UGC NET March 2023 Morning Shift

51. Which of the following works have been written by Thomas Carlyle?

A) Of Heroes and Hero-Worship

B) The French Revolution

C) Of Human Bondage

D) The Hour and the Man

E) Hudibras

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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1) A and B

2) A and C

3) A and D

4) A and E

 

Answer: 1

 

52. Which of the following books is written by Julia Kristeva?

A) Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

B) Illuminations

C) Syntax and Semantics

D) La révolution du langage poétique

E) The Madwoman in the Attic

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and C

2) B and A

3) A and D

4) B and E

 

Answer: 3

 

53. To which of the following theories is New Historicism indebted?

A) Marxism

B) Formalism

C) Reader-response Theory

D) Existentialism

E) Hermeneutics

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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1) A and C

2) B and A

3) A and E

4) B and C

 

Answer: 1

 

54. Which of the following statements are true about cyberpunk?

A) It is a kind of science fiction.

B) It uses postmodernist techniques and posthumanist themes.

C) Events in this novel usually take place within virtual reality.

D) It is a kind of fiction written using online platforms.

E) The first cyberpunk was written by Thomas SternE)

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

1) A, B, and D

2) A, C, and D

3) A, B, and C

4) A, C, and E

 

Answer: 3

 

55. Identify the correct pairs:

A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez – The Feast of the Goat

B) Jorge Luis Borges – The Autumn of the Patriarch

C) Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence

D) EL Doctorow – Ragtime

E) A S. Byatt – Possession

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B, and C

2) A, B, and E

3) B, C, and D

4) C, D, and E

 

Answer: 4

 

56. Which of the following books was written by Aravind Adiga?

A) The Blue Bedspread

B) Between the Assassinations

C) The House of the Blue Mangoes

D) Last Man in Tower

E) The White Tiger

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B, and C

2) B, D, and E

3) B, C, and D

4)A, C, and D

 

Answer: 2

 

57. Which among the following are correct?

A) JM Coetzee – South Africa

B) Margaret Atwood – Canada

C) Philip Roth – Australia

D) Orhan Pamuk – Turkey

E) Graham Swift – New Zealand

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B, and C

2) A, B, and D

3) B, C, and E

4) B, D, and E

 

Answer: 2

 

58. Which among the following is correct in the context of R. K Narayan?

A) His The Guide is an open-ended novel.

B) Most of the characters of his novels are from the elite section of society.

C) He wrote a short story titled “The Martyr’s Corner.”

D) He received the Booker’s prize for his novel The Vendor of Sweets.

E) Malgudi is a real-life city in Karnataka

 

Choose the correct option given below:

1) A, B, and C

2) A and C

3) A, C, and D

4) A, C, and E

 

Answer: 2

 

59. Identify the correct pairs:

A) J. C.Ransom – Criticism

B) William Empson – Seven Types of Ambiguity

C) Brooks and R. P. Warren – Understanding Poetry

D) R. P. Blackmur – In Search of the New Criticism

E) Allen Tate – The New Apologists for Poetry

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B, and C

2) A, B, and D

3) B, C, and E

4) B, D, and E

 

Answer: 1

 

60. Thomas Rymer coined the term ‘poetic justice’ to imply the following:

A) the distribution of earthly rewards and punishments in proportion to the virtue or vice of the various characters

B) literary work governed by decorum and morality

C) literary work guided by random ways things often work out in the actual world

D) the metaphysical nature of poetic experience

E) The justification of poetry to be an integral part of the Ideal republic

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and B

2) B and C

3) C and D

4) D and E

 

Answer: 1

 

61. Which among the following are written by Roland Barthes:

 

A) Allegories of Reading

B) Mythologies

C) The Pleasure of the Text

D) Some Versions of Pastoral

E) What is an Author?

Choose the correct option given below:

1) B and C

2) A and C

3) A, C, and D

4) A, C, and E

 

Answer: 1

 

62. Which of the following are correctly matched:

A) Jonathan Culler – Culture and Society

B) Raymond Williams – Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

C) Terry Eagleton – Criticism and Ideology

D) Walter Benjamin – Illuminations

E) Stanley Fish – The Implied Reader Choose the correct option:

1) B, C, and E

2) C and D

3) A, C, and D

4) B, C, and D

 

Answer: 2

 

63. Which among the following are true in the context of methods and methodologies in literary research?

A) Both are identical in nature

B) Methods are concerned with how one conducts a given piece of research.

C) Methodologies are concerned with how one conducts a given piece of research.

D) Methodologies are concerned with the perspectives one brings to bear on one’s work.

E) Methods are concerned with the perspectives one brings to bear on one’s work. Choose the correct option:

1) A, D, and E

2) B, C, and E

3) A and C

4) B and D

 

Answer: 4

 

64. According to the English Subject Centre report, skills needed for postgraduate work in English include

A) Searching skills in libraries

B) Editorial skills

C) Bibliographic skills

D) Peer management skills

E) IT skills

Choose the correct option:

1) A, C, and D

2) B, C, D, and E

3) A, B, and D

4) A, B, C, and E

 

Answer: 3 

 

65. Which of the following are possible ways of turning a topic into an argument?

A) An argument for or against an existing criticism (or critical position) in relation to the author or group of works one is studying.

B) An argument about the value of a new theoretical approach to a text or set of texts.

C) An argument about some historical or literary-historical aspect of literature

D)An argument showing how a particular theme or concept is not at all related to a group of texts.

E) An argument about the significance of only well-known authors/work. Choose the correct option:

1) A, B, and C

2) B, C, D, and E

3) A, C, and D

4) A, B, C, and D

 

Answer: 1

 

66. Match List I with List II

 

LIST I

A) Sri Aurobindo

B) Kamala Das

C) P. Lal

D) Toru Dutt

 

LIST II

I. Other Poems

II. Calcutta: A Long Poem

III. A Sheaf Gleaned in French

IV. Savitri

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

3) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

4) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

 

Answer: 2

 

67.  Match List I with List II

 

LIST I

A) Walt Whitman

B) A D Hope

C) Derek Walcott

D) Allen Ginsberg

 

LIST II

I. Howl

II. A Far Cry From Africa

III. Beat! Beat! Drums!

IV. Australia

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

2) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

3) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

4) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

 

Answer: 3

 

68. Match List I with List II

 

LIST I

A)Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

B) When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!

C) I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

D) But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For Daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

 

LIST II

I. Othello

II. King Lear

III. Macbeth

IV. Hamlet

 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

2) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

3) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

4) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III

 

Answer: 3

 

69. Match List I with List II

LIST I

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A) Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

B) Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

C) Nobody thinks, nobody cares. No beliefs, no convictions, and no enthusiasm. Just another Sunday evening.

D) Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.

 

LIST II

I. Othello              

II. A Doll’s House

III. Death of a Salesman

IV. Look Back in Anger

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-I

2) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

3) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

4) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

 

Answer: 4

 

70. Match List I with List II

 

LIST I

A) Anthropology

B) Postmodern Geography

C) Diaspora Space

D) Dasein

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LIST II

I. Edward Soja

II. Martin Heidegger

III. Claude Lévi-Strauss

IV. Avtar Brah

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

3) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

4) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

 

Answer: 3

 

71.  Match List I with List II

 

LIST I

A) The Poetics of Prose

B) Structuralist Poetics

C) The Implied Reader

D) Is There a Text in This

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LIST II

I. Wolfgang Iser

II. Tzvetan Todorov

III. Stanley Fish

IV. Jonathan Culler 

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

2) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

3) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

4) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

 

Answer: 2

 

72. Match List I with List II

 

LIST I

A) Plato

B) Aristotle

C) P. B Shelley

D) Philip Sydney

 

LIST II

I. Rhetoric

II. Symposium

III. Apology of Poetry

IV. Defence of Poetry

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A-I, B-II, C-III, DIV

2) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

3) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D–I

4) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

 

Answer: 4

 

73.  Match List I with List II

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LIST I

A) Bertrand Russell

B) Thomas Stearns Eliot

C) W.K. Wimsatt

D) Cleanth Brooks

 

LIST II

I. The Verbal Icon

II. The Well Wrought Urn

III. History of Western Philosophy

IV. The Sacred Wood

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

3) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV

4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

 

Answer: 1

 

74.  Match List I with List II

 

LIST I

A) “Negative Capability”

B) “Sweetness and light”

C) “Esemplastic”

D) “Dissociation of Sensibility”

 

LIST II

I. Matthew Arnold

II. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

III. T.S. Eliot

IV. John Keats

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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1) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

2) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

3) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

Answer: 4

 

75. Match List I with List II

 

LIST I

A) Munira

B) Nnu Ego

C) Ikemefuna

D) Maureen

 

LIST II

I. Things Fall Apart

II. Petals of Blood

III. July’s People

IV. The Joys of Motherhood

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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1) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

2) A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

3) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

4) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

Answer: 1

 

76. Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were written.

A) Lycidas

B) Hero and Leander

C) Masque of Comus

D) Paradise Lost

E) The Waste Land

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1) A, B, D, E, C

2) B, C, A, D, E

3) B, A, E, C, D

4) B, E, D, C, A

 

Answer: 2

 

77. Arrange the following poets in accordance with their years of birth.

 

A) Rudyard Kipling

B) Robert Browning

C) John Masefield

D) A E Housman

E) John Donne

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1) E, A, B, D, C

2) E, B, A, C, D

3) E, B, A, D, C

4) A, D, B, C, E

 

Answer: 3

 

78. Arrange the works in chronological sequence:

A) Rajmohan’s Wife

B) A Bend in the Ganges

C) Kanthapura

D) Untouchable

E) Distant Drum

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B, C, D, E

2) A, C, D, E, B

3) A, D, C, B, E

4) A, E, D, C, B

 

Answer: 3

 

79. Find the chronological order of publication of Charles Dickens’s novels:

A) Oliver Twist

B) Dombey and Sons

C) Pickwick Papers

D) Bleak House

E) David Copperfield

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1) A, D, C, E, B

B) E, A, D, E, B

C) A, B, C, D, E

3) B, D, C, A, E

4) C, A, B, D, E

 

Answer: 4

 

80. Arrange the works in the chronological order of the staging/ publication of the following plays:

A) A Woman Killed with Kindness

B) John Bull’s Other Island

C) The Double Dealer

D) The Shoemaker’s Holiday

E) The Conscious Lovers

Choose the correct answers from the options given below:

1) B, D, C, A, and E

2) D, A, C, E, and B

3) C, D, A, B, and E

4) E, B, D, C, and A

 

Answer: 2

 

81.  Arrange the works in chronological sequence:

A) The Theatre of Revolt by Robert Brustein

B) The Theater of the Absurd by Martin Esslin

C) The Playwright as Thinker by Eric Bentley

D) Modern American Drama by W.E. Bigsby

E) Modern Drama in Theory and Practice by L. N. Styan 

 

Choose the correct answers from the options given below:

1) A, D, C, D, and E

2) E, C, D, A, and B

3) B, D, A, E, and C

4) C, B, A, E, and D

 

Answer: 4

 

82. Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were published:

A) Madness and Civilization

B) The Archaeology of Knowledge

C) The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis

D) The Birth of the Clinic

E) Culture and Anarchy

1) E, B, D, C, A

2) E, A, C, B, D

3) E, B, D, A, C

4) C, A, B, D, E

 

Answer: 2

 

83. Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following theories appeared

A) Structuralism

B) Psychoanalysis

C) Ecocriticism

D) Orientalism

E) New Criticism

 

1) E, B, D, C, A

2) E, A, C, B, D

3) B, E, D, A, C

4) B, E, A, D, C

 

Answer: 4

 

84.  Arrange the works in chronological sequence:

A) Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy

B) Thomas Browne’s The Anatomy of Melancholy

C) Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

D) Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance

E) PB Shelley’s Defense of Poesie

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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1) B, C, E, A, D

2) A, B, C, D, E

3) C, D, E, A, B

4) D, C, B, A, E

 

Answer: 1

 

85. Arrange the works in chronological sequence:

A) Structuralist Poetics

B) Course in General Linguistics

C) The Pursuit of Signs

D) The Pleasure of the Text

E) The Implied Reader

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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1) A, C, D, E, B

2) B, D, E, A, C

3) C, D, A, B, E

4) D, E, A, C, B

 

Answer: 2

 

86. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The Book The Theatre of Revolt was written by Robert Brustein

Statement II: The Book The Theatre of Revolt is written in the context of the French Revolution.

 

In light of the statements given above, choose the correct answer given below:

 

1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

3) Statement I is true and Statement II is false

4) Statement I is false and Statement II is true

 

Answer: 3

 

87. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Constantin Stanislavski collaborated with Anton Chekhov to stage dramas on stage

Statement II: The book My Life in Art was written by Constantin Stanislavski.

In the light of the statements given above choose the correct answer given below:

 

1) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

2) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

3) Statement I is true and Statement II is false

4) Statement I is false and Statement II is true

 

Answer: 2

 

88. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Human bodies, like those of other living organisms, are only ‘sexed’ from a particular narrow perspective

Statement II: Most of the reproductions that we undertake in our lifetimes have nothing to do with ‘sex.’

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer given below:

1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false

4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true

 

Answer: 1

 

89. Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion (A): Co-operative learning activities are those in which students must work together in order to complete a task or solve a problem.

Reason (R): These techniques are used to identify a weak learner and to separate him/her from the rest of the members of the group for taking special care of him/her.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the option given below:

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1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

2) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

3) (A) is correct but (R) is not correct.

4) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct.

 

Answer: 3

 

90. Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion (A): In second language learning, in the same classroom setting, some students progress rapidly

through the initial stages of learning a new language while others struggle making very slow progress. Reason (R): Some learners never achieve native-like command of a second languagE)

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the option given below:

1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

2) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

3) (A) is correct but (R) is not correct.

4) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct.

 

Answer: 2

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Read the following poem and answer questions from 91-95

Talking in Bed

Talking in bed ought to be easiest,

Lying together there goes back so far, An 

emblem of two people being honest.

Yet more and more time passes silently.

Outside, the wind’s incomplete unrest 

Builds and disperses clouds about the sky,

And dark towns heap up on the horizon. 

None of this cares for us. Nothing shows 

why At this unique distance from isolation

It becomes still more difficult to find 

Words at once true and kind,

Or not untrue and not unkind

  --- Philip Larkin

 

91.  Which of the following statements is true?

1) The poet says that talking in bed is very easy.

2) The poet says that talking in bed is not very easy.

3) The poet says that talking in bed should be easy but it is not.

4) The poet says that talking in bed can never be easy.

 

Answer: 3

 

92. The poet says that when two people are lying together, they look like

1) Two Pure Human Beings.

2) Two Hypocrites.

3) Two Innocent Fellows.

4) None Of These

 

Answer: 1

 

93. The poet says that while lying in bed he and his companion pass time

1) By Talking Between Themselves.

2) By Observing The Trees Outside The Window.

3) Silently.

4) By Playing Cards.

 

Answer: 3

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94. The poet and his companion are

1) In A Hotel In The Middle Of A Town.

2) In A Room Of A Hotel On The Margin Of The Town.

3) In The Corridor Of A Hotel Far Away From The Towns.

4) In A Place Away From The Towns.

 

Answer: 4

 

95. The poet says that while lying in bed with one’s companion it is difficult to find words which are

1) At Once Honest And Caring

2) At Once True And Unkind

3) At Once Pure And Impure

4) At Once Honest And Touching

 

Answer: 1

 

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follows from 96-100

 

Poetry in its use of language continually distorts and denies the structure of reality to exalt the structure of the selF) By means of rhyme, assonance or alliteration it couples together words which have no rational connection, that is, no nexus through the world of external reality. It breaks the word up into lines of arbitrary length, cutting across their logical construction. It breaks down their associations, derived from the world of external reality, by means of inversion and every variety of artificial stressing and counterpoint. Thus the world of external reality recedes and the world of instinct, the affective emotional linkage behind the words, becomes the world of reality… In the novel, too, the subjective elements are valued for themselves, and rise to view, but in a different way. The novel blots out external reality by substituting a more or less consistent mock reality which has sufficient ‘stuff’ to stand between the reader and reality. This means that in the novel the emotional

associations attach not to words but to the moving current of mock reality symbolised by the words. This is why rhythm, ‘preciousness’, and style are alien to the novel; why the novel translates so well; why novels are not composed of words. They are composed of scenes, actions, stuff, people, just as plays are.

 

96. In the above passage, Christopher Caudwell’s statement, “Poetry in its use of language continually distorts and denies the structure of reality to exalt the structure of the self” implies:

1) The pragmatic function of poetry that reflects the social reality through expressive language

2) The capacity of poetry to draw attention to itself as an aesthetic object or artefact

3) Poetry exalts the “structure of the self” by privileging the notion of the ‘egotistical sublime’

4) The mimetic function of poetry that alludes to the world of external reality in simple, clear language

 

Answer: 2

 

97. What does the word “assonance” mean?

1) Repetition Of Identical Or Similar Consonants

2) Repetition Of Identical Or Similar Vowels

3) Repetition Of Identical Or Similar Phrases

4) Repetition Of Identical Or Similar Clauses

 

Answer: 2

 

98. What does Caudwell imply by the statement: “The novel blots out external reality by substituting a more or less consistent mock reality which has sufficient ‘stuff’ to stand between the reader and reality”?

1) The implication is that the reality of fiction has no existence independent of the words, and our emotional responses are directed by the words

2) The implication is that the reality of fiction is not dependent on the words, and our affective states are not triggered by the words

3) The mock reality subverts the external reality so obtrusively that readers become conscious of the writer’s strategy

4) The novel is different from poetry in the sense that it is metonymic in its mode of linear progression, while poetry is metaphoric relying on subject-privileging

 

Answer: 1

 

99. What do you understand by “mock reality” in context of the usage in the above passage?

1) The reality contrived into existence by novelists through strategic use of words

2) The reality evoked through figurative devices

3) The quasi reality effected through the use of poetic devices

4) The reality which is approximate to the external reality

Answer: 1

 

100. If rhythm, ‘preciousness’, and style are alien to the novel, in which genre are they distinctive features?

1) Drama

2) Poetry

3) Prose

4) Non-fiction

Answer: 2