UGC NET English (Paper-II) Sep 2026 Re-Exam — Final Answer Key & Explanations
Paper 1 (General Paper) + Paper 2 (English) — 150
Questions
NTA UGC NET Sep 2026 Re-Exam – Paper 2 (English)
Q.51
In
which of the following works was the term ‘Science Fiction’ first used?
1. William Wilson’s A Little Earnest Book upon a
Great Old Subject ✓ Correct Answer
2. Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
3. Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas,
Prince of Abyssinia
4. Elizabeth Eisenstein’s The Printing Press as
an Agent of Change
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
term “Science Fiction” was first used by William Wilson in his 1851 work A
Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject.
Q.52
Which
character from the following does not appear in Cilappatikaram?
1. Kovalan
2. Manimekalai
3. Vasantasena
✓ Correct Answer
4. Madhavi
Answer: 3
Explanation: Cilappatikaram
features Kovalan, Kannagi, Madhavi and later Manimekalai. Vasantasena is a
character from the Sanskrit play Mricchakatika.
Q.53
Who
among the following is the author of the essay “Tale of La Roche”?
1. G. B. Shaw
2. George Eliot
3. Henry Mackenzie
✓ Correct Answer
4. Jonathan Swift
Answer: 3
Explanation: “Tale
of La Roche” is a well-known essay by the Scottish writer Henry Mackenzie.
Q.54
Who
among the following has written the book Red Earth and Pouring Rain?
1. R. K. Narayan
2. Urvashi Butalia
3. Vikram Chandra
✓ Correct Answer
4. Amit Chaudhuri
Answer: 3
Explanation: Red
Earth and Pouring Rain (1995) is a novel by Vikram Chandra.
Q.55
What
is the first element of a research presentation?
1. Methodology
2. Literature Review
3. Objective
✓ Correct Answer
4. Analysis
Answer: 3
Explanation: A
research presentation conventionally begins with a clear statement of the
research objectives / aims.
Q.56
Which
of the following essays is not by John Ruskin?
1. The Open Sky
2. Autumn ✓ Correct Answer
3. Grass
4. A Sea Boat
Answer: 2
Explanation: Ruskin
actually wrote well-known nature essays/extracts titled 'The Open Sky', 'Grass'
and 'A Sea Boat' (drawn respectively from Modern Painters and The Harbours of
England). 'Autumn', by contrast, is not part of the standard Ruskin canon of
essay extracts and is therefore the odd one out (Option 2), as per the official
key.
Q.57
The
term “New Criticism” was coined by:
1. T. S. Eliot
2. Ezra Pound
3. Joel Spingarn
✓ Correct Answer
4. I. A. Richards
Answer: 3
Explanation: Joel
Elias Spingarn first used the term “New Criticism” in his 1910 lecture “The New
Criticism”.
Q.58
What
is a ‘citation’ in literary research?
1. Reference to a particular research source
✓ Correct Answer
2. Paraphrasing from a source
3. Making a bibliography
4. Referring to the supervisor
Answer: 1
Explanation: A
citation is a formal reference to a specific source used in research.
Q.59
Who
among the following was one of the leading figures of the Oxford Movement?
1. Charles Kingsley
2. Cardinal Newman
✓ Correct Answer
3. George Stephenson
4. Benjamin Disraeli
Answer: 2
Explanation: John
Henry Newman (later Cardinal Newman) was a central figure of the Oxford
Movement (Tractarian Movement).
Q.60
Match
the works in LIST-I with authors in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Of Jesting I. Abraham Cowley
B.
Of Solitude II. Ben Jonson
C.
Fortuna III. Thomas Fuller
D.
Of Toleration IV. Sir Thomas Browne
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: As
per the official key, the correct matching is: A. Of Jesting – III. Thomas
Fuller; B. Of Solitude – I. Abraham Cowley (Cowley's celebrated essay 'Of
Solitude' is one of his best-known prose pieces); C. Fortuna – II. Ben Jonson;
D. Of Toleration – IV. Sir Thomas Browne — i.e. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV (Option
4).
Q.61
Fill
in the blanks: Ferdinand de Saussure undertook a ________ approach which saw
language as a ________ that could be studied in its entirety at a given point
in time.
1. historical, web
2. philological, rule
3. diachronic, utterance
4. synchronic, structure
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Saussure
advocated a synchronic approach that treats language as a structured system at
a given moment.
Q.62
Which
of the following statements is true for Écriture féminine?
A.
A loose English translation of écriture féminine is “Feminine writing”.
B.
It is described as a uniquely feminine style of writing, characterized by
disruptions in the text: gaps, silences, puns, rhythms etc.
C.
It is comprehensible, and consistent, and easy to read and understand.
D.
Écriture féminine is political.
1. A, B and C only
2. A, B and D only
✓ Correct Answer
3. B, C and D only
4. A and D only
Answer: 2
Explanation: Écriture
féminine (Cixous et al.) is feminine writing that disrupts patriarchal language
and is inherently political; it is not necessarily easy or consistent.
Q.63
What
is an adjunct?
1. A part of a sentence that provides additional
information about where, when or how. ✓ Correct Answer
2. A new word formed from the initial letters of
other words.
3. A bound morpheme such as un- or -ed, added to
a word.
4. Words in different languages that have a
similar form and meaning.
Answer: 1
Explanation: In
grammar, an adjunct is an optional element that adds circumstantial information
(time, place, manner, etc.).
Q.64
Match
the authors in LIST-I with their works in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Mahesh Dattani I. Harvest
B.
Makarand Deshpande II. Final Solutions
C.
Manjula Padmanabhan III.
Mukta-Dhara
D.
Rabindranath Tagore IV. Manushya
1. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
2. A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
✓ Correct Answer
4. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 3
Explanation: Mahesh
Dattani – Final Solutions; Makarand Deshpande – Manushya; Manjula Padmanabhan –
Harvest; Rabindranath Tagore – Mukta-Dhara.
Q.65
Which
of the following word classes does not consist of content words?
1. Verb
2. Adjective
3. Preposition
✓ Correct Answer
4. Adverb
Answer: 3
Explanation: Prepositions
are function (grammatical) words; verbs, adjectives and adverbs are content
words.
Q.66
Which
Indian book won the Booker prize in 1997?
1. A Suitable Boy
2. Midnight’s Children
3. The God of Small Things
✓ Correct Answer
4. Tomb of Sand
Answer: 3
Explanation: Arundhati
Roy’s The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997.
Q.67
Which
one of the following is not a Figure of Speech?
1. Anaphora
2. Enjambment
3. Metonymy
4. Elegy ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Elegy
is a poetic genre/form, not a figure of speech. The others are figures of
speech or rhetorical devices.
Q.68
Identify
the writer of the following statement: “In English writing we seldom speak of
tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence.”
1. W. H. Auden
2. Roland Barthes
3. Kenneth Burke
4. T.S. Eliot
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
line is from T. S. Eliot’s essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919).
Q.69
Arrange
the following works in the chronological order of their publication.
A.
A Woman Killed with Kindness
B.
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
C.
The Honest Whore
D.
Old Fortunatus
1. A, B, D, C
2. B, D, A, C
✓ Correct Answer
3. B, D, C, A
4. C, B, A, D
Answer: 2
Explanation: Chronological
order: The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599), Old Fortunatus (1599), A Woman Killed
with Kindness (1603), The Honest Whore (1604).
Q.70
Match
the idea in LIST-I with critics in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Psychoanalytic Criticism I.
Wolfgang Iser
B.
Reader-Response Theory II. J. L.
Austin
C.
Speech Act Theory III. Sigmund Freud
D.
Archetypal Criticism IV. Carl Jung
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
✓ Correct Answer
3. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
4. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 2
Explanation: Psychoanalytic
Criticism – Freud; Reader-Response – Iser; Speech Act Theory – Austin;
Archetypal Criticism – Jung.
Q.71
Which
of the following is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
1. Because I could not stop for Death
2. Remember me when I am gone away
✓ Correct Answer
3. Success is counted sweetest
4. I like a look of Agony
Answer: 2
Explanation: “Remember
me when I am gone away” is by Christina Rossetti, not Emily Dickinson.
Q.72
Pick
the odd one out from the following poets.
1. William Wordsworth
2. William Blake
3. John Keats
4. Walt Whitman
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Wordsworth,
Blake and Keats are British Romantic poets; Walt Whitman is an American poet.
Q.73
Which
of the following is a voiceless, bilabial, plosive sound?
1. /m/
2. /p/ ✓ Correct Answer
3. /t/
4. /f/
Answer: 2
Explanation: /p/
is a voiceless bilabial plosive. /m/ is voiced bilabial nasal; /t/ is alveolar;
/f/ is labiodental fricative.
Q.74
Match
the works in LIST-I with writers in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Dhvanyaloka I. Kuntaka
B.
Vakyapadiya II. Bhartrihari
C.
Vakrokti-jivita III.
Anandavardhana
D.
Dasarupa IV. Dhananjaya
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
3. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
✓ Correct Answer
4. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Answer: 3
Explanation: Dhvanyaloka
– Anandavardhana; Vakyapadiya – Bhartrihari; Vakrokti-jivita – Kuntaka;
Dasarupa – Dhananjaya.
Q.75
Who
among the following has said, “Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when
they say that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison”?
1. Richard Steele
2. William Congreve
3. Jonathan Swift
✓ Correct Answer
4. Alexander Pope
Answer: 3
Explanation: The
statement appears in Jonathan Swift’s writings (notably in A Tale of a Tub /
related satirical works).
Q.76
Which
of the following statements characterize literary modernism?
A.
There is a sense of continuity, rather than a separation, between the worlds of
subject and object…
B.
Time is conceived in a static model…
C.
The linear narrative structure following the conventional Aristotelian model…
has been adapted.
D.
Modernist poetry tends to be fragmented…
E.
There is a self-consciousness regarding the process of literary composition…
1. A, B and C only
2. A, C and D only
3. A, D and E only
✓ Correct Answer
4. C, D and E only
Answer: 3
Explanation: According
to the official key, literary modernism is characterised by: (A) a sense of
continuity rather than separation between the worlds of subject and object (the
blurring of inner consciousness and outer reality, as in
stream-of-consciousness writing); (D) fragmented poetic form; and (E) a marked
self-consciousness about the process of literary composition itself (formal
self-reflexivity). Time in modernist writing is treated as fluid, subjective
'duration' rather than static (so B is not a modernist trait), which is why the
correct combination is A, D and E only (Option 3).
Q.77
Match
the persons in LIST-I with the persons they are associated with in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Nora Barnacle I. Rajendra Yadav
B.
Frieda Weekley II. Jean-Paul
Sartre
C.
Mannu Bhandari III. D. H. Lawrence
D.
Simone de Beauvoir IV. James Joyce
1. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
✓ Correct Answer
2. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
Answer: 1
Explanation: Nora
Barnacle – James Joyce; Frieda Weekley – D. H. Lawrence; Mannu Bhandari –
Rajendra Yadav; Simone de Beauvoir – Jean-Paul Sartre.
Q.78
Who
among the following appears in both The Ramayana and The Mahabharata?
1. Sage Dronacharya
2. Sage Ved Vyasa
3. Sage Parshurama
✓ Correct Answer
4. Sage Durvasa
Answer: 3
Explanation: Sage
Parashurama appears in both epics (teacher of Bhishma and Karna in the
Mahabharata; significant role in the Ramayana tradition as well).
Q.79
Identify
the definition of Illocutionary act under speech act.
1. The production of an utterance, with a
particular intended structure, meaning, and reference.
2. A speech act which depends on the production
of a specific effect.
3. An act performed by a speaker in saying
something, rather than by virtue of having produced a particular effect by
saying something. ✓ Correct Answer
4. The person producing an utterance.
Answer: 3
Explanation: According
to Austin/Searle, an illocutionary act is the act performed in saying something
(promising, ordering, etc.).
Q.80
Which
of the following statements is not true in the context of Hybridity?
1. Hybridity as a concept was popularized by the
postcolonial critic Homi K. Bhabha.
2. Hybridity is the creation of new cultural
forms and identities as a result of the postcolonial encounter…
✓ Correct Answer
3. Hybridity in postcolonial societies can be in
the form of a retrieval/revival of a pre-colonial past…
4. Hybridity enables the postcolonial writer to
negotiate the dangers of cultural binarism…
Answer: 2
Explanation: As
per the official key, Statement 2 is the one that is NOT true in the context of
Hybridity as worded in the question. The other statements – that the concept
was popularised by Homi K. Bhabha, that hybridity can take the form of
retrieving/reviving a pre-colonial past, and that it enables the postcolonial
writer to negotiate the dangers of cultural binarism – are treated as valid
(Options 1, 3 and 4), leaving Option 2 as the answer to 'which is NOT true'.
Q.81
Which
book among the following has not been written by Namita Gokhale?
1. Paro
2. A Himalayan Story
3. Things to Leave Behind
4. The Golden Honeycomb
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
Golden Honeycomb is by Kamala Markandaya; the other three are by Namita
Gokhale.
Q.82
In
which of the following plays does the phrase “frailty thy name is woman” occur?
1. ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. A Doll’s House
4. Hamlet ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
famous line “Frailty, thy name is woman!” is spoken by Hamlet in Act I, Scene
ii of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Q.83
From
the options provided below, identify the text in which the following lines
appear:
“Heaven
has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor
hell a fury, like a woman scorned”.
1. The Country Wife
2. The Old Bachelor
3. The Mourning Bride
✓ Correct Answer
4. The Way of the World
Answer: 3
Explanation: These
lines are from William Congreve’s tragedy The Mourning Bride (1697).
Q.84
Which
of the following novels has been written by Vladimir Nabokov?
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Lolita ✓ Correct Answer
4. Anna Karenina
Answer: 3
Explanation: Lolita
(1955) is by Vladimir Nabokov; the others are by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
Q.85
Who
among the following is a bilingual poet?
1. Nissim Ezekiel
2. Eunice D’Souza
3. Arun Kolatkar
✓ Correct Answer
4. Arun Joshi
Answer: 3
Explanation: Arun
Kolatkar wrote poetry in both English and Marathi and is regarded as a major
bilingual poet.
Q.86
Fill
in the blank: The practice of approaching male authors from a feminist
perspective became known as ______________ because it sought to expose the
masculine bias of the work.
1. biological criticism
2. gynocriticism
3. phallocentric criticism
✓ Correct Answer
4. psychoanalysis
Answer: 3
Explanation: The
approach that examines male-authored texts for patriarchal/masculine bias is
called phallocentric criticism (or phallogocentric criticism).
Q.87
Which
of the following statements is not true in the context of Samuel Johnson’s
“Preface to Shakespeare”?
1. Johnson defends Shakespeare against charges
brought by critics and writers such as John Dennis, Thomas Rymer, and Voltaire.
2. Johnson says that Shakespeare’s plays “are
not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies…”
3. Johnson is critical of those who criticize
Shakespeare and exonerates him of any fault.
✓ Correct Answer
4. Johnson points out that when Shakespeare’s
plays were first “edited” in 1623…
Answer: 3
Explanation: Johnson
does not exonerate Shakespeare of all faults; he acknowledges several (e.g.,
neglect of poetic justice, anachronisms, etc.) while still defending him
overall.
Q.88
What
kind of phrase is the following: at three o’clock?
1. Noun phrase
2. Prepositional phrase
✓ Correct Answer
3. Adjective phrase
4. Adverb phrase
Answer: 2
Explanation: “At
three o’clock” begins with a preposition and functions as a prepositional
phrase (adverbial of time).
Q.89
Which
of the following is not an autobiography of a person with disability?
1. The Other Senses
2. No Looking Back
3. Animal’s People
✓ Correct Answer
4. Face to Face
Answer: 3
Explanation: Animal’s
People is a novel by Indra Sinha; the others are autobiographies by persons
with disabilities.
Q.90
What
defines an ‘edition’?
1. The total number of books in a year
2. The total number of books sold
3. The total number of books owned by the author
4. The total number of copies of a book printed
from one set of type ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: In
bibliographical terms, an edition consists of all copies printed from
substantially the same setting of type.
Q.91
Which
of the following novels was not published in 1847?
1. Vanity Fair
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Hard Times
✓ Correct Answer
4. Jane Eyre
Answer: 3
Explanation: Hard
Times was published in 1854. The other three novels appeared in 1847.
Q.92
Which
of the following authors was awarded by the Sahitya Akademi in the year 2000
for his novel Cuckold?
1. Amitav Ghosh
2. Amit Chaudhuri
3. Vikram Seth
4. Kiran Nagarkar
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Kiran
Nagarkar received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2000 for Cuckold.
Q.93
Which
of the following has been a consistent genre in Suniti Namjoshi’s writings?
1. Science
2. Folktales
✓ Correct Answer
3. Mythology
4. History
Answer: 2
Explanation: Suniti
Namjoshi is a fabulist whose writing consistently draws on and reworks
traditional folktales, fairy tales and fables (as in Feminist Fables and The
Blue Donkey Fables) from a feminist perspective. As per the official key,
'Folktales' (Option 2) is identified as the consistent genre in her work,
rather than mythology, science or history.
Q.94
Which
of the following is not true in the context of Cultural Materialism?
1. It refers to the manner in which economic
forces and modes of production inevitably impinge upon cultural products such
as literary works.
2. It is a movement in British literary theory
that insistently pursues the materialist basis of cultural phenomena.
3. Alongside textual evidence, cultural
materialists pursue all kinds of contextual evidence…
4. This term was first used by Pierre Bourdieu.
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
term “Cultural Materialism” in literary studies was popularised by Raymond
Williams and later Jonathan Dollimore & Alan Sinfield; it was not first
used by Bourdieu.
Q.95
Which
of the following is not a Dalit autobiography?
1. Kumud Pawde’s Antasphot
2. Sharankumar Limbale’s Akkarmashi
3. Akhila Naik’s Bheda
✓ Correct Answer
4. Bama’s Karukku
Answer: 3
Explanation: Bheda
by Akhila Naik is generally classified as a novel, whereas the other three are
well-known Dalit autobiographies.
Q.96
Which
of the following works is not written by an American writer?
1. Kindred
2. Beloved
3. Possession
✓ Correct Answer
4. The Age of Innocence
Answer: 3
Explanation: Possession
is by the British author A. S. Byatt; the others are by American writers
(Butler, Morrison, Wharton).
Q.97
Identify
the three-term labels describing the articulation of the English sound /ð/.
1. Voiced, Velar, Nasal
2. Voiceless, Plosive, Affricate
3. Voiced, Dental, Fricative
✓ Correct Answer
4. Voiceless, Alveolar, Plosive
Answer: 3
Explanation: /ð/
(as in “this”) is a voiced dental fricative.
Q.98
In
which year was Rabindranath Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
1. 1920
2. 1913 ✓ Correct Answer
3. 1956
4. 1930
Answer: 2
Explanation: Tagore
received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.
Q.99
Which
of the following do not characterize an Affricate sound?
A.
A complete closure is made at some point in the mouth.
B.
Air pressure builds up behind the closure and is then released slowly.
C.
Air pressure builds up behind the closure and is then released explosively.
D.
The soft palate is raised.
E.
The soft palate is lowered.
1. A & B
2. B & D
3. C & E
✓ Correct Answer
4. A & D
Answer: 3
Explanation: Affricates
involve complete closure followed by slow release (not explosive) and a raised
soft palate (oral, not nasal). C and E are therefore incorrect for affricates.
Q.100
Match
the authors in LIST-I with their works in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Kavita Kane I. Ganga: The Constant
Goddess
B.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni II. Asuras:
A Tale of the Vanquished
C.
Anuja Chandramouli III. The Palace of
Illusions
D.
Anant Neelakanthan IV. Menaka’s Choice
1. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
✓ Correct Answer
3. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
4. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Answer: 2
Explanation: Kavita
Kane – Menaka’s Choice; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – The Palace of Illusions;
Anuja Chandramouli – Ganga: The Constant Goddess; Anand Neelakantan – Asuras: A
Tale of the Vanquished.
Q.101
Match
the authors in LIST-I with their works in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Horace Walpole I. Vathek
B.
M. G. Lewis II. The Castle of Otranto
C.
William Beckford III. The Mysteries
of Udolpho
D.
Ann Radcliffe IV. The Monk
1. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
2. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
✓ Correct Answer
3. A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
4. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 2
Explanation: Horace
Walpole – The Castle of Otranto; M. G. Lewis – The Monk; William Beckford –
Vathek; Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho.
Q.102
Which
among the following most appropriately describes the expression ‘research gap’?
1. Gap year of the researcher
2. Moderate capability of the researcher
3. The void in a particular research subject
✓ Correct Answer
4. Gap in understanding of the research
Answer: 3
Explanation: A
research gap refers to an unexplored or insufficiently addressed area within a
particular field of study.
Q.103
Which
of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays was adapted into a film that later received the
National Film Award for the best Marathi film?
1. Gidhade
2. Sakharam Binder
3. Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe!
✓ Correct Answer
4. Ghasiram Kotwal
Answer: 3
Explanation: Vijay
Tendulkar’s play Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe! was adapted into a film that won
the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi.
Q.104
Match
the works in LIST-I with their authors in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Small Remedies I. Rohinton Mistry
B.
Maila Aanchal II. Dharamveer
Bharati
C.
Sooraj Ka Satvan Ghoda III. Shashi
Deshpande
D.
Family Matters IV. Phanishwar
Nath Renu
1. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
✓ Correct Answer
2. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4. A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Answer: 1
Explanation: Small
Remedies – Shashi Deshpande; Maila Aanchal – Phanishwar Nath Renu; Sooraj Ka
Satvan Ghoda – Dharamveer Bharati; Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry.
Q.105
Choose
the correct sequence from among the following as per the publication of the
works:
A.
The Dark Room – R.K. Narayan
B.
Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
C.
The Serpent and the Rope – Raja Rao
D.
Azadi – Chaman Nahal
E.
Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh
1. D, C, A, B, E
2. A, B, C, E, D
✓ Correct Answer
3. B, C, E, D, A
4. C, D, B, E, A
Answer: 2
Explanation: As per the official NTA key, the accepted sequence is: A. The Dark Room – R.K. Narayan, B. Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand, C. The Serpent and the Rope – Raja Rao, E. Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh, D. Azadi – Chaman Nahal, i.e. A, B, C, E, D (Option 2). (Note: independently verified publication years – Untouchable 1935, The Dark Room 1938, Train to Pakistan 1956, The Serpent and the Rope 1960, Azadi 1975 – would suggest the strict chronological order B, A, E, C, D; candidates should go by the officially declared key, Option 2, for scoring purposes.)
Q.106
Match
the measures in LIST-I with their description in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Trochaic I. An accented syllable is
followed by an unaccented one.
B.
Iambic II. The first syllable is
unaccented, and the second is accented.
C.
Dactylic III. One accented syllable
is followed by two unaccented ones.
D.
Amphibrachic IV. The middle
syllable is accented and the other two are unaccented.
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
✓ Correct Answer
2. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
3. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Answer: 1
Explanation: Trochaic
= stressed-unstressed; Iambic = unstressed-stressed; Dactylic =
stressed-unstressed-unstressed; Amphibrachic = unstressed-stressed-unstressed.
Q.107
“Oh,
say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle, reject a
lord?” Identify the poet of the lines given above:
1. Andrew Marvell
2. John Donne
3. Alexander Pope
✓ Correct Answer
4. William Shakespeare
Answer: 3
Explanation: These
lines are from Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.
Q.108
What
is meant by plagiarism in research?
1. Paraphrasing from a source with
acknowledgement
2. Copy pasting from a source
✓ Correct Answer
3. Quoting from a source
4. Reading from a source
Answer: 2
Explanation: Plagiarism
is the act of presenting someone else’s work or ideas as one’s own, typically
by copying without proper acknowledgement.
Q.109
Who
among the following uses the ‘touchstone method’ to define the function of
poetry?
1. Robert Browning
2. D. G. Rossetti
3. Matthew Arnold
✓ Correct Answer
4. Alfred Tennyson
Answer: 3
Explanation: Matthew
Arnold introduced the “touchstone method” in his critical essay “The Study of
Poetry”.
Q.110
Identify
the work by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar:
1. The Madwoman in the Attic
✓ Correct Answer
2. The Female Imagination
3. Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist
Feminist Analysis
4. The Second Sex
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
Madwoman in the Attic (1979) is the landmark feminist critical work by Sandra
Gilbert and Susan Gubar.
Q.111
Match
the critics in LIST-I with the concepts they are associated with in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson I. Narrative
Prosthesis
B.
David Mitchell & Sharon Snyder II.
Disability Rights and Bioethics
C.
David Bolt III. Disability and Gender
D.
Tom Shakespeare IV. Cultural
Disability Studies
1. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
3. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: As
per the official key, the correct matching is: A. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson –
III. Disability and Gender (a founding figure of feminist disability studies);
B. David Mitchell & Sharon Snyder – I. Narrative Prosthesis (title of their
landmark 2000 book); C. David Bolt – IV. Cultural Disability Studies (a leading
figure in literary/cultural disability studies); D. Tom Shakespeare – II.
Disability Rights and Bioethics (has written extensively on the bioethics of
disability) — i.e. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II (Option 4).
Q.112
Who
among the following holds that “life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically
arranged”?
1. Virginia Woolf
✓ Correct Answer
2. James Joyce
3. Henry James
4. George Eliot
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
statement is from Virginia Woolf’s essay “Modern Fiction”.
Q.113
Which
of the following is not written by R. K. Narayan?
1. The Financial Expert
2. The Vendor of Sweets
3. The Guide
4. A Bend in the Ganges
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: A
Bend in the Ganges is by Manohar Malgonkar; the other three are by R. K.
Narayan.
Q.114
From
the following, identify the critic who coined the term ‘problem plays’ in the
context of Shakespearean drama.
1. A. C. Bradley
2. John Palmer
3. Frederick S. Boas
✓ Correct Answer
4. William Hazlitt
Answer: 3
Explanation: Frederick
S. Boas first applied the term “problem plays” to certain Shakespearean works
in 1896.
Q.115
Identify
the French term equivalent of ‘do-it-yourself’, which came into use in
structuralist criticism in the early 1960s in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss.
1. Cathexis
2. Dasein
3. Facticity
4. Bricolage
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Claude
Lévi-Strauss used the term bricolage to describe the improvisational,
“do-it-yourself” construction of myths and cultural systems.
Q.116
In
Dryden’s Of Dramatic Poesy which speaker has been identified as the “new man”
representing Dryden himself?
1. Eugenius
2. Crites
3. Lisideius
4. Neander ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Neander
(meaning “new man”) is the character who represents John Dryden’s own views in
Of Dramatic Poesy.
Q.117
How
many feet does an ‘iambic pentameter’ have?
1. 4
2. 6
3. 3
4. 5 ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Iambic
pentameter consists of five iambic feet (ten syllables in total).
Q.118
“Summer
in Calcutta” has been written by one of the following Indian poets. Choose the
correct option:
1. Shashi Deshpande
2. Nissim Ezekiel
3. Arun Joshi
4. Kamala Das
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Summer
in Calcutta (1965) is a poetry collection by Kamala Das.
Q.119
Identify
the term that was introduced by Noam Chomsky in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
to describe a native speaker’s tacit or innate understanding of his or her own
language.
1. Constative
2. Communicative action
3. Collocation
4. Competence
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Chomsky
introduced the concept of linguistic “competence” (as opposed to performance)
in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965).
Q.120
“One
shade the more, one ray the less, had half impaired the nameless grace”.
Identify the poet.
1. Lord Byron
✓ Correct Answer
2. P. B. Shelley
3. John Keats
4. William Blake
Answer: 1
Explanation: These
lines are from Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty”.
Q.121
Who
among the following defines poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings”?
1. William Wordsworth
✓ Correct Answer
2. S. T. Coleridge
3. John Keats
4. Lord Byron
Answer: 1
Explanation: William
Wordsworth defined poetry thus in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800/1802).
Q.122
Read
the following statements carefully and choose the most appropriate answer:
A.
Foucault’s genealogical method accepts objectivity and rejects the
transformative and resistant figure of the “effective” historian.
B.
Foucault’s genealogical method assumes heterogeneity, discontinuity,
singularity and the intensification of power-knowledge.
C.
Foucault understands the author-function as a critical device of the modern
Western institution of criticism…
D.
In search of another site of resistance, Foucault turns to classical Greek
self-fashioning…
1. A, B and C only
2. B, C and D only
✓ Correct Answer
3. A, C and D only
4. A, B and D only
Answer: 2
Explanation: Statements
B, C and D accurately reflect Foucault’s positions; A is incorrect because
genealogy rejects traditional objectivity.
Q.123
What
is paraphrasing?
1. To copy the author’s words
2. To analyse the author’s words
3. To put the author’s words within quotation
marks
4. To interpret the author’s words in one’s own
language ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Paraphrasing
means restating the author’s ideas in one’s own words while retaining the
original meaning.
Q.124
Identify
the language learning approach/method… (systematic presentation of L2
structures… oral drills… language lab… military personnel).
1. Audiolingual Method
✓ Correct Answer
2. The Grammar-Translation Method
3. Communicative Approach
4. Task-Based Learning
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
description matches the Audiolingual Method, which relies on pattern drills and
was widely used in military language programmes.
Q.125
Who
among the following was not a part of the Dalit Panthers Movement?
1. Namdeo Dhasal
2. Sharankumar Limbale
✓ Correct Answer
3. J. V. Pawar
4. Raja Dhale
Answer: 2
Explanation: Sharankumar
Limbale is a prominent Dalit writer but was not a founding member of the Dalit
Panthers; the others were.
Q.126
Fill
in the blank: ________ are consonant sounds that are produced with a very
narrow opening between the active and passive articulators… creating friction.
1. Plosives
2. Fricatives
✓ Correct Answer
3. Nasals
4. Liquids
Answer: 2
Explanation: Fricatives
are produced by forcing air through a narrow constriction, creating audible
friction.
Q.127
Which
of the following writers were born in the same year?
1. George Bernard Shaw and Henrik Ibsen
2. W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot
3. Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare
✓ Correct Answer
4. Philip Sidney and John Milton
Answer: 3
Explanation: Both
Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were born in 1564.
Q.128
Who
among the following remarked that Panchatantra “certainly is the most
translated literary product of India”?
1. E. M. Forster
2. Franklin Edgerton
✓ Correct Answer
3. Rudyard Kipling
4. William Jones
Answer: 2
Explanation: The
American Sanskritist Franklin Edgerton made this observation about the
Panchatantra.
Q.129
Identify
the most important reason due to which Stephen Dedalus leaves Ireland in A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
1. In search of livelihood.
2. Due to his strained relations with his
family.
3. Due to his dissatisfaction with Ireland as a
nation. ✓ Correct Answer
4. Due to his breakup with E. C.
Answer: 3
Explanation: Stephen
leaves Ireland primarily because of his artistic and intellectual
dissatisfaction with the constraints of Irish society, religion and
nationalism.
Q.130
Match
the writers in LIST-I with works in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Germaine Greer I. Sexual Anarchy…
B.
Elaine Showalter II. Bodies that
Matter…
C.
Judith Butler III. Epistemology of the
Closet
D.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick IV. The
Female Eunuch
1. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
✓ Correct Answer
2. A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
3. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
4. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Answer: 1
Explanation: Germaine
Greer – The Female Eunuch; Elaine Showalter – Sexual Anarchy; Judith Butler –
Bodies that Matter; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet.
Q.131
Identify
the correct chronological sequence of the following works:
A.
Heart of Darkness
B.
Emma
C.
Sense and Sensibility
D.
Far from the Madding Crowd
E.
A Tale of Two Cities
1. B, C, D, A, E
2. C, E, B, D, A
3. B, D, C, E, A
4. C, B, E, D, A
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Sense
and Sensibility (1811), Emma (1815), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Far from the
Madding Crowd (1874), Heart of Darkness (1899).
Q.132
Which
of the following plays is not a Shakespearean comedy?
1. Love’s Labour’s Lost
2. The Taming of the Shrew
3. The Merry Wives of Windsor
4. Coriolanus
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Coriolanus
is a tragedy; the other three are comedies.
Q.133
What
does MLA stand for in Literary Studies?
1. Modern Literary Authority
2. Modern Language Association
✓ Correct Answer
3. Modern Linguistics Association
4. Modern Library Authority
Answer: 2
Explanation: MLA
stands for Modern Language Association, the body that issues the widely used
MLA citation style.
Q.134
Identify
the correct chronological sequence of the following:
A.
Theatre of the Absurd
B.
Miracle Plays
C.
Epic Theatre
D.
Jacobean Drama
E.
Senecan Tragedies
1. D, C, A, B, E
2. E, C, D, B, A
3. E, B, D, C, A
✓ Correct Answer
4. C, E, D, B, A
Answer: 3
Explanation: Senecan
Tragedies (Roman) → Miracle Plays (medieval) → Jacobean Drama → Epic Theatre
(Brecht) → Theatre of the Absurd.
Q.135
Who
among the following founded the Amar Chitra Katha comic series?
1. Dharamveer Bharti
2. Satyajit Ray
3. Anant Pai
✓ Correct Answer
4. R. K. Narayan
Answer: 3
Explanation: Anant
Pai (Uncle Pai) founded the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967.
Q.136
Who
coined the term ‘Objective Correlative’?
1. Washington Allston
✓ Correct Answer
2. I. A. Richards
3. T. S. Eliot
4. F. R. Leavis
Answer: 1
Explanation: Although
T. S. Eliot popularised the phrase in his 1919 essay 'Hamlet and His Problems',
the term 'objective correlative' was actually first coined around 1840 by the
American painter and poet Washington Allston in his Lectures on Art, to
describe the relation between the mind and the external world. Eliot borrowed
and repurposed Allston's term for literary criticism. As per the official key,
Washington Allston (Option 1) is credited with coining the term.
Q.137
Arrange
the following in the correct order:
A.
Research design
B.
Objective
C.
Analysis
D.
Hypothesis
E.
Feedback
1. D, B, A, C, E
2. C, D, B, E, A
3. B, D, A, C, E
✓ Correct Answer
4. E, C, B, D, A
Answer: 3
Explanation: Standard
research sequence: Objectives → Hypothesis → Research design → Analysis →
Feedback.
Q.138
From
which of the following essays the given excerpt is taken?
“We
were about to say that, being writers, we are of necessity dreamers…”
1. Shaking Hands
2. Of Dreams
✓ Correct Answer
3. Deaths of Little Children
4. A Tale for a Chimney Corner
Answer: 2
Explanation: The
excerpt is from Leigh Hunt’s essay “Of Dreams”.
Q.139
Match
the plays in LIST-I with their plots in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II (brief descriptions of plots)
A.
Magnificence I. conceited fop in love with
a widow…
B.
Gammer Gurton’s Needle II. story
used by Shakespeare in King Lear… blank verse
C.
Gorboduc III. rise, fall, and final
repentance of a worldly prince…
D.
Ralph Royster Doyster IV.
domestic comedy… peasant class
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
3. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
4. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Magnificence
– rise and fall of a prince; Gammer Gurton’s Needle – domestic peasant comedy;
Gorboduc – blank-verse tragedy related to King Lear material; Ralph Roister
Doister – conceited fop plot.
Q.140
Which
of the following is not true about Disability Studies?
1. It challenges the notion of the normal.
2. It provides a broad understanding of
disability experiences.
3. It promotes ableism as a way of life.
✓ Correct Answer
4. It studies disability in the context of
society and culture.
Answer: 3
Explanation: Disability
Studies critiques and opposes ableism; it does not promote it.
Comprehension
(Q.141–Q.145)
(Excerpt from Sylvia
Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”)
Q.141
Identify
a metaphor in the passage:
1. enemy
2. miracle
3. paperweight
✓ Correct Answer
4. foot
Answer: 3
Explanation: “My
right foot / A paperweight” is a clear metaphor comparing the foot to a
paperweight.
Q.142
Identify
the biblical reference in the title of the poem from the options given below:
1. lady
2. enemy
3. linen
4. Lazarus ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
title “Lady Lazarus” alludes to the biblical figure Lazarus, whom Jesus raised
from the dead.
Q.143
What
is the predominant imagery in this poem?
1. water
2. disease
3. suicide
4. Holocaust
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
poem is dominated by Holocaust imagery (“Nazi lampshade”, “Jew linen”, etc.).
Q.144
Identify
the poem in which the above lines occur:
1. Because I could not stop for Death
2. Lady Lazarus
✓ Correct Answer
3. Daddy
4. The Bell Jar
Answer: 2
Explanation: The
given lines are the opening of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus”.
Q.145
Which
of the following is the holocaust image in the given passage?
1. napkin
2. skin ✓ Correct Answer
3. sour breath
4. paperweight
Answer: 2
Explanation: “My
skin / Bright as a Nazi lampshade” and “Jew linen” are the direct Holocaust
references; skin is the most explicit among the options.
Comprehension
(Q.146–Q.150)
(Passage on Gandhi’s
views on education)
Q.146
Identify
the kind of writing which the given passage exemplifies.
1. Subjective writing
2. Memoir writing
3. Reflective writing
✓ Correct Answer
4. Scientific writing
Answer: 3
Explanation: The
passage is a reflective exposition of Gandhi’s educational philosophy.
Q.147
Which
of the following most appropriately describes Gandhi’s reasons for making Hindu
scriptures a part of education?
1. Because he believed that Hindu scriptures
propound discipline and self-restraint. ✓ Correct Answer
2. Because he was against the English system of
education.
3. Because he was against the use of English as
a medium of instruction.
4. Because he wanted education to be in the
vernacular.
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
passage explicitly states that Gandhi wanted Hindu scriptures included because
they propounded discipline and self-restraint.
Q.148
Identify
the type of narrator in the given passage:
1. First Person Narrator
2. Second Person Narrator
3. Third Person Narrator
✓ Correct Answer
4. Fallible Narrator
Answer: 3
Explanation: The
passage is written in the third person, referring to Gandhi as “he”.
Q.149
As
per the passage, the end of education is to serve as a means to:
A.
Achieve social status
B.
Make a career
C.
Enlightenment
D.
Literacy
1. A, B and C only
✓ Correct Answer
2. B, C and D only
3. C, D and A only
4. B, D and A only
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
passage states that education should lead to enlightenment and is not merely
for career or social status; literacy alone is insufficient. The best matching
option is 1 in the key mapping.
Q.150
Based
on the passage, which of the following statements is incorrect?
1. Education should be specialization based for
the full development of the personality. ✓ Correct Answer
2. Gandhi advocated free and compulsory
education for all boys and girls between 7 and 14 years.
3. According to Gandhi, “Literacy in itself is
no education.”
4. Gandhi differentiated between learning and
education, knowledge and wisdom, literacy and lessons of life.
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
passage advocates an integrated, holistic development of personality, not
specialisation-based education. Statement 1 is therefore incorrect.
UGC NET English (Paper-II) Sep 2026 Re-Exam — Final Answer Key & Explanations
Paper 1 (General Paper) + Paper 2 (English) — 150
Questions
NTA UGC NET Sep 2026 Re-Exam – Paper 2 (English)
Q.51
In
which of the following works was the term ‘Science Fiction’ first used?
1. William Wilson’s A Little Earnest Book upon a
Great Old Subject ✓ Correct Answer
2. Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
3. Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas,
Prince of Abyssinia
4. Elizabeth Eisenstein’s The Printing Press as
an Agent of Change
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
term “Science Fiction” was first used by William Wilson in his 1851 work A
Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject.
Q.52
Which
character from the following does not appear in Cilappatikaram?
1. Kovalan
2. Manimekalai
3. Vasantasena
✓ Correct Answer
4. Madhavi
Answer: 3
Explanation: Cilappatikaram
features Kovalan, Kannagi, Madhavi and later Manimekalai. Vasantasena is a
character from the Sanskrit play Mricchakatika.
Q.53
Who
among the following is the author of the essay “Tale of La Roche”?
1. G. B. Shaw
2. George Eliot
3. Henry Mackenzie
✓ Correct Answer
4. Jonathan Swift
Answer: 3
Explanation: “Tale
of La Roche” is a well-known essay by the Scottish writer Henry Mackenzie.
Q.54
Who
among the following has written the book Red Earth and Pouring Rain?
1. R. K. Narayan
2. Urvashi Butalia
3. Vikram Chandra
✓ Correct Answer
4. Amit Chaudhuri
Answer: 3
Explanation: Red
Earth and Pouring Rain (1995) is a novel by Vikram Chandra.
Q.55
What
is the first element of a research presentation?
1. Methodology
2. Literature Review
3. Objective
✓ Correct Answer
4. Analysis
Answer: 3
Explanation: A
research presentation conventionally begins with a clear statement of the
research objectives / aims.
Q.56
Which
of the following essays is not by John Ruskin?
1. The Open Sky
2. Autumn ✓ Correct Answer
3. Grass
4. A Sea Boat
Answer: 2
Explanation: Ruskin
actually wrote well-known nature essays/extracts titled 'The Open Sky', 'Grass'
and 'A Sea Boat' (drawn respectively from Modern Painters and The Harbours of
England). 'Autumn', by contrast, is not part of the standard Ruskin canon of
essay extracts and is therefore the odd one out (Option 2), as per the official
key.
Q.57
The
term “New Criticism” was coined by:
1. T. S. Eliot
2. Ezra Pound
3. Joel Spingarn
✓ Correct Answer
4. I. A. Richards
Answer: 3
Explanation: Joel
Elias Spingarn first used the term “New Criticism” in his 1910 lecture “The New
Criticism”.
Q.58
What
is a ‘citation’ in literary research?
1. Reference to a particular research source
✓ Correct Answer
2. Paraphrasing from a source
3. Making a bibliography
4. Referring to the supervisor
Answer: 1
Explanation: A
citation is a formal reference to a specific source used in research.
Q.59
Who
among the following was one of the leading figures of the Oxford Movement?
1. Charles Kingsley
2. Cardinal Newman
✓ Correct Answer
3. George Stephenson
4. Benjamin Disraeli
Answer: 2
Explanation: John
Henry Newman (later Cardinal Newman) was a central figure of the Oxford
Movement (Tractarian Movement).
Q.60
Match
the works in LIST-I with authors in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Of Jesting I. Abraham Cowley
B.
Of Solitude II. Ben Jonson
C.
Fortuna III. Thomas Fuller
D.
Of Toleration IV. Sir Thomas Browne
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: As
per the official key, the correct matching is: A. Of Jesting – III. Thomas
Fuller; B. Of Solitude – I. Abraham Cowley (Cowley's celebrated essay 'Of
Solitude' is one of his best-known prose pieces); C. Fortuna – II. Ben Jonson;
D. Of Toleration – IV. Sir Thomas Browne — i.e. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV (Option
4).
Q.61
Fill
in the blanks: Ferdinand de Saussure undertook a ________ approach which saw
language as a ________ that could be studied in its entirety at a given point
in time.
1. historical, web
2. philological, rule
3. diachronic, utterance
4. synchronic, structure
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Saussure
advocated a synchronic approach that treats language as a structured system at
a given moment.
Q.62
Which
of the following statements is true for Écriture féminine?
A.
A loose English translation of écriture féminine is “Feminine writing”.
B.
It is described as a uniquely feminine style of writing, characterized by
disruptions in the text: gaps, silences, puns, rhythms etc.
C.
It is comprehensible, and consistent, and easy to read and understand.
D.
Écriture féminine is political.
1. A, B and C only
2. A, B and D only
✓ Correct Answer
3. B, C and D only
4. A and D only
Answer: 2
Explanation: Écriture
féminine (Cixous et al.) is feminine writing that disrupts patriarchal language
and is inherently political; it is not necessarily easy or consistent.
Q.63
What
is an adjunct?
1. A part of a sentence that provides additional
information about where, when or how. ✓ Correct Answer
2. A new word formed from the initial letters of
other words.
3. A bound morpheme such as un- or -ed, added to
a word.
4. Words in different languages that have a
similar form and meaning.
Answer: 1
Explanation: In
grammar, an adjunct is an optional element that adds circumstantial information
(time, place, manner, etc.).
Q.64
Match
the authors in LIST-I with their works in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Mahesh Dattani I. Harvest
B.
Makarand Deshpande II. Final Solutions
C.
Manjula Padmanabhan III.
Mukta-Dhara
D.
Rabindranath Tagore IV. Manushya
1. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
2. A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
✓ Correct Answer
4. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 3
Explanation: Mahesh
Dattani – Final Solutions; Makarand Deshpande – Manushya; Manjula Padmanabhan –
Harvest; Rabindranath Tagore – Mukta-Dhara.
Q.65
Which
of the following word classes does not consist of content words?
1. Verb
2. Adjective
3. Preposition
✓ Correct Answer
4. Adverb
Answer: 3
Explanation: Prepositions
are function (grammatical) words; verbs, adjectives and adverbs are content
words.
Q.66
Which
Indian book won the Booker prize in 1997?
1. A Suitable Boy
2. Midnight’s Children
3. The God of Small Things
✓ Correct Answer
4. Tomb of Sand
Answer: 3
Explanation: Arundhati
Roy’s The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997.
Q.67
Which
one of the following is not a Figure of Speech?
1. Anaphora
2. Enjambment
3. Metonymy
4. Elegy ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Elegy
is a poetic genre/form, not a figure of speech. The others are figures of
speech or rhetorical devices.
Q.68
Identify
the writer of the following statement: “In English writing we seldom speak of
tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence.”
1. W. H. Auden
2. Roland Barthes
3. Kenneth Burke
4. T.S. Eliot
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
line is from T. S. Eliot’s essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919).
Q.69
Arrange
the following works in the chronological order of their publication.
A.
A Woman Killed with Kindness
B.
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
C.
The Honest Whore
D.
Old Fortunatus
1. A, B, D, C
2. B, D, A, C
✓ Correct Answer
3. B, D, C, A
4. C, B, A, D
Answer: 2
Explanation: Chronological
order: The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599), Old Fortunatus (1599), A Woman Killed
with Kindness (1603), The Honest Whore (1604).
Q.70
Match
the idea in LIST-I with critics in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Psychoanalytic Criticism I.
Wolfgang Iser
B.
Reader-Response Theory II. J. L.
Austin
C.
Speech Act Theory III. Sigmund Freud
D.
Archetypal Criticism IV. Carl Jung
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
✓ Correct Answer
3. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
4. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 2
Explanation: Psychoanalytic
Criticism – Freud; Reader-Response – Iser; Speech Act Theory – Austin;
Archetypal Criticism – Jung.
Q.71
Which
of the following is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
1. Because I could not stop for Death
2. Remember me when I am gone away
✓ Correct Answer
3. Success is counted sweetest
4. I like a look of Agony
Answer: 2
Explanation: “Remember
me when I am gone away” is by Christina Rossetti, not Emily Dickinson.
Q.72
Pick
the odd one out from the following poets.
1. William Wordsworth
2. William Blake
3. John Keats
4. Walt Whitman
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Wordsworth,
Blake and Keats are British Romantic poets; Walt Whitman is an American poet.
Q.73
Which
of the following is a voiceless, bilabial, plosive sound?
1. /m/
2. /p/ ✓ Correct Answer
3. /t/
4. /f/
Answer: 2
Explanation: /p/
is a voiceless bilabial plosive. /m/ is voiced bilabial nasal; /t/ is alveolar;
/f/ is labiodental fricative.
Q.74
Match
the works in LIST-I with writers in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Dhvanyaloka I. Kuntaka
B.
Vakyapadiya II. Bhartrihari
C.
Vakrokti-jivita III.
Anandavardhana
D.
Dasarupa IV. Dhananjaya
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
3. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
✓ Correct Answer
4. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Answer: 3
Explanation: Dhvanyaloka
– Anandavardhana; Vakyapadiya – Bhartrihari; Vakrokti-jivita – Kuntaka;
Dasarupa – Dhananjaya.
Q.75
Who
among the following has said, “Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when
they say that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison”?
1. Richard Steele
2. William Congreve
3. Jonathan Swift
✓ Correct Answer
4. Alexander Pope
Answer: 3
Explanation: The
statement appears in Jonathan Swift’s writings (notably in A Tale of a Tub /
related satirical works).
Q.76
Which
of the following statements characterize literary modernism?
A.
There is a sense of continuity, rather than a separation, between the worlds of
subject and object…
B.
Time is conceived in a static model…
C.
The linear narrative structure following the conventional Aristotelian model…
has been adapted.
D.
Modernist poetry tends to be fragmented…
E.
There is a self-consciousness regarding the process of literary composition…
1. A, B and C only
2. A, C and D only
3. A, D and E only
✓ Correct Answer
4. C, D and E only
Answer: 3
Explanation: According
to the official key, literary modernism is characterised by: (A) a sense of
continuity rather than separation between the worlds of subject and object (the
blurring of inner consciousness and outer reality, as in
stream-of-consciousness writing); (D) fragmented poetic form; and (E) a marked
self-consciousness about the process of literary composition itself (formal
self-reflexivity). Time in modernist writing is treated as fluid, subjective
'duration' rather than static (so B is not a modernist trait), which is why the
correct combination is A, D and E only (Option 3).
Q.77
Match
the persons in LIST-I with the persons they are associated with in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Nora Barnacle I. Rajendra Yadav
B.
Frieda Weekley II. Jean-Paul
Sartre
C.
Mannu Bhandari III. D. H. Lawrence
D.
Simone de Beauvoir IV. James Joyce
1. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
✓ Correct Answer
2. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
Answer: 1
Explanation: Nora
Barnacle – James Joyce; Frieda Weekley – D. H. Lawrence; Mannu Bhandari –
Rajendra Yadav; Simone de Beauvoir – Jean-Paul Sartre.
Q.78
Who
among the following appears in both The Ramayana and The Mahabharata?
1. Sage Dronacharya
2. Sage Ved Vyasa
3. Sage Parshurama
✓ Correct Answer
4. Sage Durvasa
Answer: 3
Explanation: Sage
Parashurama appears in both epics (teacher of Bhishma and Karna in the
Mahabharata; significant role in the Ramayana tradition as well).
Q.79
Identify
the definition of Illocutionary act under speech act.
1. The production of an utterance, with a
particular intended structure, meaning, and reference.
2. A speech act which depends on the production
of a specific effect.
3. An act performed by a speaker in saying
something, rather than by virtue of having produced a particular effect by
saying something. ✓ Correct Answer
4. The person producing an utterance.
Answer: 3
Explanation: According
to Austin/Searle, an illocutionary act is the act performed in saying something
(promising, ordering, etc.).
Q.80
Which
of the following statements is not true in the context of Hybridity?
1. Hybridity as a concept was popularized by the
postcolonial critic Homi K. Bhabha.
2. Hybridity is the creation of new cultural
forms and identities as a result of the postcolonial encounter…
✓ Correct Answer
3. Hybridity in postcolonial societies can be in
the form of a retrieval/revival of a pre-colonial past…
4. Hybridity enables the postcolonial writer to
negotiate the dangers of cultural binarism…
Answer: 2
Explanation: As
per the official key, Statement 2 is the one that is NOT true in the context of
Hybridity as worded in the question. The other statements – that the concept
was popularised by Homi K. Bhabha, that hybridity can take the form of
retrieving/reviving a pre-colonial past, and that it enables the postcolonial
writer to negotiate the dangers of cultural binarism – are treated as valid
(Options 1, 3 and 4), leaving Option 2 as the answer to 'which is NOT true'.
Q.81
Which
book among the following has not been written by Namita Gokhale?
1. Paro
2. A Himalayan Story
3. Things to Leave Behind
4. The Golden Honeycomb
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
Golden Honeycomb is by Kamala Markandaya; the other three are by Namita
Gokhale.
Q.82
In
which of the following plays does the phrase “frailty thy name is woman” occur?
1. ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. A Doll’s House
4. Hamlet ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
famous line “Frailty, thy name is woman!” is spoken by Hamlet in Act I, Scene
ii of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Q.83
From
the options provided below, identify the text in which the following lines
appear:
“Heaven
has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor
hell a fury, like a woman scorned”.
1. The Country Wife
2. The Old Bachelor
3. The Mourning Bride
✓ Correct Answer
4. The Way of the World
Answer: 3
Explanation: These
lines are from William Congreve’s tragedy The Mourning Bride (1697).
Q.84
Which
of the following novels has been written by Vladimir Nabokov?
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Lolita ✓ Correct Answer
4. Anna Karenina
Answer: 3
Explanation: Lolita
(1955) is by Vladimir Nabokov; the others are by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
Q.85
Who
among the following is a bilingual poet?
1. Nissim Ezekiel
2. Eunice D’Souza
3. Arun Kolatkar
✓ Correct Answer
4. Arun Joshi
Answer: 3
Explanation: Arun
Kolatkar wrote poetry in both English and Marathi and is regarded as a major
bilingual poet.
Q.86
Fill
in the blank: The practice of approaching male authors from a feminist
perspective became known as ______________ because it sought to expose the
masculine bias of the work.
1. biological criticism
2. gynocriticism
3. phallocentric criticism
✓ Correct Answer
4. psychoanalysis
Answer: 3
Explanation: The
approach that examines male-authored texts for patriarchal/masculine bias is
called phallocentric criticism (or phallogocentric criticism).
Q.87
Which
of the following statements is not true in the context of Samuel Johnson’s
“Preface to Shakespeare”?
1. Johnson defends Shakespeare against charges
brought by critics and writers such as John Dennis, Thomas Rymer, and Voltaire.
2. Johnson says that Shakespeare’s plays “are
not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies…”
3. Johnson is critical of those who criticize
Shakespeare and exonerates him of any fault.
✓ Correct Answer
4. Johnson points out that when Shakespeare’s
plays were first “edited” in 1623…
Answer: 3
Explanation: Johnson
does not exonerate Shakespeare of all faults; he acknowledges several (e.g.,
neglect of poetic justice, anachronisms, etc.) while still defending him
overall.
Q.88
What
kind of phrase is the following: at three o’clock?
1. Noun phrase
2. Prepositional phrase
✓ Correct Answer
3. Adjective phrase
4. Adverb phrase
Answer: 2
Explanation: “At
three o’clock” begins with a preposition and functions as a prepositional
phrase (adverbial of time).
Q.89
Which
of the following is not an autobiography of a person with disability?
1. The Other Senses
2. No Looking Back
3. Animal’s People
✓ Correct Answer
4. Face to Face
Answer: 3
Explanation: Animal’s
People is a novel by Indra Sinha; the others are autobiographies by persons
with disabilities.
Q.90
What
defines an ‘edition’?
1. The total number of books in a year
2. The total number of books sold
3. The total number of books owned by the author
4. The total number of copies of a book printed
from one set of type ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: In
bibliographical terms, an edition consists of all copies printed from
substantially the same setting of type.
Q.91
Which
of the following novels was not published in 1847?
1. Vanity Fair
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Hard Times
✓ Correct Answer
4. Jane Eyre
Answer: 3
Explanation: Hard
Times was published in 1854. The other three novels appeared in 1847.
Q.92
Which
of the following authors was awarded by the Sahitya Akademi in the year 2000
for his novel Cuckold?
1. Amitav Ghosh
2. Amit Chaudhuri
3. Vikram Seth
4. Kiran Nagarkar
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Kiran
Nagarkar received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2000 for Cuckold.
Q.93
Which
of the following has been a consistent genre in Suniti Namjoshi’s writings?
1. Science
2. Folktales
✓ Correct Answer
3. Mythology
4. History
Answer: 2
Explanation: Suniti
Namjoshi is a fabulist whose writing consistently draws on and reworks
traditional folktales, fairy tales and fables (as in Feminist Fables and The
Blue Donkey Fables) from a feminist perspective. As per the official key,
'Folktales' (Option 2) is identified as the consistent genre in her work,
rather than mythology, science or history.
Q.94
Which
of the following is not true in the context of Cultural Materialism?
1. It refers to the manner in which economic
forces and modes of production inevitably impinge upon cultural products such
as literary works.
2. It is a movement in British literary theory
that insistently pursues the materialist basis of cultural phenomena.
3. Alongside textual evidence, cultural
materialists pursue all kinds of contextual evidence…
4. This term was first used by Pierre Bourdieu.
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
term “Cultural Materialism” in literary studies was popularised by Raymond
Williams and later Jonathan Dollimore & Alan Sinfield; it was not first
used by Bourdieu.
Q.95
Which
of the following is not a Dalit autobiography?
1. Kumud Pawde’s Antasphot
2. Sharankumar Limbale’s Akkarmashi
3. Akhila Naik’s Bheda
✓ Correct Answer
4. Bama’s Karukku
Answer: 3
Explanation: Bheda
by Akhila Naik is generally classified as a novel, whereas the other three are
well-known Dalit autobiographies.
Q.96
Which
of the following works is not written by an American writer?
1. Kindred
2. Beloved
3. Possession
✓ Correct Answer
4. The Age of Innocence
Answer: 3
Explanation: Possession
is by the British author A. S. Byatt; the others are by American writers
(Butler, Morrison, Wharton).
Q.97
Identify
the three-term labels describing the articulation of the English sound /ð/.
1. Voiced, Velar, Nasal
2. Voiceless, Plosive, Affricate
3. Voiced, Dental, Fricative
✓ Correct Answer
4. Voiceless, Alveolar, Plosive
Answer: 3
Explanation: /ð/
(as in “this”) is a voiced dental fricative.
Q.98
In
which year was Rabindranath Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
1. 1920
2. 1913 ✓ Correct Answer
3. 1956
4. 1930
Answer: 2
Explanation: Tagore
received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.
Q.99
Which
of the following do not characterize an Affricate sound?
A.
A complete closure is made at some point in the mouth.
B.
Air pressure builds up behind the closure and is then released slowly.
C.
Air pressure builds up behind the closure and is then released explosively.
D.
The soft palate is raised.
E.
The soft palate is lowered.
1. A & B
2. B & D
3. C & E
✓ Correct Answer
4. A & D
Answer: 3
Explanation: Affricates
involve complete closure followed by slow release (not explosive) and a raised
soft palate (oral, not nasal). C and E are therefore incorrect for affricates.
Q.100
Match
the authors in LIST-I with their works in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Kavita Kane I. Ganga: The Constant
Goddess
B.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni II. Asuras:
A Tale of the Vanquished
C.
Anuja Chandramouli III. The Palace of
Illusions
D.
Anant Neelakanthan IV. Menaka’s Choice
1. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
✓ Correct Answer
3. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
4. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
Answer: 2
Explanation: Kavita
Kane – Menaka’s Choice; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – The Palace of Illusions;
Anuja Chandramouli – Ganga: The Constant Goddess; Anand Neelakantan – Asuras: A
Tale of the Vanquished.
Q.101
Match
the authors in LIST-I with their works in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Horace Walpole I. Vathek
B.
M. G. Lewis II. The Castle of Otranto
C.
William Beckford III. The Mysteries
of Udolpho
D.
Ann Radcliffe IV. The Monk
1. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
2. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
✓ Correct Answer
3. A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
4. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
Answer: 2
Explanation: Horace
Walpole – The Castle of Otranto; M. G. Lewis – The Monk; William Beckford –
Vathek; Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho.
Q.102
Which
among the following most appropriately describes the expression ‘research gap’?
1. Gap year of the researcher
2. Moderate capability of the researcher
3. The void in a particular research subject
✓ Correct Answer
4. Gap in understanding of the research
Answer: 3
Explanation: A
research gap refers to an unexplored or insufficiently addressed area within a
particular field of study.
Q.103
Which
of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays was adapted into a film that later received the
National Film Award for the best Marathi film?
1. Gidhade
2. Sakharam Binder
3. Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe!
✓ Correct Answer
4. Ghasiram Kotwal
Answer: 3
Explanation: Vijay
Tendulkar’s play Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe! was adapted into a film that won
the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi.
Q.104
Match
the works in LIST-I with their authors in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Small Remedies I. Rohinton Mistry
B.
Maila Aanchal II. Dharamveer
Bharati
C.
Sooraj Ka Satvan Ghoda III. Shashi
Deshpande
D.
Family Matters IV. Phanishwar
Nath Renu
1. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
✓ Correct Answer
2. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4. A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Answer: 1
Explanation: Small
Remedies – Shashi Deshpande; Maila Aanchal – Phanishwar Nath Renu; Sooraj Ka
Satvan Ghoda – Dharamveer Bharati; Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry.
Q.105
Choose
the correct sequence from among the following as per the publication of the
works:
A.
The Dark Room – R.K. Narayan
B.
Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
C.
The Serpent and the Rope – Raja Rao
D.
Azadi – Chaman Nahal
E.
Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh
1. D, C, A, B, E
2. A, B, C, E, D
✓ Correct Answer
3. B, C, E, D, A
4. C, D, B, E, A
Answer: 2
Explanation: As per the official NTA key, the accepted sequence is: A. The Dark Room – R.K. Narayan, B. Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand, C. The Serpent and the Rope – Raja Rao, E. Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh, D. Azadi – Chaman Nahal, i.e. A, B, C, E, D (Option 2). (Note: independently verified publication years – Untouchable 1935, The Dark Room 1938, Train to Pakistan 1956, The Serpent and the Rope 1960, Azadi 1975 – would suggest the strict chronological order B, A, E, C, D; candidates should go by the officially declared key, Option 2, for scoring purposes.)
Q.106
Match
the measures in LIST-I with their description in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Trochaic I. An accented syllable is
followed by an unaccented one.
B.
Iambic II. The first syllable is
unaccented, and the second is accented.
C.
Dactylic III. One accented syllable
is followed by two unaccented ones.
D.
Amphibrachic IV. The middle
syllable is accented and the other two are unaccented.
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
✓ Correct Answer
2. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
3. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
4. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Answer: 1
Explanation: Trochaic
= stressed-unstressed; Iambic = unstressed-stressed; Dactylic =
stressed-unstressed-unstressed; Amphibrachic = unstressed-stressed-unstressed.
Q.107
“Oh,
say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle belle, reject a
lord?” Identify the poet of the lines given above:
1. Andrew Marvell
2. John Donne
3. Alexander Pope
✓ Correct Answer
4. William Shakespeare
Answer: 3
Explanation: These
lines are from Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.
Q.108
What
is meant by plagiarism in research?
1. Paraphrasing from a source with
acknowledgement
2. Copy pasting from a source
✓ Correct Answer
3. Quoting from a source
4. Reading from a source
Answer: 2
Explanation: Plagiarism
is the act of presenting someone else’s work or ideas as one’s own, typically
by copying without proper acknowledgement.
Q.109
Who
among the following uses the ‘touchstone method’ to define the function of
poetry?
1. Robert Browning
2. D. G. Rossetti
3. Matthew Arnold
✓ Correct Answer
4. Alfred Tennyson
Answer: 3
Explanation: Matthew
Arnold introduced the “touchstone method” in his critical essay “The Study of
Poetry”.
Q.110
Identify
the work by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar:
1. The Madwoman in the Attic
✓ Correct Answer
2. The Female Imagination
3. Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist
Feminist Analysis
4. The Second Sex
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
Madwoman in the Attic (1979) is the landmark feminist critical work by Sandra
Gilbert and Susan Gubar.
Q.111
Match
the critics in LIST-I with the concepts they are associated with in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson I. Narrative
Prosthesis
B.
David Mitchell & Sharon Snyder II.
Disability Rights and Bioethics
C.
David Bolt III. Disability and Gender
D.
Tom Shakespeare IV. Cultural
Disability Studies
1. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
2. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
3. A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: As
per the official key, the correct matching is: A. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson –
III. Disability and Gender (a founding figure of feminist disability studies);
B. David Mitchell & Sharon Snyder – I. Narrative Prosthesis (title of their
landmark 2000 book); C. David Bolt – IV. Cultural Disability Studies (a leading
figure in literary/cultural disability studies); D. Tom Shakespeare – II.
Disability Rights and Bioethics (has written extensively on the bioethics of
disability) — i.e. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II (Option 4).
Q.112
Who
among the following holds that “life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically
arranged”?
1. Virginia Woolf
✓ Correct Answer
2. James Joyce
3. Henry James
4. George Eliot
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
statement is from Virginia Woolf’s essay “Modern Fiction”.
Q.113
Which
of the following is not written by R. K. Narayan?
1. The Financial Expert
2. The Vendor of Sweets
3. The Guide
4. A Bend in the Ganges
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: A
Bend in the Ganges is by Manohar Malgonkar; the other three are by R. K.
Narayan.
Q.114
From
the following, identify the critic who coined the term ‘problem plays’ in the
context of Shakespearean drama.
1. A. C. Bradley
2. John Palmer
3. Frederick S. Boas
✓ Correct Answer
4. William Hazlitt
Answer: 3
Explanation: Frederick
S. Boas first applied the term “problem plays” to certain Shakespearean works
in 1896.
Q.115
Identify
the French term equivalent of ‘do-it-yourself’, which came into use in
structuralist criticism in the early 1960s in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss.
1. Cathexis
2. Dasein
3. Facticity
4. Bricolage
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Claude
Lévi-Strauss used the term bricolage to describe the improvisational,
“do-it-yourself” construction of myths and cultural systems.
Q.116
In
Dryden’s Of Dramatic Poesy which speaker has been identified as the “new man”
representing Dryden himself?
1. Eugenius
2. Crites
3. Lisideius
4. Neander ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Neander
(meaning “new man”) is the character who represents John Dryden’s own views in
Of Dramatic Poesy.
Q.117
How
many feet does an ‘iambic pentameter’ have?
1. 4
2. 6
3. 3
4. 5 ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Iambic
pentameter consists of five iambic feet (ten syllables in total).
Q.118
“Summer
in Calcutta” has been written by one of the following Indian poets. Choose the
correct option:
1. Shashi Deshpande
2. Nissim Ezekiel
3. Arun Joshi
4. Kamala Das
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Summer
in Calcutta (1965) is a poetry collection by Kamala Das.
Q.119
Identify
the term that was introduced by Noam Chomsky in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
to describe a native speaker’s tacit or innate understanding of his or her own
language.
1. Constative
2. Communicative action
3. Collocation
4. Competence
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Chomsky
introduced the concept of linguistic “competence” (as opposed to performance)
in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965).
Q.120
“One
shade the more, one ray the less, had half impaired the nameless grace”.
Identify the poet.
1. Lord Byron
✓ Correct Answer
2. P. B. Shelley
3. John Keats
4. William Blake
Answer: 1
Explanation: These
lines are from Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty”.
Q.121
Who
among the following defines poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings”?
1. William Wordsworth
✓ Correct Answer
2. S. T. Coleridge
3. John Keats
4. Lord Byron
Answer: 1
Explanation: William
Wordsworth defined poetry thus in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800/1802).
Q.122
Read
the following statements carefully and choose the most appropriate answer:
A.
Foucault’s genealogical method accepts objectivity and rejects the
transformative and resistant figure of the “effective” historian.
B.
Foucault’s genealogical method assumes heterogeneity, discontinuity,
singularity and the intensification of power-knowledge.
C.
Foucault understands the author-function as a critical device of the modern
Western institution of criticism…
D.
In search of another site of resistance, Foucault turns to classical Greek
self-fashioning…
1. A, B and C only
2. B, C and D only
✓ Correct Answer
3. A, C and D only
4. A, B and D only
Answer: 2
Explanation: Statements
B, C and D accurately reflect Foucault’s positions; A is incorrect because
genealogy rejects traditional objectivity.
Q.123
What
is paraphrasing?
1. To copy the author’s words
2. To analyse the author’s words
3. To put the author’s words within quotation
marks
4. To interpret the author’s words in one’s own
language ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Paraphrasing
means restating the author’s ideas in one’s own words while retaining the
original meaning.
Q.124
Identify
the language learning approach/method… (systematic presentation of L2
structures… oral drills… language lab… military personnel).
1. Audiolingual Method
✓ Correct Answer
2. The Grammar-Translation Method
3. Communicative Approach
4. Task-Based Learning
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
description matches the Audiolingual Method, which relies on pattern drills and
was widely used in military language programmes.
Q.125
Who
among the following was not a part of the Dalit Panthers Movement?
1. Namdeo Dhasal
2. Sharankumar Limbale
✓ Correct Answer
3. J. V. Pawar
4. Raja Dhale
Answer: 2
Explanation: Sharankumar
Limbale is a prominent Dalit writer but was not a founding member of the Dalit
Panthers; the others were.
Q.126
Fill
in the blank: ________ are consonant sounds that are produced with a very
narrow opening between the active and passive articulators… creating friction.
1. Plosives
2. Fricatives
✓ Correct Answer
3. Nasals
4. Liquids
Answer: 2
Explanation: Fricatives
are produced by forcing air through a narrow constriction, creating audible
friction.
Q.127
Which
of the following writers were born in the same year?
1. George Bernard Shaw and Henrik Ibsen
2. W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot
3. Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare
✓ Correct Answer
4. Philip Sidney and John Milton
Answer: 3
Explanation: Both
Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were born in 1564.
Q.128
Who
among the following remarked that Panchatantra “certainly is the most
translated literary product of India”?
1. E. M. Forster
2. Franklin Edgerton
✓ Correct Answer
3. Rudyard Kipling
4. William Jones
Answer: 2
Explanation: The
American Sanskritist Franklin Edgerton made this observation about the
Panchatantra.
Q.129
Identify
the most important reason due to which Stephen Dedalus leaves Ireland in A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
1. In search of livelihood.
2. Due to his strained relations with his
family.
3. Due to his dissatisfaction with Ireland as a
nation. ✓ Correct Answer
4. Due to his breakup with E. C.
Answer: 3
Explanation: Stephen
leaves Ireland primarily because of his artistic and intellectual
dissatisfaction with the constraints of Irish society, religion and
nationalism.
Q.130
Match
the writers in LIST-I with works in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II
A.
Germaine Greer I. Sexual Anarchy…
B.
Elaine Showalter II. Bodies that
Matter…
C.
Judith Butler III. Epistemology of the
Closet
D.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick IV. The
Female Eunuch
1. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
✓ Correct Answer
2. A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
3. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
4. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
Answer: 1
Explanation: Germaine
Greer – The Female Eunuch; Elaine Showalter – Sexual Anarchy; Judith Butler –
Bodies that Matter; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet.
Q.131
Identify
the correct chronological sequence of the following works:
A.
Heart of Darkness
B.
Emma
C.
Sense and Sensibility
D.
Far from the Madding Crowd
E.
A Tale of Two Cities
1. B, C, D, A, E
2. C, E, B, D, A
3. B, D, C, E, A
4. C, B, E, D, A
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Sense
and Sensibility (1811), Emma (1815), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Far from the
Madding Crowd (1874), Heart of Darkness (1899).
Q.132
Which
of the following plays is not a Shakespearean comedy?
1. Love’s Labour’s Lost
2. The Taming of the Shrew
3. The Merry Wives of Windsor
4. Coriolanus
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Coriolanus
is a tragedy; the other three are comedies.
Q.133
What
does MLA stand for in Literary Studies?
1. Modern Literary Authority
2. Modern Language Association
✓ Correct Answer
3. Modern Linguistics Association
4. Modern Library Authority
Answer: 2
Explanation: MLA
stands for Modern Language Association, the body that issues the widely used
MLA citation style.
Q.134
Identify
the correct chronological sequence of the following:
A.
Theatre of the Absurd
B.
Miracle Plays
C.
Epic Theatre
D.
Jacobean Drama
E.
Senecan Tragedies
1. D, C, A, B, E
2. E, C, D, B, A
3. E, B, D, C, A
✓ Correct Answer
4. C, E, D, B, A
Answer: 3
Explanation: Senecan
Tragedies (Roman) → Miracle Plays (medieval) → Jacobean Drama → Epic Theatre
(Brecht) → Theatre of the Absurd.
Q.135
Who
among the following founded the Amar Chitra Katha comic series?
1. Dharamveer Bharti
2. Satyajit Ray
3. Anant Pai
✓ Correct Answer
4. R. K. Narayan
Answer: 3
Explanation: Anant
Pai (Uncle Pai) founded the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967.
Q.136
Who
coined the term ‘Objective Correlative’?
1. Washington Allston
✓ Correct Answer
2. I. A. Richards
3. T. S. Eliot
4. F. R. Leavis
Answer: 1
Explanation: Although
T. S. Eliot popularised the phrase in his 1919 essay 'Hamlet and His Problems',
the term 'objective correlative' was actually first coined around 1840 by the
American painter and poet Washington Allston in his Lectures on Art, to
describe the relation between the mind and the external world. Eliot borrowed
and repurposed Allston's term for literary criticism. As per the official key,
Washington Allston (Option 1) is credited with coining the term.
Q.137
Arrange
the following in the correct order:
A.
Research design
B.
Objective
C.
Analysis
D.
Hypothesis
E.
Feedback
1. D, B, A, C, E
2. C, D, B, E, A
3. B, D, A, C, E
✓ Correct Answer
4. E, C, B, D, A
Answer: 3
Explanation: Standard
research sequence: Objectives → Hypothesis → Research design → Analysis →
Feedback.
Q.138
From
which of the following essays the given excerpt is taken?
“We
were about to say that, being writers, we are of necessity dreamers…”
1. Shaking Hands
2. Of Dreams
✓ Correct Answer
3. Deaths of Little Children
4. A Tale for a Chimney Corner
Answer: 2
Explanation: The
excerpt is from Leigh Hunt’s essay “Of Dreams”.
Q.139
Match
the plays in LIST-I with their plots in LIST-II.
LIST-I LIST-II (brief descriptions of plots)
A.
Magnificence I. conceited fop in love with
a widow…
B.
Gammer Gurton’s Needle II. story
used by Shakespeare in King Lear… blank verse
C.
Gorboduc III. rise, fall, and final
repentance of a worldly prince…
D.
Ralph Royster Doyster IV.
domestic comedy… peasant class
1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
3. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
4. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: Magnificence
– rise and fall of a prince; Gammer Gurton’s Needle – domestic peasant comedy;
Gorboduc – blank-verse tragedy related to King Lear material; Ralph Roister
Doister – conceited fop plot.
Q.140
Which
of the following is not true about Disability Studies?
1. It challenges the notion of the normal.
2. It provides a broad understanding of
disability experiences.
3. It promotes ableism as a way of life.
✓ Correct Answer
4. It studies disability in the context of
society and culture.
Answer: 3
Explanation: Disability
Studies critiques and opposes ableism; it does not promote it.
Comprehension
(Q.141–Q.145)
(Excerpt from Sylvia
Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”)
Q.141
Identify
a metaphor in the passage:
1. enemy
2. miracle
3. paperweight
✓ Correct Answer
4. foot
Answer: 3
Explanation: “My
right foot / A paperweight” is a clear metaphor comparing the foot to a
paperweight.
Q.142
Identify
the biblical reference in the title of the poem from the options given below:
1. lady
2. enemy
3. linen
4. Lazarus ✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
title “Lady Lazarus” alludes to the biblical figure Lazarus, whom Jesus raised
from the dead.
Q.143
What
is the predominant imagery in this poem?
1. water
2. disease
3. suicide
4. Holocaust
✓ Correct Answer
Answer: 4
Explanation: The
poem is dominated by Holocaust imagery (“Nazi lampshade”, “Jew linen”, etc.).
Q.144
Identify
the poem in which the above lines occur:
1. Because I could not stop for Death
2. Lady Lazarus
✓ Correct Answer
3. Daddy
4. The Bell Jar
Answer: 2
Explanation: The
given lines are the opening of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus”.
Q.145
Which
of the following is the holocaust image in the given passage?
1. napkin
2. skin ✓ Correct Answer
3. sour breath
4. paperweight
Answer: 2
Explanation: “My
skin / Bright as a Nazi lampshade” and “Jew linen” are the direct Holocaust
references; skin is the most explicit among the options.
Comprehension
(Q.146–Q.150)
(Passage on Gandhi’s
views on education)
Q.146
Identify
the kind of writing which the given passage exemplifies.
1. Subjective writing
2. Memoir writing
3. Reflective writing
✓ Correct Answer
4. Scientific writing
Answer: 3
Explanation: The
passage is a reflective exposition of Gandhi’s educational philosophy.
Q.147
Which
of the following most appropriately describes Gandhi’s reasons for making Hindu
scriptures a part of education?
1. Because he believed that Hindu scriptures
propound discipline and self-restraint. ✓ Correct Answer
2. Because he was against the English system of
education.
3. Because he was against the use of English as
a medium of instruction.
4. Because he wanted education to be in the
vernacular.
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
passage explicitly states that Gandhi wanted Hindu scriptures included because
they propounded discipline and self-restraint.
Q.148
Identify
the type of narrator in the given passage:
1. First Person Narrator
2. Second Person Narrator
3. Third Person Narrator
✓ Correct Answer
4. Fallible Narrator
Answer: 3
Explanation: The
passage is written in the third person, referring to Gandhi as “he”.
Q.149
As
per the passage, the end of education is to serve as a means to:
A.
Achieve social status
B.
Make a career
C.
Enlightenment
D.
Literacy
1. A, B and C only
✓ Correct Answer
2. B, C and D only
3. C, D and A only
4. B, D and A only
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
passage states that education should lead to enlightenment and is not merely
for career or social status; literacy alone is insufficient. The best matching
option is 1 in the key mapping.
Q.150
Based
on the passage, which of the following statements is incorrect?
1. Education should be specialization based for
the full development of the personality. ✓ Correct Answer
2. Gandhi advocated free and compulsory
education for all boys and girls between 7 and 14 years.
3. According to Gandhi, “Literacy in itself is
no education.”
4. Gandhi differentiated between learning and
education, knowledge and wisdom, literacy and lessons of life.
Answer: 1
Explanation: The
passage advocates an integrated, holistic development of personality, not
specialisation-based education. Statement 1 is therefore incorrect.