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

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET June 2024 Re-Exam 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. Match List I (Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: D
2. Kai Po Che! is the screen adaptation of which one of the following novels by Chetan Bhagat? · Ans: A
3. The term 'abstract poem': · Ans: B
4. Identify the essayist who made the assertion: "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." · Ans: B
5. Match List I (Australian Aboriginal Text) with List II (Author): · Ans: C
6. Who said that an author has no claim to original thought but only to the apt presentation of what was already being thought by others? · Ans: A
7. Friendship's Garland (1871) is a sequel to which one of the following works by Matthew Arnold? · Ans: A
8. Match List I (Work) with List II (Author): · Ans: A
9. Absalom, Absalom! is: · Ans: A
10. Who among the following women writers wrote the first female Dalit autobiography? · Ans: C
11. Which of the following assertions is not true with respect to 'cultural intermediaries'? · Ans: C
12. Who said that language is a system of signs whose parts can and must be considered in their synchronic solidarity? · Ans: A
13. Sherlock Holmes, the greatest of all fictional detectives, made his first appearance in which one of the following by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? · Ans: B
14. Match List I (Event) with List II (Year): · Ans: D
15. The Greek word 'Polis' refers to: · Ans: A
16. Which text is considered to be the first book of poetry published by an Aboriginal author? · Ans: C
17. Match List I (Poem) with List II (Indian Poet): · Ans: C
18. Big Daddy is a fictional character in: · Ans: B
19. Which one of the following plays mocks the Restoration drama of Dryden and Thomas Otway? · Ans: D
20. Chronologically arrange the following in order of their publication or occurrence: · Ans: C
21. Neo-Platonism was founded by: · Ans: C
22. Which research treats the physical and social world as objects based on standardized data? · Ans: C
23. Which among the following texts are not written by Mary Wollstonecraft? · Ans: D
24. Which one of the following is not a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors? · Ans: D
25. Who among the following were associated with the Metaphysical Society founded in 1869 by Sir James Knowles? · Ans: D
26. Match List I (Postcolonial term) with List II (Coined/Employed by): · Ans: D
27. In The Postmodern Condition Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives. The one whose death he above all sought to declare was: · Ans: D
28. Phonetics refers to: · Ans: A
29. Arrange the works of Toni Morrison in the order of chronology of their publication: · Ans: C
30. Match List I (Disability Narrative) with List II (Writer): · Ans: C
31. Three satirical stories by W.M. Thackeray, portraying marriage and the exploitation of one partner by the other, are titled as: · Ans: A
32. In The Long Revolution, Raymond Williams conducted a long-range study of 350 canonical writers drawn from the Oxford introduction to English literature. For which period? · Ans: D
33. Which one of the following plays by Henrik Ibsen was described as 'an open sewer'? · Ans: C
34. Arrange the following novels by Chinua Achebe in order of their publication: · Ans: C
35. Who among the following wrote that "Poetry is not a branch of authorship: it is the stuff of which one life is made... for all that is worth remembering in life is the poetry of it"? · Ans: C
36. Arrange the following Black American writers chronologically, in order of their birth: · Ans: B
37. Match List I (Novel) with List II (Novelist): · Ans: B
38. Which of the following assertions or assumptions are not true regarding cultures of space? · Ans: C
39. From which book of Milton's Paradise Lost is the epigraph of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein taken, when Adam asks God "Did I request thee, maker, from my clay to mould me man?" · Ans: C
40. Chronologically arrange the playwrights in order of their birth: · Ans: D
41. The term 'Post-modernism' was used in 1917 by the German philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz to describe: · Ans: A
42. Who among the following are writers of wordless graphic narratives? · Ans: C
43. Women in Love is a sequel to which one of the following novels by D.H. Lawrence? · Ans: D
44. Sequence the following works of Dostoevsky in the order of their publication: · Ans: B
45. A manuscript having an overlap with earlier papers by the same authors, or by some of the present authors, is termed as: · Ans: B
46. Who among the following are not associated with lesbian and gay studies? · Ans: B
47. Which among the following is said to be the first fiction magazine, created by Hugo Gernsback? · Ans: D
48. The salient tendencies of Hellenistic philosophy are: · Ans: B
49. The property of research to replicate the same results using the same technique is termed as: · Ans: B
50. The terms 'social fact' and 'collective consciousness' in the context of language were used by: · Ans: A
51. Which one of the following novels by E.M. Forster is about 'homosexual love'? · Ans: C
52. Wittgenstein's statement 'Limits of language define the limits of thought' means: · Ans: A
53. Chronologically arrange the Anglo-Indian writers in order of their birth: · Ans: B
54. Which of the following is not a Dalit narrative written by Perumal Murugan? · Ans: A
55. Chronologically arrange the following works in order of their publication: · Ans: A
56. Who among the following wrote "Plan of a Novel"? · Ans: C
57. The key principles of research design, brought together in material on measurement principles, sampling, case study, survey and experimentation, are termed as: · Ans: B
58. Place the following works in ascending order of their publication year: · Ans: B
59. The Latin epic Aeneid by Virgil: · Ans: A
60. John Dryden's Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay is a dialogue among Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander, where Neander represents: · Ans: B
61. Match List I (Author) with List II (Nobel Prize Year): · Ans: C
62. Things as They Are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams was written as a call to end: · Ans: C
63. Chronologically arrange the fictional writings of Margaret Atwood: · Ans: D
64. Who wrote the poem "Poem in Praise of Menstruation"? · Ans: D
65. M.H. Abrams's The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition: · Ans: C
66. Who among the following were not associated with the Kit-Cat Club? · Ans: C
67. Which of the following is considered to be the first Indian novel in English? · Ans: A
68. Who among the following American writers was the first Black American to become the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress? · Ans: C
69. The term 'Collective Unconscious': · Ans: B
70. Which one of the following statements about the 'Booker Prize' is not correct? · Ans: C
71. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
72. Arrange the following plays by Shakespeare in order of their production or publication: · Ans: D
73. Which one of the following English novels received the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2023? · Ans: A
74. Match List I (Term) with List II (Meaning): · Ans: C
75. Plato viewed poetry as: · Ans: A
76. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche: · Ans: A
77. Who made the following statement in defense of santarasa: "the eight rasas are like eight gods, and the santa is like their highest centre, Siva"? · Ans: D
78. Akkarmashi (The Outcaste) is the autobiography of which one of the following Dalit writers? · Ans: B
79. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
80. Arrange the following plays in order of their publication: · Ans: D
81. In his work The Dialogic Imagination, Mikhail Bakhtin: · Ans: B
82. Who wrote the book The History of European Languages? · Ans: A
83. Match List I (Concept/Theory) with List II (Developed by): · Ans: B
84. Match List I (Term) with List II (Meaning): · Ans: C
85. Chronologically arrange the novels of Salman Rushdie in order of their publication: · Ans: B
86. Chronologically arrange the fictional writings of R.K. Narayan in order of their publication: · Ans: C
87. Which of the following assumptions is not true with regard to the theory of standpoint? · Ans: D
88. Match List I (Rhyme) with List II (Author): · Ans: D
89. A hypothesis made during or after the research work is over is known as: · Ans: B
90. Arrange the following partition-based films in order of their release or production: · Ans: A
91. What does the phrase 'red signals sent out' signify? · Ans: B
92. The phrases 'oceanic eyes' and 'absent eyes' are examples of: · Ans: A
93. Identify the mood of the poem: · Ans: A
94. What is the central theme of the poem? · Ans: B
95. Identify the type of imagery used in the poem: · Ans: A
96. Which among the following is true in the context of the given paragraph? · Ans: B
97. What does the word 'guarded' signify? · Ans: C
98. What tone does the passage predominantly convey? · Ans: C
99. What is the primary theme of the paragraph? · Ans: C
100. What helps in eliminating suspicion? · Ans: B

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