UGC NET English Exam Paper 2 2021

Q.1) The “principal worries of our life” follow us if we: (a) Detach our self from family life. (b) Are deep into buying and selling. (c) Mentally abstain from hustle and bustle. (d) Are in to schools of philosophy. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.2) Which of the following best captures the theme of the passage?

Q.3) The mistake human beings make is to:

Directions (Q. no. 4 to 6): Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow: A Prayer for Old Age God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting-bone; Thinks in a marrow-bone; From all that makes a wise old man That can be praised of all; O what am I that I should not seem For the song’s sake a food? I pray-for fashion’s word is out And prayer comes round againThat I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. W.B Yeats______ Q.4) Thoughts t rue for all time are:

Q.5) In the second stanza the poet thinks of:

Q.6) Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet ?

Directions (Q.no. 7 to 8): Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow: The earth was made for Dombey and son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them: A.D had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombey – and son. Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son________ Q.7) What is the ‘system’ of which Domney and son were the cent re?

Q.8) The whole description is an example of:

Directions (Q.no. 9 to 10): Read the following ext ract and answer the questions that follow: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow ‘st the worm not silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. —Ha! here’s three one’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Shakespeare, King Lear ________ Q.9) Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?

Q.10) ‘Is man no more than this?’ means:

Q.11) Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature?

Q.12) What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from t raditional theat re?

Q.13) Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors?

Q.14) Which two of the following are words by I.A Richards? (a) Concepts of Criticism (b) Science and Poetry (c) The philosophy of Rhetoric (d) English Literature In our time and the university

Q.15) In “The function of Criticism at the present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism?

Q.16) According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is: (a) An interlocking structure (b) A System of constant change. (c) A system of signs. (d) A self-standing formation.

Q.17) What was the cent re set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?

.18) Which of the following statements are t rue of English as used in India? (a) India is counted among the largest English – speaking communities in the world. (b) No group, community or population of Indians claims English as its mother tongue. (c) More than fifty per cent of Indians speak English Fluently. (d) English is the country’s principal language of commerce. (e) With the growing stature of Hindi as lingua franca, it has supplanted English as the link language between the central government and the states.

Q.19) Match list-I with list-II: List-I (Poem) (a) “The Road not taken “ (b) “Tonight, I can Write the Saddest lines” (c) “I hear America Singing” (d) “I, too, Sing America” List-II (Poet) I. Pablo Neruda II. Robert Frost III. Langston Hughes IV. Walt Whitman Choose the correct Answer from the options given below:

Q.20) Usage in “you have hissed the mystery lectures” is an example of:

Q.21) Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel?

Q.22) Arrange the following in their chronological order: (a) English replaces Persian as official language of the company. (b) Arrival of Charles Grant in India. (c) Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and madras. (d) Construction of Fort William in Calcutta. Choose the correct answer the options given below

Q.23) Which of the following qualify for the label ‘cultural intermediary’ in the context of a commercial film? (a) The film magazine columnist (b) The director (c) Fan clubs (d) The producer Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.24) Given below are two statements: Statement I: All research being original and uninspired, it is rare for a researcher to begin a project by deriving ideas from predecessors. Statement II: Studying and documenting past work on a research topic stifles the continual expansion of human knowledge. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Q.25) Which of these are t rue of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society? (a) It critiques the idea of high culture. (b) It overlooks the idea of high culture. (c) It defines culture as a way of life. (d) It equates culture with science. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.26) Who is the author of the t ruth about Me: A Hijra Life Story? [1]

Q.27) Which of these count ries does Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals, “focus on primarily?

Q.28) The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is:

Q.29) In “The life of Cowley” which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the ‘metaphysical poets? (a) They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination. (b) Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses. (c) They neither copied nature nor life. (d) They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.

Q.30) Match List-I with List-II: List-I (Book) (a) English, August (b) In Custody (c) Such a Long Journey (d) Funny Boy List-II (Author) I. Shyam Selvadurai II. Anita Desai III. Rohinton Mistry IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Q.31) Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history: (a) The Imagist poets (b) The Cavalier poets (c) The Movement Poets (d) The Lake poets

Q.32) Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ? (a) Estragon (b) Pozzo (c) Bassanio (d) Murphy Choose the correct answer from the options below:

Q.33) Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright ? (a) “Meditation on a bone” (b) “Imperial Adam” (c) “Woman to Man” (d) “The Old Prison” Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.34) Who, in “The world as India,” argues that English can be the only common “unifying language” of India?

Q.35) Match List -1 with List-II: List-I (Writer) (a) Homi Bhabha (b) T.S. Eliot (c) Roland Barthes (d) John Fiske List-II (Book) I. Reading the popular II. The Location of culture III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture IV. Image-Music-Text Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Q.36) Which among the following are examples of the Kunstler roman? (a) The Portrait of a Lady (b) David Copperfield (c) Tom Jones (d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.37) With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally associated? (a) Neo-classic (b) Symbolist (c) Modernist (d) Postmodernist Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.38) Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are:

Q.39) The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in:

Q.40) Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication. (a) Longman’s Magazine (b) Cornhill Magazine (c) Blackwood’s Magazine (d) Bentley’s Miscellany Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.41) Which of these generally taken to be t rue of cultural studies? (a) It is politically engaged. (b) It privileges text over context. (c) It has a symbiotic relationship with formalism. (d) It studies the means of production of a text. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.42) Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position?

Q.43) Who among the following says that ideology is a representation of the imaginary relationship of individual to their real condition of existence” ?

Q.44) Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations without altering the original title?

Q.45) In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to “Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul” ?

Q.46) Match list-I and list-II: List-I (Text) (a) Advancement of learning (b) Past and Present (c) English Traits (d) Illness as Metaphor List-II (Author) I. Susan Sontag II. Francis Bacon III. Thomas Carlyle IV. R.W. Emerson Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Q.47) Given Below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labeled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text. Assertion (R): The ‘Dear Reader’, invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader. In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Q.48) Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books: (a) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (b) Kiran Desai, The inheritance of Loss (c) Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence (d) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.49) Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with ‘speech acts?

Q.50) Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia’s, The Other side of Silence primarily seek to do? (a) To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide (b) To foreground a personal history of the partition (c) To foreground the partition as an event more tragic that the Holocaust (d) To find and unite families separated at the partition Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.51) Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays?

Q.52) Match list-I with list-II: List-I (Book) (a) Anniversaries (b) The Temple (c) The Rehearsal Traspros’d (d) Pindarique Odes List-II (Poet) I. Abraham Cowley II. John Donne III. George Herbert IV. Andrew Marvell Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Q.53) Who is the author of Radiant Textuality?

Q.54) Which of these may be said to be t rue of the journal published from Bowling Green university from 1969, which carried essays on spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films? (a) It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture. (b) It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture. (c) It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist. (d) It sought to break down the dominance of ‘high’ culture. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.55) How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell’s “Horatian Ode” ?

Q.56) Match list-1 with List-II: List-I (a) A Handful of Dust (b) Brighton Rock (c) Howard’s End (d) The Plumed Serpent (e) Those Barren Leaves List-II I. E.M. Forster II. Evelyn Waugh III. D.H. Lawrence IV. Aldous Huxley V. Graham Greene Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Q.57) Given below are two statements: Statement I: A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other’s language. Statement II: Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Q.58) Who among the following has coined the terms, ‘eco- feminism’?

Q.59) Who wrote the short story, “The volter” ?

Q.60) Which two of the following fallacious evaluations of poet ry according to Matthew Arnold’s “The study of poet ry” ? (a) Contextual estimate (b) Personal estimate (c) Comparative estimate (d) Historic estimate

Q.61) In his recasting the canon of English poet ry in new bearings in English poet ry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis?

Q.62) Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th century real-life character, Vlad the Impaler?

Q.63) Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child ‘s first language acquisition: (a) Holophrastic (b) Babbling (c) Telegraphic speech (d) Cooling Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.64) Which of the following is a dead language?

Q.65) Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with?

Q.66) Who among the following posits the t radition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering is as both a blessing and a curve?

Q.67) Who among the following was of the view that poet ry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore t rivial?

Q.68) Who is the author of “The Typology of Detective Fiction” ?

Q.69) Which two are the works of Ted Hughes? (a) Wild track (b) Wodwo (c) Lupercal (d) Jack Straw’s Castle Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.70) Arrange the following poems by W.B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication? (a) “The Wild Swans at Coole” (b) “The Second coming” (c) “Among School Children” (d) “Adam’s Curse” Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.71) Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication: (a) Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (b) Coleridge and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (c) Pablo Neruda’s Canto General (d) Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.72) Which of the following is t rue of mass media?

Q.73) Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets” ?

Q.74) Who among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature? (a) Elton John (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Bob Dylan (d) Bob Marley Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.75) Match List-I with List-II. List-I (Author) (a) Robert Browning (b) S.T. Coleridge (c) A.W. Pinero (d) Alfred Tennyson (e) William Wordsworth List-II I. Queen Mary II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray III. Remorse IV. The Borderers V. Strafford Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Q.76) Who wrote the Labyrinth of Solitude?

Q.77) Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory: (a) Phallogocentrism (b) Locutionary Act (c) Interpellation (d) Interpretive community Choose the correct answer from the option given below

Q.78) Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Negugi Wa Thiongo object to be in 1968? (a) The primacy of English literatures and cultures. (b) The centrality of Africa in the Department of English. (c) The primacy of orature in the syllabus (d) The focus on the study of the historic continuity of English Literature Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.79) Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style?

Q.80) Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxes’?

Q.81) Given below are two statements: Statement I: Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favour of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified. Statement II: Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers. In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Q.82) Which of the following are t rue of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson? (a) Jonson’s physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have and precedent. (b) Taking after the practice of the Moralities and interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae patronymically. (c) Chapman’s All Fools and Middleton’s A Trick To catch the old one belong to the genre of Comedy of Humors that Jonson is said to have pioneered. (d) John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson is writing for a children’s company of players. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.83) Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India? (a) Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series (b) Murray Colonial and Home Library Series (c) Colonial Library Series by Macmillan (d) Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.84) Which of the following are novels by David Lodge? (a) The British Museum is Falling down (b) The Seven Sisters (c) Changing Places (d) Nice Work (e) Empire of the Sun Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.85) Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky? (a) Syntactic Structures (b) Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour (c) Language and Society (d) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (e) The pragmatics of Politeness Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.86) Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of The MLA Handbook? (a) Puig, Manuel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991. (b) Kincaid, Jamaica. “In history.” Callaloo, vol.24, no.2, Spring 2001, pp .620-26. (c) Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The future of the Book. U of California P, 1996. (d) Wellek, Rene. A history of modern Criticism, 1750-1950, Yale UP,1986 Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.87) Which of these departments did the Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities? (a) Arabic (b) English (c) French (d) Law Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.88) Which character in Hamlet utters the line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” ?

Q.89) Match List-I with List-II: List-I (a) The Lie of the Land (b) Masks of Conquest (c) Rethinking English (d) This Gift of English List-II I. Alok Mukherjee II. Rajeswari Sunder Ranjan III. Gauri Viswanathan IV. Swathi Joshi Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Q.90) Match List-I with List-II: List-I (Library/Institute) (a) Connemara Public Library (b) Dhwanyaloka (c) Bhandarkar Oriental Institute (d) Asiatic Society List-II (Location) I. Kolkata II. Chennai III. Mysore IV. Pune Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

Q.91) Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic imagination four Essays? (a) “From the history of Novelistic Discourse” (b) “Discourse in the Novel” (c) “Romance and Novel” (d) “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel” Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.92) Which Shakespearean comedy is st ructured as a play within a play?

Q.93) Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Matter art as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology?

Q.94) Which of the following narratives cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author” ?

Q.95) Which two among the following condemned the t ransportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771? (a) Samuel Johnson (b) Alexander Pope (c) Horace Walpole (d) Thomas Gray Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.96) Arrange the following characters in the chronological in which they appeared in Indian literature? (a) Praneshacharya (Samskara) (b) Sakuni (Mahabharata) (c) Rusty (The Room on the Roof) (d) Gobar (Godan) Choose the correct answer from the options given below: