UGC NET English 2024 Question Paper & Answers
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UGC NET English 2024 (December 2024 / January 2025 cycle, Paper 2)
120 Mins 192 Marks
96Questions
192Max Marks
Sample questions from UGC NET English 2024 (December 2024 / January 2025 cycle, Paper 2)
1Who among the following is credited with ending the system of patronage with his “Letter to Lord Chesterfield”?
- A) Bishop Berkeley
- B) Samuel Johnson
- C) Edmund Burke
- D) Horace Walpole
Answer: B
2Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
LIST-I (Novel) LIST-II (Novelist) A. The Childhood of Jesus B. The Go-Between C. Brideshead Revisited D. The Catcher in tde Rye I. L. P. Hartley II. Evelyn Waugh III. J. M. Coetzee IV. J. D. Salinger
- A) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
- B) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
- C) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
- D) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
Answer: B
3Which of the following works of R. K. Narayan were published after independence?
A. The Dark Room
B. The English Teacher
C. The Financial Expert
D. Swami and Friends
E. The Guide
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A) A and B only
- B) B and D only
- C) C and E only
- D) A and D only
Answer: C
4The line “Thou still unravished bride of quietness” presents which of the following rhetorical figures?
- A) Anastrophe
- B) Apostrophe
- C) Anaphora
- D) Chiasmus
Answer: B
5Which of the following is not an autobiography?
- A) Patrick White : A Life
- B) Long Walk to Freedom
- C) My Experiments with Truth
- D) Akkarmashi (The Outcaste)
Answer: A
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Official PYQ
UGC NET English 2024 (June 2024 cycle re-exam, Paper 2)
120 Mins 200 Marks
100Questions
200Max Marks
Sample questions from UGC NET English 2024 (June 2024 cycle re-exam, Paper 2)
1Which statement among the following rightly defines an 'epithet'?
- A) An adjective/adjectival phrase that condemns the protagonist of a story/novel.
- B) An adjective/adjectival phrase used to define a characteristic quality or attribute of some person or thing.
- C) An adjective/adjectival phrase suited for inscription on a tomb or memorial.
- D) A rhetorical figure by which the same word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive lines.
Answer: B
2Who among the following invented 'inscape' and 'instress'?
- A) I. A. Richards
- B) W.K. Wimsatt
- C) William Faulkner
- D) G.M. Hopkins
Answer: D
3A 'palindrome' is ______.
- A) A recantation in song or verse.
- B) A play on words by alteration of letters.
- C) A word or sentence which reads the same both ways.
- D) A sequence of clauses or sentences which have a symmetrical structure.
Answer: C
4In his work, The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard announced the eclipse of all grand narratives and sought to declare the death of -
- A) Keynesian Equilibrium
- B) Christian Redemption
- C) Classical Socialism
- D) Hegelian Spirit
Answer: C
5What was the name of the first ship to transport indentured labourers from India to Trinidad and Tobago in 1845?
- A) Duchess of Argyle
- B) Futtle Rozack
- C) Bangalore
- D) Duke of Bedford
Answer: B
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