GATE 2023 Humanities and Social Sciences – English (XH-C2)
Organizing Institute: IIT Kanpur
General Aptitude (GA)
Q.1 – Q.5 Carry ONE mark Each
Q.1 Rafi told
Mary, “I am thinking of watching a film this weekend.”
The following
reports the above statement in indirect speech:
Rafi told Mary
that he _______ of watching a film that weekend.
(A) thought
(B) is thinking
(C) am thinking
(D) was thinking
Answer: D
Q.2 Permit :
_______ : : Enforce : Relax
(By word
meaning)
(A) Allow
(B) Forbid
(C) License
(D) Reinforce
Answer: B
Q.3 Given a
fair six-faced dice where the faces are labelled ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, and
‘6’,
what is the probability of getting a ‘1’ on the first roll of the dice and a ‘4’ on the second roll?
(A) 1/36
(B) 1/6
(C) 5/6
(D) 1/3
Answer: A
Q.4 A recent survey shows that 65% of tobacco users were advised to stop consuming tobacco. The survey also shows that 3 out of 10 tobacco users attempted to stop using tobacco. Based only on the information in the above passage, which one of the following options can be logically inferred with certainty?
(A) A majority of tobacco users who were advised to stop consuming tobacco made an attempt to do so.
(B) A majority of tobacco users who were advised to stop consuming tobacco did not attempt to do so.
(C)
Approximately 30% of tobacco users successfully stopped consuming tobacco.
(D)
Approximately 65% of tobacco users successfully stopped consuming tobacco.
Answer: B
Q.5 How many
triangles are present in the given figure?
(A) 12
(B) 16
(C) 20
(D) 24
Answer: C
Q.6 – Q.10 Carry TWO marks Each
Q.6 Students of all the departments of a college who have successfully completed the registration process are eligible to vote in the upcoming college elections. However, by the time the due date for registration was over, it was found that suprisingly none of the students from the Department of Human Sciences had completed the registration process.
Based only on the information provided above, which one of the following sets of statement(s) can be logically inferred with certainty?
(i) All those students who would not be eligible to vote in the college elections would certainly belong to the Department of Human Sciences.
(ii) None of the students from departments other than Human Sciences failed to complete the registration process within the due time.
(iii) All the eligible voters would certainly be students who are not from the Department of Human Sciences.
(A) (i) and
(ii)
(B) (i) and
(iii)
(C) only (i)
(D) only (iii)
Answer: D
Q.7 Which one
of the following options represents the given graph?
Answer: B
Q.8 Which one
of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it?
We tend to think of cancer as a ‘modern’ illness because its metaphors are so modern. It is a disease of overproduction, of sudden growth, a growth that is unstoppable, tipped into the abyss of no control. Modern cell biology encourages us to imagine the cell as a molecular machine. Cancer is that machine unable to quench its intial command (to grow) and thus transform into an indestructible, self-propelled automaton.
[Adapted from
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee]
(A) It is a
reflection of why cancer seems so modern to most of us.
(B) It tells us
that modern cell biology uses and promotes metaphors of machinery.
(C) Modern cell biology encourages metaphors of machinery, and cancer is often imagined as a machine.
(D) Modern cell biology never uses figurative language, such as metaphors, to describe or explain anything.
Answer: D
Q.9 The digit
in the unit’s place of the product 3999 x 71000 is
_______.
(A) 7
(B) 1
(C) 3
(D) 9
Answer: A
Q.10 A square with sides of length 6 cm is given. The boundary of the shaded region is defined by two semi-circles whose diameters are the sides of the square, as shown.
The area of the
shaded region is _______ cm2
(A) 6π
(B) 18
(C) 20
(D) 9π
Answer: B
Reasoning and Comprehension – B1
Q.11 – Q.17 Carry ONE mark Each
Q.11 Which word
below best describes the idea of being both Spineless and Cowardly?
(A)
Pusillanimous
(B) Unctuous
(C) Obsequious
(D) Reticent
Answer: A
Q.12 Choose the
right preposition to fill up the blank:
The whole
family got together ___ Diwali
(A) of
(B) at
(C) in
(D) till
Answer: B
Q.13 Select the
correct option to fill in all the blanks to complete the passage:
The (i)_______
factor amid this turbulence has been the (ii)________ of highoctane,
action-oriented films such as RRR, K.G.F: Chapter 2 and Pushpa from film industries
in the south of the country. Traditionally, films made in the south have done well in their own (iii) _________. But
increasingly, their dubbed versions have performed well in the Hindi heartland,
with collections (iv)________ those of their Bollywood counterparts.
(A) (i)
disheartening (ii) failure (iii) channels (iv) matching
(B) (i)
redeeming (ii) outperformance (iii) geographies (iv) eclipsing
(C) (i)
shocking (ii) underperformance (iii) cinemas (iv) below
(D) (i)
humbling (ii) bombing (iii) theatres (iv) falling behind
Answer: B
Q.14 The
following passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the
passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four sentences
(represented by 2, 3, 4, and 5) are jumbled up.
Choose the
correct sequence of the sentences so that they form a coherent paragraph:
1. Most
obviously, mobility is taken to be a geographical as well as a social phenomenon.
2. Much of the
social mobility literature regarded society as a uniform surface and failed to
register the geographical intersections of region, city and place, with the
social categories of class, gender and ethnicity.
3. The existing
sociology of migration is incidentally far too limited in its concerns to be
very useful here.
4. Further, I
am concerned with the flows of people within, but especially beyond, the
territory of each society, and how these flows may relate to many different desires,
for work, housing, leisure, religion, family relationships, criminal gain, asylum
seeking and so on.
5. Moreover,
not only people are mobile but so too are many ‘objects’.
6. I show that
sociology’s recent development of a ‘sociology of objects’ needs to be taken
further and that the diverse flows of objects across societal borders and their
intersections with the multiple flows of people are hugely significant.
(A) 3, 2, 5, 4
(B) 2, 3, 4, 5
(C) 5, 4, 3, 2
(D) 4, 2, 5, 3
Answer: B
Q.15 The
population of a country increased by 5% from 2020 to 2021. Then, the population
decreased by 5% from 2021 to 2022. By what percentage did the population change
from 2020 to 2022?
(A) -0.25%
(B) 0%
(C) 2.5%
(D) 10.25%
Q.16 The words Thin:
Slim: Slender are related in some way. Identify the correct option(s) that
reflect(s) the same relationship:
(A) Fat: Plump:
Voluptuous
(B) Short:
Small: Petite
(C) Tall:
Taller: Tallest
(D) Fair: Dark:
Wheatish
Answer: A, B
Q.17 A pandemic
like situation hit the country last year, resulting in loss of human life and
economic depression. To improve the condition of its citizens, the government made
a series of emergency medical interventions and increased spending to revive the
economy. In both these efforts, district administration authorities were
actively involved.
Which of the
following action(s) are plausible?
(A) In future,
the government can make district administration authorities responsible for
protecting health of citizens and reviving the economy.
(B) The
government may set up a task force to review the post pandemic situation and ascertain
the effectiveness of the measures taken.
(C) The
government may set up a committee to formulate a pandemic management program to
minimize losses to life and economy in future.
(D) The
government may take population control measures to minimize pandemic related
losses in future.
Answer: B, C
Q.18 – Q.26 Carry TWO marks Each
Q.18 Six
students, Arif, Balwinder, Chintu, David, Emon and Fulmoni appeared in the GATE-XH
exam in 2022. Balwinder scores less than Chintu in XH-B1, but more than Arif in
XH-C1. David scores more than Balwinder in XH-C1, and more than Chintu in
XH-B1. Emon scores less than David, but more than Fulmoni in XH-B1.
Fulmoni scores
more than David in XH-C1. Arif scores less than Emon, but more than Fulmoni in
XH-B1. Who scores highest in XH-B1?
(A) Fulmoni
(B) Emon
(C) David
(D) Chintu
Answer: C
Q.19 Select the
correct relation between E and F.
(A) E > F
(B) E < F
(C) E = F
(D) E < -F
Answer: B
Q.20 A code
language is formulated thus:
Vowels in the
original word are replaced by the next vowel from the list of vowels, A-E-I-O-U
(For example, E is replaced by I and U is replaced by A). Consonants in the
original word are replaced by previous consonant (For example, T is replaced by
S and V is replaced by T).
Then how does
the word, GOODMORNING appear in the coded language?
(A) HUUFNUSPOPH
(B) FIICLIQMEMF
(C) FUUCLUQMOMF
(D) HEEDATTACRH
Answer: C
Q.21 The stranger is by nature no "owner of soil" -- soil not only in the physical, but also in the figurative sense of a life-substance, which is fixed, if not in a point in space, at least in an ideal point of the social environment. Although in more intimate relations, he may develop all kinds of charm and significance, as long as he is considered a stranger in the eyes of the other, he is not an "owner of soil."
Restriction to
intermediary trade, and often (as though sublimated from it) to pure finance,
gives him the specific character of mobility. If mobility takes place within a
closed group, it embodies that synthesis of nearness and distance which
constitutes the formal position of the stranger. For, the fundamentally mobile
person comes in contact, at one time or another, with every individual, but is
not organically connected, through established ties of kinship, locality, and
occupation, with any single one.
What
assumptions can be made about the stranger from the passage above?
(A) The
stranger can become an owner of soil through developing all kinds of charm in more
intimate relations.
(B) The
stranger cannot become an owner of soil either in the physical or psychological
sense.
(C) The
stranger can become an owner of soil through establishing ties of kinship and so
on.
(D) The
stranger might become an owner of soil in the physical sense but not in the psychological
Answer: B
Q.22 L is the
only son of A and S. S has one sibling, B, who is married to L’s aunt, K. B is
the only son of D. How are L and D related?
Select the
possible option(s):
(A) Grandchild
and Paternal Grandfather
(B) Grandchild
and Maternal Grandfather
(C) Grandchild
and Paternal Grandmother
(D) Grandchild
and Maternal Grandmother
Answer: B, D
Q.23 Five
segments of a sentence are given below. The first and fifth segments are at their
correct positions, while the middle three segments (represented by 2, 3, and 4)
are jumbled up. Choose the correct order of the segments so that they form a coherent sentence:
1. Consumed
multitudes are jostling and shoving inside me
2. and guided
only by the memory of a large white bedsheet with a roughly circular hole some
seven inches in diameter cut into the center,
3. clutching at
the dream of that holey, mutilated square of linen, which is my talisman, my
open- sesame,
4. I must
commence the business of remaking my life from the point at which it really
began,
5. some
thirty-two years before anything as obvious, as present, as my clockridden,
crime-stained birth.
(A) 2 – 3 – 4
(B) 3 – 2– 4
(C) 4 – 2– 3
(D) 4 – 3 – 2
Answer: A
Q.24 “I told
you the truth,” I say yet again, “Memory’s truth, because memory has its own
special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes,
glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its
heterogeneous but usually coherent versions of events; and no sane human being
ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.”
What are the
different ways in which ‘truth’ can be understood from the passage?
(A) Truth is
what can be verified by hard empirical evidence.
(B) Truth is
based on what can be perceived by the senses.
(C) Truth is
the product of memory that is fallible, selective and slanted.
(D) Truth is
contingent on the observer and can only be partial.
Answer: C,D
Q.25 A firm
needs both skilled labour and unskilled labour for the production of cloth.
The wage of
skilled labour is Rs. 40,000 per month, and that of unskilled labour is Rs.
15,000 per month.
The total wage
bill of the firm for the production of cloth is Rs. 23,75,000 in a month for
100 labour.
How many
skilled labour are employed by the firm (in Integer)?
Answer: 35 TO 35
Q.26 Select the
odd word and write the option number as answer:
(1) Lek
(2) Zloty
(3) Diner
(4) Drachma
(5) Real
Q.27 – Q.44 Carry ONE mark Each
Q.27 Who
published the novel The Bell Jar under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas?
(A) Dorothy
Richardson
(B) Virginia
Woolf
(C) Sylvia
Plath
(D) Alice
Walker
Answer: C
Q.28 In which
collection did Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” first appear?
(A) Two
Rivulets
(B) November
Boughs
(C) The Golden
Bough
(D) Leaves of
Grass
Answer: D
Q.29 Who wrote
the introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali?
(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) W. B. Yeats
Answer: D
Q.30 Identify
the title of the poem in which the following lines appear:
“He was found
by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against
whom there was no official complaint,
And all the
reports on his conduct agree
That, in the
modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint
For in
everything he did he served the greater community.”
(A) “In Memory
of W. B. Yeats”
(B) “The
Unknown Citizen”
(C) “In Praise
of Limestone”
(D) “On this
Island”
Answer: B
Q.31 Identify
the point of view used in the following passage:
“You are not
the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning.
But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar,
though the details are fuzzy.”
(A)
Third-person point of view
(B) The limited
point of view
(C)
Second-person point of view
(D)
First-person point of view
Answer: C
Q.32 Which of
the following is a novel by Charles Dickens?
(A) The Old
Curiosity Shop
(B) The Old
Wives’ Tale
(C) The Old
Bachelor
(D) One Hundred
Years of Solitude
Answer: A
Q.33 Which
linguistic process can be seen in the formation of the following words?
i. smog, ii.
brunch, iii. motel iv. telecast
(A) Borrowing
(B) Compounding
(C) Blending
(D)
Backformation
Answer: C
Q.34 Which
writer is credited with the ‘chutneyfication’ of Indian English?
(A) Raja Rao
(B) Salman
Rushdie
(C) Amitav
Ghosh
(D) Arundhati Roy
Answer: B
Q.35 Whom would
you associate the term ‘simulacra’ with?
(A) Noam
Chomsky
(B) Jean
Baudrillard
(C) Félix
Guattari
(D) Michel
Foucault
Answer: B
Q.36 In Plato’s
idea of the Republic there is no place for the ___________.
(A) Lawyer
(B) Magistrate
(C) Politician
(D) Poet
Q.37 What was
Aristotle’s definition of hubris?
(A) Tragic flaw
in a character
(B) A false
sense of pride which eventually causes the character’s downfall
(C) An ability
to imagine the future
(D) A humble,
ascetic quality
Q.38 Stephen
Dedalus is a recurring character in the works of _________.
(A) James Joyce
(B) H. G. Wells
(C) P. G.
Wodehouse
(D) D. H.
Lawrence
Q.39 Which of
the following novels opens with the sentence, “It is a truth universally acknowledged
that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”?
(A) Sense and
Sensibility
(B) Pride and
Prejudice
(C) Mansfield
Park
(D) Emma
Q.40 Which of
the following novels by Chinua Achebe derives its title from W. B. Yeats’s poem
“The Second Coming”?
(A) Arrow of
God
(B) No Longer
at Ease
(C) A Man of
the People
(D) Things Fall
Apart
Q.41 Identify
the novels that deal with the trauma of Partition:
(A) Shauna
Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers
(B) Amitav
Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines
(C) Anita
Desai’s Cry, the Peacock
(D) Kamala
Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve
Answer: A, B
Q.42 Which of
the following writers are associated with the Theatre of the Absurd?
(A) Harold
Pinter
(B) Edward
Albee
(C) John
Osborne
(D) Eugene
O’Neill
Answer: A, B
Q.43 Identify
the writers who are referred to as ‘metaphysical poets’:
(A) John Donne
(B) Andrew
Marvell
(C) Philip
Larkin
(D) T. S. Eliot
Answer: A, B
Q.44 What are
the sources of Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana?
(A) Thomas
Mann’s The Transported Heads
(B) Valmiki’s
Ramayana
(C) Somadeva’s
Kathasaritsagara
(D) Franz
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
Answer: A, C
Q.45– Q.65 Carry TWO marks Each
Q.45 Which of
the following terms are used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his theory of
imagination?
(A) Primary
imagination, secondary imagination, and fancy
(B) Negative
capability, Hellenism, and impersonality
(C) Egotistical
sublime, oversoul, and pantheism
(D)
Unacknowledged legislation, atheism, and anarchy
Answer: A
Q.46 Which of
the following is the forerunner of the autobiography?
(A) St.
Augustine’s Confessions
(B) James
Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(C) William
Wordsworth’s The Prelude
(D) Izaak
Walton’s Lives
Q.47 Which of
the following poems did Robert Browning intend to write as a play?
(A) “Men and
Women”
(B) “Dramatis
Personae”
(C) “The Inn
Album”
(D) “The Ring
and the Book”
Answer: C
Q.48 The ‘Age
of Reason’ in English literary history is popularly known as:
(A) The
Medieval Period
(B) The
Neo-classical Age
(C) The
Romantic Age
(D) The
Victorian Age
Q.49 Who first
translated Jacques Derrida’s work into English?
(A) Gayatri C.
Spivak
(B) Edward Said
(C) Harold
Bloom
(D) Paul de Man
Answer: A
Q.50 Identify
the ‘Lake Poets’:
(A) Byron,
Shelley, Keats
(B) Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron
(C) Byron,
Southey, Wordsworth
(D) Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Southey
Answer: D
Q.51 Choose
from the following options the type of drama that is intended by the author to
be read rather than to be performed:
(A) Kitchen
Sink Drama
(B) Closet
Drama
(C) Poetic
Drama
(D) Folk Drama
Answer: B
Q.52 Identify
the commonality shared by the authors of Mansfield Park and Middle March:
(A) Both the
novels were authored by men who were sent on exile.
(B) Both the
novels were authored by political prisoners.
(C) Both the
novels were written by children who were not allowed to publish their works.
(D) Both the
novels were written by women who wrote under pseudonyms.
Q.53 Who said,
“Poetry makes nothing happen”?
(A) Marianne
Moore
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Wallace
Stevens
(D) W. H. Auden
Answer: D
Q.54 Which
literary device does the following line employ?
“A timorous
foe, and a suspicious friend.”
(A) Antithesis
(B) Antistrophe
(C) Oxymoron
(D) Apostrophe
Q.55 Match the
following excerpts with their authors:
(P) “He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: ‘Please, Sir, I want some more’.”
(Q) “Studies
serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.”
(R) “Trust
thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
(S) “It was a
bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
(i) Ralph Waldo
Emerson
(ii) George
Orwell
(iii) Charles
Dickens
(iv) Francis
Bacon
(A) (P)-(iii),
(Q)-(iv), (R)-(i), (S)-(ii)
(B) (P)-(iv),
(Q)-(iii), (R)-(ii), (S)-(i)
(C) (P)-(iii),
(Q)-(ii), (R)-(i), (S)-(iv)
(D) (P)-(i),
(Q)-(iv), (R)-(ii), (S)-(iii)
Q.56 The 1667
edition of Paradise Lost had 10 books. How many more were added to the 1674
edition?
(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 6
(D) 12
Answer: A
Q.57 Read the
following poem and identify the appropriate options:
And search
for certain
thin –
stemmed,
bubble-eyed water bugs.
See them perch
on dry
capillary legs
weightless
on the ripple
skin
of a stream.
No, not only
prophets
walk on water.
This bug sits
on a landslide
of lights
and drowns eye
–
deep
into its tiny
strip
of sky.
(A) It uses
free verse form.
(B) It employs
imagery.
(C) It uses the
iambic pentameter.
(D) It
juxtaposes the non-human with the human.
Q.58 Which of
the following employ ‘Interior Monologue’?
(A) Alfred Lord
Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”
(B) The final
chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses
(C) T. S.
Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
(D) Robert
Browning’s “My Last Duchess”
Q.59 Which of
the following works may be described as novels in verse?
(A) Aurora
Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(B) The Golden
Gate by Vikram Seth
(C) Pamela by
Samuel Richardson
(D) Old
Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
Q.60 Which of
the following critics belong to the deconstructionist school?
(A) Jacques
Derrida
(B) Paul de Man
(C) J. Hillis
Miller
(D) Kate Soper
Answer: A, B, C
Q.61 Cleanth
Brooks’s definition of ‘paradox’ in poetry foregrounds the following qualities:
(A) Wonder and
irony
(B)
Contradiction and qualification
(C) Piety and
plurality
(D) Omniscience
and death of the author
Answer: A,B
Q.62 Two examples
of magic realist fiction include:
(A) Midnight’s
Children
(B) The Tin
Drum
(C) The English
Teacher
(D) Tom Jones
Answer: A,B
Q.63 Ferdinand
de Saussure differentiates language in terms of:
(A) langue
(B) metaphor
(C) metonymy
(D) parole
Answer: A,D
Q.64 Which of
the following are considered to be typical postmodern narratives?
(A) Italo
Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
(B) John
Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse
(C) Thomas
Pynchon’s V.
(D) Iris
Murdoch’s The Bell
Q.65 What does
a green reading of a text aim at?
(A) Analyzing
the implications of a text for environmental concerns
(B)
Deconstructing human exceptionalism
(C) Studying
connections between humans, society and the non-human world
(D)
Marginalizing differently abled people
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