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UGC NET Paper-II English Syllabus consists of: 

Drama
Poetry
Fiction & short story
Non-Fictional Prose
English in India: history, evolution, and futures
Literary Criticism
Research Methods, and Materials in English
Language: Basic concepts, theories, and pedagogy.
English in Use
Cultural Studies
Literary Theory post World War II.

UGC NTA NET JRF English Previous Papers Questions
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1. Which of the following characters from Eliot’s Waste Land is not correctly mentioned?
2. “Topsy” appears in :
3. Shakespeare criticism by :
4. The main idea of ‘The Dunciad’ was taken from:
5. The correct pair is:
6. Identify the Fireside poets of the US.
7. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century :
8. Match List-I with List-II according to the code given below :
List-I List-II
(Character) (Work)
i. Telemachus 1. Notes from underground
ii. Anya 2. Old Goriot
iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry Orchard
iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey Codes:
i ii iii iv
9. The Montreal group of poets championed the cause of :
10. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
11. Which of the following books was not published in 1859?
12. Goethe’s ‘Faust’ (Part I, Scene 1) opens in:
13. Match the following opening lines with their respective titles:
(1) “I leant upon a (i) “Thirteen coppice gate” Blackbirds”
(2) “A sudden blow : (ii) “Sympathy” the great wings beating still”
(3) “Among twenty (iii) “The Darkling snowy mountains” Thrush”
(4) “I know what the (iv) “Leda and the caged bird feels, Swan” alas….” Code
(1) (2) (3) (4)
14. The poet who described poetry as 'Inspired mathematics' is :
15. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?
16. Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot’s novel :
17. Assertion (A) : “Tam O’ Shanter” by John Clare is about the experience of an ordinary human being and became quite popular during that time.
Reason (R) : John Clare, having suffered bouts of madness, could really feel for the misery of common man.
In the context of the two statements, which of the following is correct ?
18. 'He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical performance of ….is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our language.' To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement?
19. 'Did he who made the Lamb made thee' appears in :
20. A poem that captures the essence of a moment in a simple image is :
21. The plays of Edward Albee deal with:
22. Tom Paine’s ‘The Rights of Man’ was published in :
23. The French Revolution had a significant impact on:
24. Which post-War British poet ends a poem with the line, “Get Stewed : Books are a load of crap”?
25. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ has :