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UGC NET Paper 2English

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2023 Q1

"What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallowed Reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid?" These lines are...

17th Century/answer key
2023 Q1

"When nature prompted and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then Israel's monarch after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives an...

17th Century/answer key
2023 Q2

Which of the following poems is written by Oliver Goldsmith?

18th Century / Augustan/answer key
2023 Q2

Who among the following praised Chaucer's translation of Roman de la rose?

Old & Middle English/answer key
2023 Q3

Tribute to Papa is a book of poems written by

Post-Independence/answer key
2023 Q3

For The Unfallen is a book of poems written by

Modern/answer key
2023 Q4

"The Princess: A Medley" by Tennyson is

Victorian/answer key
2023 Q4

Which of the following poems is not written by Sylvia Plath?

Postwar & Postmodern/answer key
2023 Q5

Robert Burns was born in

/answer key
2023 Q5

Which of the following works is NOT written by P. B) Shelley?

Romantic Period/answer key
2023 Q6

In whose poem the readers meet Aunt Jennifer's tigers?

Postwar & Postmodern
2023 Q6

Who among the following characters personifies necessity in P. B) Shelley's Prometheus Unbound?

Romantic Period/answer key
2023 Q7

Name the playwright who has written Larins Sahib.

Post-Independence/answer key
2023 Q7

Who among the following, after watching the performance of William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, observed that "it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever...

Renaissance & Elizabethan/answer key
2023 Q8

Who among the following has composed the lyrical drama Hellas?

Romantic Period/answer key
2023 Q8

Name the playwright who wrote the play Epicene, or the Silent Woman?

Renaissance & Elizabethan/answer key
2023 Q9

Name the playwright who composed the play A Woman Killed with Kindness.

Renaissance & Elizabethan/answer key
2023 Q10

Choose from the following options the correct combination of playwrights who contributed to the movement called "Kitchen Sink Drama".

Postmodern/answer key
2023 Q10

Name the celebrated actor who played the leading role in the first production of John Osborne's The Entertainer (1957).

Postmodern/answer key
2023 Q11

Choose from the following options the correct combination of the plays which made significant use of expressionistic techniques:

Modern/answer key
2023 Q11

Which of the following statements holds true in regard to "Sentimental Comedy"?

Genres/answer key
2023 Q12

Apart from Bertolt Brecht others who have influenced Epic theatre are:

Genres
2023 Q12

"I recognize that its heroine is a little prig and its hero a pompous ass, but I do not care." About which novel of Jane Austen is this statement made by Somerset Maugham?

Romantic Period/answer key
2023 Q13

The theological treatise Ecclesiastical Polity was written by

Renaissance & Elizabethan/answer key
2023 Q13

In which year was R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island published?

Victorian
2023 Q14

Who wrote the popular instruction manual for fishermen titled The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation?

17th Century/answer key
2023 Q14

Which of the following novels is NOT written by Amitav Ghosh?

Post-Independence/answer key
2023 Q15

What did Matthew Arnold imply by the term "Hebraism" in his Culture and Anarchy?

Victorian
2023 Q15

Which among the following is NOT an American Slave narrative?

American Renaissance/answer key
2023 Q16

Who among the following theorists has written on affective economies?

20th Century
2023 Q16

The journal Scrutiny was founded in 1932 by

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q17

Samuel Pepys' claim to fame rests on his

17th Century/answer key
2023 Q17

Who among the following is NOT a Yale critic?

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q18

Dr Primrose is a character in

/answer key
2023 Q19

"So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling, and a pint of be...

Victorian/answer key
2023 Q20

Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth was published in

20th Century
2023 Q20

Which of the following novels is written by Patrick White?

Modern/answer key
2023 Q21

Which among the following is NOT written by Kamala Markandaya?

Post-Independence/answer key
2023 Q22

Who among the following were revaluing 'the masses' as sources and subjects of literature?

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q23

Who among the following theorists has written on narrative empathy?

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q24

The science that systematically studies the function of signs is known as

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q25

Who among the following first framed a theory of general hermeneutics?

20th Century
2023 Q26

Roland Barthes' Image, Music, Text was published in

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q27

Who among the following distinguished the 'constatives' from the 'performatives'?

Semantics & Pragmatics/answer key
2023 Q30

Todd Kachru in "Three Circles of English" observes that English speaking countries are separated into three groups. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Sociolinguistics
2023 Q31

Which one of the following is false about V. S. Naipaul?

Post-Independence/answer key
2023 Q32

According to Stuart Hall, the concept of played a seminal role in Cultural Studies.

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q33

The book Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism was jointly edited by

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q33

Which of the following is true in the context of New Criticism?

20th Century/answer key
2023 Q34

The pamphlet The Power of Love (1643) proclaiming the importance of brotherhood as a means of achieving a radical change in social relationships was written by.

17th Century/answer key