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UGC NET June 2024 Re-Exam English (Shift-I) — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET June 2024 Re-Exam English (Shift-I) (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

1. Arrange the following detective novels of Agatha Christie in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: D
2. Arrange the following texts in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: A
3. Arrange the following texts of critical theory in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: C
4. Who among the following stated that "the true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty which is truth, and a truth which is beauty, is the aim of both"? · Ans: C
5. Identify the plays that John Fletcher wrote in collaboration with Francis Beaumont: · Ans: A
6. Which among the following novelists remarked that "falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult... it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth even about your own immediate feelings"? · Ans: B
7. Which of the following parameters are emphasised in the MLA Handbook's (9th Edition) chapter titled "Principles of Inclusive Language"? · Ans: C
8. Who among the following defined taste as "that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike"? · Ans: A
9. Which of the following statements are true about Bhavabhuti's Uttararamacharita? · Ans: D
10. Which of the following citations of an article published in a journal is in the correct format according to the MLA Handbook (9th Edition)? · Ans: D
11. Arrange the following campus novels in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: B
12. Who among the following observed that "the artistic critic, like the mystic, is an antinomian always"? · Ans: B
13. Match List I (Quote) with List II (Novelist): · Ans: B
14. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's autobiographical novel? · Ans: B
15. Match List I (Concept) with List II (Theorist): · Ans: C
16. Who among the following published a series of essays titled The New Criticism? · Ans: A
17. Which among the following critics stated that "the object of study in literary science is not literature but 'literariness', that is, what makes a given work a literary work"? · Ans: B
18. Match List I (Book) with List II (Author): · Ans: B
19. Sir Thomas Browne's longest work, Vulgar Errors, is about: · Ans: A
20. Match List I (Linguistic/Grammatical term) with List II (Meaning/Definition): · Ans: B
21. Alexander Pope's famous quote "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" appears in which one of the following works? · Ans: A
22. Arrange the following works in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: A
23. What was the immediate motivation for Philip Sidney to write An Apologie for Poetrie as a defense of poetry? · Ans: C
24. Which among the following is not a state of human mental disposition as posited by Jacques Lacan? · Ans: A
25. Who among the following are the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature? · Ans: D
26. The poetic lines "There is one great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead" appear in: · Ans: B
27. Arrange the following works of Raymond Williams in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: B
28. Which of the following stories deal with the theme of partition? · Ans: C
29. Match List I (Term) with List II (Definition): · Ans: D
30. Which of the following nineteenth-century novels portray disabled characters? · Ans: B
31. What does an 'eponymous' character mean? · Ans: B
32. According to Dhananjaya, five junctures (Samdhi) arise from the five elements of the plot. What is the correct sequence of these junctures? · Ans: B
33. Who among the following called John Dryden the father of English Criticism and affirmed that modern English prose began with Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy? · Ans: C
34. Arrange the following children's books in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: A
35. Which of the following works are categorised under science fiction and its neighbours? · Ans: A
36. Match List I (Postcolonial Writer) with List II (Text): · Ans: B
37. Which of the following statements are correct? · Ans: B
38. Match List I (Cultural Critic/Theorist) with List II (Work): · Ans: C
39. Which statement among the following rightly defines an 'epithet'? · Ans: B
40. A 'palindrome' is: · Ans: C
41. Who among the following is the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? · Ans: D
42. Who among the following writers have played a significant role in the Australian Aboriginal Movements? · Ans: A
43. Arrange the following philosophers/theorists in the correct chronological order of their birth: · Ans: A
44. Who among the following writers were associated with the Harlem Renaissance? · Ans: C
45. Which text among the following is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women? · Ans: A
46. Which among the following is not a play written by Eugene O'Neill? · Ans: C
47. Match List I (Dalit Writer) with List II (Language): · Ans: C
48. Match List I (Theatre) with List II (Leading figure/founder): · Ans: A
49. Match List I (Woman Novelist) with List II (Novel): · Ans: C
50. Which statements are true about Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales? · Ans: B
51. Which of the following statements are correct? · Ans: D
52. Who among the following invented 'inscape' and 'instress'? · Ans: D
53. Arrange the following works of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: C
54. Arrange the following plays of G.B. Shaw in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: B
55. Arrange the following works of 'Black British' writers in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: B
56. Match List I (Diaspora Writer) with List II (Work): · Ans: D
57. Identify the historical plays not written by Shakespeare: · Ans: D
58. Which among the following are not the genuine sources of the sublime as cited by Longinus? · Ans: B
59. Which among the following statements are true about the Panchatantra? · Ans: C
60. Match List I (Book/Collection of Poems) with List II (Poet): · Ans: C
61. Who among the following was not associated with the Bloomsbury Group? · Ans: D
62. Which of the following writers fall under the category of LGBTQ+? · Ans: B
63. Which periodical was started by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele after the closing of The Spectator in 1712? · Ans: B
64. Arrange the following works by South Asian writers in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: D
65. Which of the following works are graphic narratives? · Ans: A
66. Which statements rightly define or describe 'utopia' and 'dystopia'? · Ans: C
67. Who among the following is the author of The Implied Reader and The Act of Reading? · Ans: B
68. Match List I (Comedy) with List II (Author): · Ans: B
69. Who among the following was not associated with the Lake School of Poetry? · Ans: C
70. The poem "France: An Ode" is written by: · Ans: B
71. Which among the following is not a novel written by Jean Rhys? · Ans: D
72. Match List I (Author) with List II (Text): · Ans: B
73. Who among the following did not belong to the 'Angry Young Men' generation of British playwrights/novelists? · Ans: D
74. How many knights feature in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene? · Ans: B
75. What was the name of the first ship to transport indentured labourers from India to Trinidad and Tobago in 1845? · Ans: B
76. Who among the following was known as 'The Lady of Christ's' during his college days at Cambridge? · Ans: C
77. Arrange the following novels in the correct chronological order of their publication: · Ans: C
78. Arrange the following Indian writers in the correct chronological order of their birth: · Ans: C
79. Who among the following friends of Everyman, the protagonist of the best-known morality play, stays with him when he leaves the world to face Death? · Ans: C
80. The first regular English tragedy Gorboduc contains five acts; the first three were written by Thomas Norton. Identify the author who wrote the remaining two acts: · Ans: C
81. Which of the following definitions/statements are correct? · Ans: A
82. Who among the following English translators of the Bible was burnt to death for his beliefs, yet is remembered for his careful and important work on translation? · Ans: B
83. Which statement among the following rightly defines 'an invective'? · Ans: A
84. Who among the following coined the term 'Stream of Consciousness'? · Ans: C
85. Which among the following statements are true about 'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian'? · Ans: A
86. According to the MLA Handbook, the mechanics of prose refer to technical matters that writers must follow. These include: · Ans: B
87. Match List I (Prize/Recognition) with List II (Year officially started): · Ans: D
88. How are words from a language other than English written in a research paper? · Ans: B
89. While documenting, when is a block quotation used in prose? · Ans: A
90. In his work The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives and sought to declare the death of: · Ans: C
91. A major theme of the poem can best be summarized as: · Ans: B
92. Which one of the following is not a metaphor employed in the poem? · Ans: D
93. The poem is most similar in style and form to: · Ans: B
94. Which one of the following lines indicates the destructive character of words? · Ans: B
95. Which one of the following poetic devices is used in the opening of the poem? · Ans: B
96. Which 'will of God' is the author referring to in the line "I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will"? · Ans: D
97. What, according to the passage, is needed to spread peace and love in the world? · Ans: B
98. Which phrase rightly encapsulates the central message of the passage? · Ans: B
99. What kind of passage is this? · Ans: B
100. What does 'a real war' signify in the phrase "a real war against war"? · Ans: D

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