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UGC NET October 2022 English (Shift-I) — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET October 2022 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. Who is the author of A Literature of Their Own? · Ans: B
2. Match List I with List II: · Ans: D
3. Subramani's Fantasy Eaters (1988) is a · Ans: B
4. Who is the author of the poem "The House of Fame"? · Ans: B
5. Which of the following denote the three phases of literary feminism according to Elaine Showalter? · Ans: B
6. Who among the following has authored The Revenger's Tragedy? · Ans: A
7. The "Ancient and Modern Quarrel" in Western Literary Criticism appears during · Ans: C
8. Find the correct explanation of the term "Aporia": · Ans: A
9. Canadian Multiculturalism Act was passed in the year: · Ans: D
10. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option: · Ans: B
11. Identify the one that has not been paired correctly. · Ans: B
12. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option: · Ans: A
13. 'The Deserted Village' by Oliver Goldsmith · Ans: B
14. Which among the following are appropriate about Latin American Literature? · Ans: D
15. Match List I with List II: · Ans: C
16. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated". Which of the following texts glorifies this as its predominant theme? · Ans: A
17. Identify the correct combination among the following: · Ans: A
18. Identify the novels that were published in the 1980s and the 1990s: · Ans: B
19. Which of the following observations are true about Roland Barthes' contributions to literary theory? · Ans: C
20. What does Aristotle mean by the phrase "language with pleasurable accessories" in his definition of tragedy? · Ans: C
21. "Should poets bicycle-pump the human heart or squash it flat? Man's love is of man's life a thing apart: Girls aren't like that." The above lines are written by: · Ans: B
22. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer. · Ans: A
23. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
24. J. Hillis Miller, one of the leading exponents of deconstruction, makes a deconstructionist reading of which of the following poems of P.B. Shelley? · Ans: A
25. Identify the correct combination among the following: · Ans: B
26. Identify the poems termed as "pastoral elegies": · Ans: C
27. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer. · Ans: C
28. Choose the right chronological sequence of publication of the following novels by Margaret Atwood. · Ans: B
29. When was Haruki Murakami's Men Without Women published? · Ans: C
30. In which year did Miles Coverdale translate The Old Testament of The Bible? · Ans: C
31. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option: · Ans: A
32. Which of the following are Plato's main objections against poetry? · Ans: A
33. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer. · Ans: C
34. Match List I with List II: · Ans: D
35. The Writer and the World by V.S. Naipaul is a · Ans: C
36. Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B. Shelley? · Ans: A
37. Which writer does not belong to the Angry Young Men Movement? · Ans: C
38. Match List I with List II: · Ans: A
39. A.L. Tennyson in the following lines: "Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns" · Ans: B
40. Which of these statements are true in the context of Neuro-Linguistic programming? · Ans: B
41. Match List I (Line) with List II (Figure of speech): · Ans: B
42. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work): · Ans: B
43. Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th Century have been represented in which of the following novels? · Ans: B
44. Which among the following is appropriate about Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's article "Literature in Schools"? · Ans: D
45. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer. · Ans: A
46. Gaiutra Bahadur wrote an autobiographical work titled · Ans: C
47. Stuart Hall belongs to _______ school of cultural studies. · Ans: C
48. Kimberle Crenshaw's term "intersectionality" is widely used for · Ans: A
49. Which of these graphic narratives depict political crisis? · Ans: C
50. Match the following works of Edward Brathwaite according to their year of publication: · Ans: A
51. Who is the author of the essay "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985)? · Ans: D
52. Which among the following are true about Harold Pinter? · Ans: B
53. Which among the following is true about the Tractarian Movement? · Ans: D
54. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option: · Ans: A
55. What is the correct sequence of the following feminist texts? · Ans: C
56. Match List I (Poet) with List II (Work): · Ans: D
57. Read the Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option: · Ans: B
58. The heroic couplet is a pair of · Ans: B
59. Consumerism is a major theme in which of the following works? · Ans: C
60. Match List I (Play) with List II (Year): · Ans: A
61. Philip Sidney's Arcadia was influenced by · Ans: A
62. Who said, "There is, there can be and there ought to be the difference between the language of prose and metrical composition"? · Ans: C
63. Who among the following were Poet Laureates of England? · Ans: D
64. Which of the following critics is associated with the term "contrapuntal reading"? · Ans: B
65. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature? · Ans: C
66. Which of the following concepts are associated with Bhartrhari's theory of 'Sphota'? · Ans: B
67. Which of the following theorists identifies "metaphor" and "metonymy" as two fundamental structures of language? · Ans: D
68. According to Roland Barthes, which of the following "Codes" are common to all narratives? · Ans: D
69. Who among the following critics appropriates the following statement by Karl Marx? "They cannot represent themselves: they must be represented". · Ans: D
70. Which of the following is not true about "Lyrical Ballads"? · Ans: D
71. Tolkappiyam is a book of grammar and poetics written in the _____ language. · Ans: B
72. "It is significant that the productive capacities of this Third Space have a colonial or post colonial provenance." The above lines have been written by · Ans: D
73. Which of the collections of poems are not written by Meena Alexander? · Ans: D
74. Match List I (Text) with List II (Critic): · Ans: C
75. Which of these are not forms of flash fiction? · Ans: D
76. Identify the combination(s) that belong to the genre of sci-fi/speculative fiction. · Ans: B
77. Besides being a playwright, who among the following has translated Homer? · Ans: D
78. Which of the following is not a part of Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy? · Ans: D
79. What is meant by "Corporate author" in research? · Ans: C
80. Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham's Theatrical company? · Ans: B
81. Which of these are correct combinations of the works by Doris Lessing and their respective themes? · Ans: C
82. Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution made the provision for use of English, alongside Hindi, for official purposes, for fifteen years? · Ans: C
83. Under the Net (1954) is written by · Ans: B
84. Who among the following, in the article "Fleshly School of Poetry", attacked the Pre-Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti? · Ans: C
85. Find out the correct sequence of the publications of the following books: · Ans: C
86. The book 'Women Beware Women' was published in the year · Ans: C
87. Identify the correct ones among the following: · Ans: C
88. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer. · Ans: A
89. Identify the correct combinations: · Ans: B
90. Identify the correct pairs: · Ans: B
91. Which of the following is a correct interpretation? · Ans: D
92. In the context of the above passage, which is the closest to being true: · Ans: C
93. The adult causality is about · Ans: B
94. The word "demiurge" connotes · Ans: C
95. The world of objects makes the child · Ans: D
96. The poem, "Mr Bleaney", is written in a _______ form. · Ans: C
97. In the third line 'They' refers to · Ans: B
98. Mr. Bleaney was the ______ of the house. · Ans: B
99. According to the speaker Mr. Bleaney was · Ans: D
100. The poem "Mr. Bleaney" deals with the portrayal of his _________. · Ans: D

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