UGC NET Past Year Question Paper II: English (December 2010) | UGC NET Past Year Papers PDF Download

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1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of
this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions.
3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet
will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested
to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below :
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper
seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet
without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet.
(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions in
the booklet with the information printed on the cover
page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions missing
or duplicate or not in serial order or any other
discrepancy should be got replaced immediately by a
correct booklet from the invigilator within the period
of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question Booklet
will be replaced nor any extra time will be given.
(iii) After this verification is over, the OMR Sheet Number
should be entered on this Test Booklet.
4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C)
and (D). Y ou have to darken the oval as indicated below on the
correct response against each item.
Example :
where (C) is the correct response.
5. Y our responses to the items are to be indicated in the Answer
Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at
any place other than in the ovals in the Answer Sheet, it will
not be evaluated.
6. Read instructions given inside carefully.
7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.
8. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the test
booklet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries,
which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself
liable to disqualification.
9. Y ou have to return the test question booklet and OMR Answer
sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination
compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the
Examination Hall.
10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers.
Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50
Instructions for the Candidates ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖÙ£ÖµÖÖë ?êú ×»Ö‹ ×­Ö¤ìü¿Ö
A B C D
A B C D
D-30-10 1 P.T.O.
1. ¯ÖÆü»Öê ¯Öéšü ?êú ‰ú¯Ö¸ü ×­ÖµÖŸÖ Ã£ÖÖ ­Ö ¯Ö¸ü †¯Ö­ÖÖ ¸üÖê»Ö ­Ö´²Ö¸ü ×»Ö×?Ö‹ …
2. ‡ÃÖ ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯Ö¡Ö ´Öë ¯Ö“ÖÖÃÖ ²ÖÆãü×¾Ö?ú»¯ÖßµÖ ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö Æïü …
3. ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ¯ÖÏÖ¸ü´³Ö ÆüÖê­Öê ¯Ö¸ü, ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¤êü ¤üß •ÖÖµÖê?Öß … ¯ÖÆü»Öê ¯ÖÖÑ“Ö
×´Ö­Ö™ü †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?ÖÖê»Ö­Öê ŸÖ£ÖÖ ˆÃÖ?úß ×­Ö´­Ö×»Ö×?ÖŸÖ •ÖÖÑ“Ö ?êú
×»Ö‹ פüµÖê •ÖÖµÖë?Öê, וÖÃÖ?úß •ÖÖÑ“Ö †Ö¯Ö?úÖê †¾Ö¿µÖ ?ú¸ü­Öß Æîü :
(i) ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?ÖÖê»Ö­Öê ?êú ×»Ö‹ ˆÃÖ?êú ?ú¾Ö¸ü ¯Öê•Ö ¯Ö¸ü »Ö?Öß ?úÖ?Ö•Ö ?úß
ÃÖᯙ ?úÖê ±úÖ›Íü »Öë … ?Öã»Öß Æãü‡Ô µÖÖ ×²Ö­ÖÖ Ã™üß?ú¸ü-ÃÖᯙ ?úß ¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ
þÖß?úÖ¸ü ­Ö ?ú¸ëü …
(ii) ?ú¾Ö¸ü ¯Öéšü ¯Ö¸ü ”û¯Öê ×­Ö¤ìü¿ÖÖ­ÖãÃÖÖ¸ü ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?êú ¯Öéšü ŸÖ£ÖÖ ¯ÖÏ¿­ÖÖë
?úß ÃÖÓ?µÖÖ ?úÖê †“”ûß ŸÖ¸üÆü “Öî?ú ?ú¸ü »Öë ×?ú µÖê ¯Öæ¸êü Æïü … ¤üÖêÂÖ¯Öæ?ÖÔ
¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ×•Ö­Ö´Öë ¯Öéšü/¯ÖÏ¿­Ö ?ú´Ö ÆüÖë µÖÖ ¤ãü²ÖÖ¸üÖ †Ö ?ÖµÖê ÆüÖë µÖÖ ÃÖß׸üµÖ»Ö
´Öë ­Ö ÆüÖë †£ÖÖÔŸÖ ×?úÃÖß ³Öß ¯ÖÏ?úÖ¸ü ?úß ¡Öã×™ü¯Öæ?ÖÔ ¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ Ã¾Öß?úÖ¸ü ­Ö
?ú¸ëü ŸÖ£ÖÖ ˆÃÖß ÃÖ´ÖµÖ ˆÃÖê »ÖÖî™üÖ?ú¸ü ˆÃÖ?êú ãÖÖ­Ö ¯Ö¸ü ¤æüÃÖ¸üß ÃÖÆüß
¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ »Öê »Öë … ‡ÃÖ?êú ×»Ö‹ †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¯ÖÖÑ“Ö ×´Ö­Ö™ü פüµÖê •ÖÖµÖë?Öê …
ˆÃÖ?êú ²ÖÖ¤ü ­Ö ŸÖÖê †Ö¯Ö?úß ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ¾ÖÖ¯ÖÃÖ »Öß •ÖÖµÖê?Öß †Öî¸ü ­Ö
Æüß †Ö¯Ö?úÖê †×ŸÖ׸üŒŸÖ ÃÖ´ÖµÖ ×¤üµÖÖ •ÖÖµÖê?ÖÖ …
(iii) ‡ÃÖ •ÖÖÑ“Ö ?êú ²ÖÖ¤ü OMR ¯Ö¡Ö?ú ?úß ?Îú´Ö ÃÖÓ?µÖÖ ‡ÃÖ ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ¯Ö¸ü
†Ó×?úŸÖ ?ú¸ü ¤ëü …
4. ¯ÖÏŸµÖê?ú ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö ?êú ×»Ö‹ “ÖÖ¸ü ˆ¢Ö¸ü ×¾Ö?ú»¯Ö (A), (B), (C) ŸÖ£ÖÖ (D) פüµÖê ?ÖµÖê
Æïü … †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ÃÖÆüß ˆ¢Ö¸ü ?êú ¤üß‘ÖÔ¾Öé¢Ö ?úÖê ¯Öê­Ö ÃÖê ³Ö¸ü?ú¸ü ?úÖ»ÖÖ ?ú¸ü­ÖÖ Æîü •ÖîÃÖÖ
×?ú ­Öß“Öê פü?ÖÖµÖÖ ?ÖµÖÖ Æîü …
ˆ¤üÖÆü¸ü?Ö :
•Ö²Ö×?ú (C) ÃÖÆüß ˆ¢Ö¸ü Æîü …
5. ¯ÖÏ¿­ÖÖë ?êú ˆ¢Ö¸ü ?êú¾Ö»Ö ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö ¯Ö¡Ö I ?êú †­¤ü¸ü פüµÖê ?ÖµÖê ˆ¢Ö¸ü-¯Ö¡Ö?ú ¯Ö¸ü Æüß †Ó×?úŸÖ
?ú¸ü­Öê Æïü … µÖפü †Ö¯Ö ˆ¢Ö¸ü ¯Ö¡Ö?ú ¯Ö¸ü פüµÖê ?ÖµÖê ¤üß‘ÖÔ¾Öé¢Ö ?êú †»ÖÖ¾ÖÖ ×?úÃÖß †­µÖ
ãÖÖ­Ö ¯Ö¸ü ˆ¢Ö¸ü דÖÅ­ÖÖÓ×?úŸÖ ?ú¸ŸÖê Æïü, ŸÖÖê ˆÃÖ?úÖ ´Ö滵ÖÖÓ?ú­Ö ­ÖÆüà ÆüÖê?ÖÖ …
6. †­¤ü¸ü פüµÖê ?ÖµÖê ×­Ö¤ìü¿ÖÖë ?úÖê ¬µÖÖ­Ö¯Öæ¾ÖÔ?ú ¯ÖœÍëü …
7. ?ú““ÖÖ ?úÖ´Ö (Rough Work) ‡ÃÖ ¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?êú †Û­ŸÖ´Ö ¯Öéšü ¯Ö¸ü ?ú¸ëü …
8. µÖפü †Ö¯Ö ˆ¢Ö¸ü-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ¯Ö¸ü †¯Ö­ÖÖ ­ÖÖ´Ö µÖÖ ‹êÃÖÖ ?úÖê‡Ô ³Öß ×­Ö¿ÖÖ­Ö ×•ÖÃÖÃÖê
†Ö¯Ö?úß ¯ÖÆü“ÖÖ­Ö ÆüÖê ÃÖ?êú, ×?úÃÖß ³Öß ³ÖÖ?Ö ¯Ö¸ü ¤ü¿ÖÖÔŸÖê µÖÖ †Ó×?úŸÖ ?ú¸üŸÖê Æïü ŸÖÖê
¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ?êú ×»ÖµÖê †µÖÖê?µÖ ‘ÖÖê×ÂÖŸÖ ?ú¸ü פüµÖê •ÖÖµÖë?Öê …
9. †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ÃÖ´ÖÖ¯ŸÖ ÆüÖê­Öê ¯Ö¸ü ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ‹¾ÖÓ OMR ˆ¢Ö¸ü-¯Ö¡Ö?ú
×­Ö¸üß?Ö?ú ´ÖÆüÖê¤üµÖ ?úÖê »ÖÖî™üÖ­ÖÖ †Ö¾Ö¿µÖ?ú Æîü †Öî¸ü ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ÃÖ´ÖÖÛ¯ŸÖ ?êú ²ÖÖ¤ü ˆÃÖê
†¯Ö­Öê ÃÖÖ£Ö ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ³Ö¾Ö­Ö ÃÖê ²ÖÖÆü¸ü ­Ö »Öê?ú¸ü •ÖÖµÖë …
10. ?êú¾Ö»Ö ­Öß»Öê/?úÖ»Öê ²ÖÖ»Ö ¯¾ÖÖ‡Õ™ü ¯Öê­Ö ?úÖ Æüß ‡ÃŸÖê´ÖÖ»Ö ?ú¸ëü …
11. ×?úÃÖß ³Öß ¯ÖÏ?úÖ¸ü ?úÖ ÃÖÓ?Ö?Ö?ú (?îú»Ö?ãú»Öê™ü¸ü) µÖÖ »ÖÖ?Ö ™êü²Ö»Ö †Öפü ?úÖ
¯ÖϵÖÖê?Ö ¾ÖÙ•ÖŸÖ Æîü …
12. ?Ö»ÖŸÖ ˆ¢Ö¸üÖë ?êú ×»Ö‹ ?úÖê‡Ô †Ó?ú ?úÖ™êü ­ÖÆüà •ÖÖ‹Ñ?Öê …
[Maximum Marks : 100
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PAPER-II
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(To be filled by the Candidate)
Signature and Name of Invigilator
OMR Sheet No. : ...............................................
Roll No.
(In words)
1. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
2. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
Roll No.________________________________
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1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of
this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions.
3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet
will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested
to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below :
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper
seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet
without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet.
(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions in
the booklet with the information printed on the cover
page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions missing
or duplicate or not in serial order or any other
discrepancy should be got replaced immediately by a
correct booklet from the invigilator within the period
of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question Booklet
will be replaced nor any extra time will be given.
(iii) After this verification is over, the OMR Sheet Number
should be entered on this Test Booklet.
4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C)
and (D). Y ou have to darken the oval as indicated below on the
correct response against each item.
Example :
where (C) is the correct response.
5. Y our responses to the items are to be indicated in the Answer
Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at
any place other than in the ovals in the Answer Sheet, it will
not be evaluated.
6. Read instructions given inside carefully.
7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.
8. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the test
booklet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries,
which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself
liable to disqualification.
9. Y ou have to return the test question booklet and OMR Answer
sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination
compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the
Examination Hall.
10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers.
Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50
Instructions for the Candidates ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖÙ£ÖµÖÖë ?êú ×»Ö‹ ×­Ö¤ìü¿Ö
A B C D
A B C D
D-30-10 1 P.T.O.
1. ¯ÖÆü»Öê ¯Öéšü ?êú ‰ú¯Ö¸ü ×­ÖµÖŸÖ Ã£ÖÖ ­Ö ¯Ö¸ü †¯Ö­ÖÖ ¸üÖê»Ö ­Ö´²Ö¸ü ×»Ö×?Ö‹ …
2. ‡ÃÖ ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯Ö¡Ö ´Öë ¯Ö“ÖÖÃÖ ²ÖÆãü×¾Ö?ú»¯ÖßµÖ ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö Æïü …
3. ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ¯ÖÏÖ¸ü´³Ö ÆüÖê­Öê ¯Ö¸ü, ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¤êü ¤üß •ÖÖµÖê?Öß … ¯ÖÆü»Öê ¯ÖÖÑ“Ö
×´Ö­Ö™ü †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?ÖÖê»Ö­Öê ŸÖ£ÖÖ ˆÃÖ?úß ×­Ö´­Ö×»Ö×?ÖŸÖ •ÖÖÑ“Ö ?êú
×»Ö‹ פüµÖê •ÖÖµÖë?Öê, וÖÃÖ?úß •ÖÖÑ“Ö †Ö¯Ö?úÖê †¾Ö¿µÖ ?ú¸ü­Öß Æîü :
(i) ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?ÖÖê»Ö­Öê ?êú ×»Ö‹ ˆÃÖ?êú ?ú¾Ö¸ü ¯Öê•Ö ¯Ö¸ü »Ö?Öß ?úÖ?Ö•Ö ?úß
ÃÖᯙ ?úÖê ±úÖ›Íü »Öë … ?Öã»Öß Æãü‡Ô µÖÖ ×²Ö­ÖÖ Ã™üß?ú¸ü-ÃÖᯙ ?úß ¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ
þÖß?úÖ¸ü ­Ö ?ú¸ëü …
(ii) ?ú¾Ö¸ü ¯Öéšü ¯Ö¸ü ”û¯Öê ×­Ö¤ìü¿ÖÖ­ÖãÃÖÖ¸ü ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?êú ¯Öéšü ŸÖ£ÖÖ ¯ÖÏ¿­ÖÖë
?úß ÃÖÓ?µÖÖ ?úÖê †“”ûß ŸÖ¸üÆü “Öî?ú ?ú¸ü »Öë ×?ú µÖê ¯Öæ¸êü Æïü … ¤üÖêÂÖ¯Öæ?ÖÔ
¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ×•Ö­Ö´Öë ¯Öéšü/¯ÖÏ¿­Ö ?ú´Ö ÆüÖë µÖÖ ¤ãü²ÖÖ¸üÖ †Ö ?ÖµÖê ÆüÖë µÖÖ ÃÖß׸üµÖ»Ö
´Öë ­Ö ÆüÖë †£ÖÖÔŸÖ ×?úÃÖß ³Öß ¯ÖÏ?úÖ¸ü ?úß ¡Öã×™ü¯Öæ?ÖÔ ¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ Ã¾Öß?úÖ¸ü ­Ö
?ú¸ëü ŸÖ£ÖÖ ˆÃÖß ÃÖ´ÖµÖ ˆÃÖê »ÖÖî™üÖ?ú¸ü ˆÃÖ?êú ãÖÖ­Ö ¯Ö¸ü ¤æüÃÖ¸üß ÃÖÆüß
¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ »Öê »Öë … ‡ÃÖ?êú ×»Ö‹ †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¯ÖÖÑ“Ö ×´Ö­Ö™ü פüµÖê •ÖÖµÖë?Öê …
ˆÃÖ?êú ²ÖÖ¤ü ­Ö ŸÖÖê †Ö¯Ö?úß ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ¾ÖÖ¯ÖÃÖ »Öß •ÖÖµÖê?Öß †Öî¸ü ­Ö
Æüß †Ö¯Ö?úÖê †×ŸÖ׸üŒŸÖ ÃÖ´ÖµÖ ×¤üµÖÖ •ÖÖµÖê?ÖÖ …
(iii) ‡ÃÖ •ÖÖÑ“Ö ?êú ²ÖÖ¤ü OMR ¯Ö¡Ö?ú ?úß ?Îú´Ö ÃÖÓ?µÖÖ ‡ÃÖ ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ¯Ö¸ü
†Ó×?úŸÖ ?ú¸ü ¤ëü …
4. ¯ÖÏŸµÖê?ú ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö ?êú ×»Ö‹ “ÖÖ¸ü ˆ¢Ö¸ü ×¾Ö?ú»¯Ö (A), (B), (C) ŸÖ£ÖÖ (D) פüµÖê ?ÖµÖê
Æïü … †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ÃÖÆüß ˆ¢Ö¸ü ?êú ¤üß‘ÖÔ¾Öé¢Ö ?úÖê ¯Öê­Ö ÃÖê ³Ö¸ü?ú¸ü ?úÖ»ÖÖ ?ú¸ü­ÖÖ Æîü •ÖîÃÖÖ
×?ú ­Öß“Öê פü?ÖÖµÖÖ ?ÖµÖÖ Æîü …
ˆ¤üÖÆü¸ü?Ö :
•Ö²Ö×?ú (C) ÃÖÆüß ˆ¢Ö¸ü Æîü …
5. ¯ÖÏ¿­ÖÖë ?êú ˆ¢Ö¸ü ?êú¾Ö»Ö ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö ¯Ö¡Ö I ?êú †­¤ü¸ü פüµÖê ?ÖµÖê ˆ¢Ö¸ü-¯Ö¡Ö?ú ¯Ö¸ü Æüß †Ó×?úŸÖ
?ú¸ü­Öê Æïü … µÖפü †Ö¯Ö ˆ¢Ö¸ü ¯Ö¡Ö?ú ¯Ö¸ü פüµÖê ?ÖµÖê ¤üß‘ÖÔ¾Öé¢Ö ?êú †»ÖÖ¾ÖÖ ×?úÃÖß †­µÖ
ãÖÖ­Ö ¯Ö¸ü ˆ¢Ö¸ü דÖÅ­ÖÖÓ×?úŸÖ ?ú¸ŸÖê Æïü, ŸÖÖê ˆÃÖ?úÖ ´Ö滵ÖÖÓ?ú­Ö ­ÖÆüà ÆüÖê?ÖÖ …
6. †­¤ü¸ü פüµÖê ?ÖµÖê ×­Ö¤ìü¿ÖÖë ?úÖê ¬µÖÖ­Ö¯Öæ¾ÖÔ?ú ¯ÖœÍëü …
7. ?ú““ÖÖ ?úÖ´Ö (Rough Work) ‡ÃÖ ¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ?êú †Û­ŸÖ´Ö ¯Öéšü ¯Ö¸ü ?ú¸ëü …
8. µÖפü †Ö¯Ö ˆ¢Ö¸ü-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ¯Ö¸ü †¯Ö­ÖÖ ­ÖÖ´Ö µÖÖ ‹êÃÖÖ ?úÖê‡Ô ³Öß ×­Ö¿ÖÖ­Ö ×•ÖÃÖÃÖê
†Ö¯Ö?úß ¯ÖÆü“ÖÖ­Ö ÆüÖê ÃÖ?êú, ×?úÃÖß ³Öß ³ÖÖ?Ö ¯Ö¸ü ¤ü¿ÖÖÔŸÖê µÖÖ †Ó×?úŸÖ ?ú¸üŸÖê Æïü ŸÖÖê
¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ?êú ×»ÖµÖê †µÖÖê?µÖ ‘ÖÖê×ÂÖŸÖ ?ú¸ü פüµÖê •ÖÖµÖë?Öê …
9. †Ö¯Ö?úÖê ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ÃÖ´ÖÖ¯ŸÖ ÆüÖê­Öê ¯Ö¸ü ¯ÖÏ¿­Ö-¯ÖãÛßÖ?úÖ ‹¾ÖÓ OMR ˆ¢Ö¸ü-¯Ö¡Ö?ú
×­Ö¸üß?Ö?ú ´ÖÆüÖê¤üµÖ ?úÖê »ÖÖî™üÖ­ÖÖ †Ö¾Ö¿µÖ?ú Æîü †Öî¸ü ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ÃÖ´ÖÖÛ¯ŸÖ ?êú ²ÖÖ¤ü ˆÃÖê
†¯Ö­Öê ÃÖÖ£Ö ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖ ³Ö¾Ö­Ö ÃÖê ²ÖÖÆü¸ü ­Ö »Öê?ú¸ü •ÖÖµÖë …
10. ?êú¾Ö»Ö ­Öß»Öê/?úÖ»Öê ²ÖÖ»Ö ¯¾ÖÖ‡Õ™ü ¯Öê­Ö ?úÖ Æüß ‡ÃŸÖê´ÖÖ»Ö ?ú¸ëü …
11. ×?úÃÖß ³Öß ¯ÖÏ?úÖ¸ü ?úÖ ÃÖÓ?Ö?Ö?ú (?îú»Ö?ãú»Öê™ü¸ü) µÖÖ »ÖÖ?Ö ™êü²Ö»Ö †Öפü ?úÖ
¯ÖϵÖÖê?Ö ¾ÖÙ•ÖŸÖ Æîü …
12. ?Ö»ÖŸÖ ˆ¢Ö¸üÖë ?êú ×»Ö‹ ?úÖê‡Ô †Ó?ú ?úÖ™êü ­ÖÆüà •ÖÖ‹Ñ?Öê …
[Maximum Marks : 100
Time : 1 
1
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4
 hours]
PAPER-II
ENGLISH
(To be filled by the Candidate)
Signature and Name of Invigilator
OMR Sheet No. : ...............................................
Roll No.
(In words)
1. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
2. (Signature) __________________________
(Name)  ____________________________
Roll No.________________________________
3 0
(In figures as per admission card)
D 1 0
Paper-II 2 D-30-10
ENGLISH
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of
the Immorality and Profaneness of
the English Stage attacked among
others.
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Thomas Rhymer
(C) William Congreve
(D) Henry Fielding
2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit
of the Great Exhibition, was
designed by
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Edward Moxon
(C) Joseph Paxton
(D) Richard Owen
3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy
is seen in the writings of
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward
(C) Tom Stoppard
(D) T.S. Eliot
4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver
discovered mountain-like beings ?
(A) The land of the Lilliputians
(B) The land of the
Brobdingnagians
(C) The land of the Laputans
(D) The land of the
Houyhnhnms
5. Patrick White’s Voss is a novel
about
(A) the sea
(B) the capital market
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system
6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus
Heaney writes in English, in voice
and subject matter, his poems are
(A) Welsh
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish
(D) Polish
7. To whom is Mary Shelley’s
famous work Frankenstein
dedicated ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin
(D) P.B. Shelley
8. Which among the following poems
by Philip Larkin records his
impressions while travelling to
London by train ?
(A) “Aubade”
(B) “Church Going”
(C) “The Whitsun Wedding”
(D) “An Arundel Tomb”
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1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of
this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions.
3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet
will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested
to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below :
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper
seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet
without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet.
(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions in
the booklet with the information printed on the cover
page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions missing
or duplicate or not in serial order or any other
discrepancy should be got replaced immediately by a
correct booklet from the invigilator within the period
of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question Booklet
will be replaced nor any extra time will be given.
(iii) After this verification is over, the OMR Sheet Number
should be entered on this Test Booklet.
4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C)
and (D). Y ou have to darken the oval as indicated below on the
correct response against each item.
Example :
where (C) is the correct response.
5. Y our responses to the items are to be indicated in the Answer
Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at
any place other than in the ovals in the Answer Sheet, it will
not be evaluated.
6. Read instructions given inside carefully.
7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.
8. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the test
booklet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries,
which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself
liable to disqualification.
9. Y ou have to return the test question booklet and OMR Answer
sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination
compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the
Examination Hall.
10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers.
Number of Pages in this Booklet : 8 Number of Questions in this Booklet : 50
Instructions for the Candidates ¯Ö¸üß?ÖÖÙ£ÖµÖÖë ?êú ×»Ö‹ ×­Ö¤ìü¿Ö
A B C D
A B C D
D-30-10 1 P.T.O.
1. ¯ÖÆü»Öê ¯Öéšü ?êú ‰ú¯Ö¸ü ×­ÖµÖŸÖ Ã£ÖÖ ­Ö ¯Ö¸ü †¯Ö­ÖÖ ¸üÖê»Ö ­Ö´²Ö¸ü ×»Ö×?Ö‹ …
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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of
the Immorality and Profaneness of
the English Stage attacked among
others.
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Thomas Rhymer
(C) William Congreve
(D) Henry Fielding
2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit
of the Great Exhibition, was
designed by
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Edward Moxon
(C) Joseph Paxton
(D) Richard Owen
3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy
is seen in the writings of
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward
(C) Tom Stoppard
(D) T.S. Eliot
4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver
discovered mountain-like beings ?
(A) The land of the Lilliputians
(B) The land of the
Brobdingnagians
(C) The land of the Laputans
(D) The land of the
Houyhnhnms
5. Patrick White’s Voss is a novel
about
(A) the sea
(B) the capital market
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system
6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus
Heaney writes in English, in voice
and subject matter, his poems are
(A) Welsh
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish
(D) Polish
7. To whom is Mary Shelley’s
famous work Frankenstein
dedicated ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin
(D) P.B. Shelley
8. Which among the following poems
by Philip Larkin records his
impressions while travelling to
London by train ?
(A) “Aubade”
(B) “Church Going”
(C) “The Whitsun Wedding”
(D) “An Arundel Tomb”
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9. The English satirist who used the
sharp edge of praise to attack his
victims was
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) John Donne
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
10. One of the most famous
movements of direct address to
the reader – “Reader, I married
him” – occurs in
(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
(B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane
Eyre
(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram
Shandy
(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
11. Langland’s Piers Plowman is a
satire on
(A) aristocracy
(B) chivalry
(C) peasantry
(D) clergy
12. Which of the following thinker-
concept pair is correctly matched ?
(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal
Criticism
(B) Christopher
Frye
– Mysticism
(C) Jacques
Derrida
– Deconstruction
(D) Terry
Eagleton
– Psychological
Criticism
13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in
Shakespeare’s
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) The Tempest
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear
14. The title, The New Criticism,
published in 1941, was written by
(A) Cleanth Brooks
(B) John Crowe Ransom
(C) Robert Penn Warren
(D) Allan Tate
15. Which of the following is not a
Revenge Tragedy ?
(A) The White Devil
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) The Spanish Tragedy
16. Who of the following playwrights
rejects the Aristotelian concept of
tragic play as imitation of reality ?
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Arthur Miller
(C) Bertolt Brecht
(D) John Galsworthy
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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of
the Immorality and Profaneness of
the English Stage attacked among
others.
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Thomas Rhymer
(C) William Congreve
(D) Henry Fielding
2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit
of the Great Exhibition, was
designed by
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Edward Moxon
(C) Joseph Paxton
(D) Richard Owen
3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy
is seen in the writings of
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward
(C) Tom Stoppard
(D) T.S. Eliot
4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver
discovered mountain-like beings ?
(A) The land of the Lilliputians
(B) The land of the
Brobdingnagians
(C) The land of the Laputans
(D) The land of the
Houyhnhnms
5. Patrick White’s Voss is a novel
about
(A) the sea
(B) the capital market
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system
6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus
Heaney writes in English, in voice
and subject matter, his poems are
(A) Welsh
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish
(D) Polish
7. To whom is Mary Shelley’s
famous work Frankenstein
dedicated ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin
(D) P.B. Shelley
8. Which among the following poems
by Philip Larkin records his
impressions while travelling to
London by train ?
(A) “Aubade”
(B) “Church Going”
(C) “The Whitsun Wedding”
(D) “An Arundel Tomb”
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9. The English satirist who used the
sharp edge of praise to attack his
victims was
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) John Donne
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
10. One of the most famous
movements of direct address to
the reader – “Reader, I married
him” – occurs in
(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
(B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane
Eyre
(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram
Shandy
(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
11. Langland’s Piers Plowman is a
satire on
(A) aristocracy
(B) chivalry
(C) peasantry
(D) clergy
12. Which of the following thinker-
concept pair is correctly matched ?
(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal
Criticism
(B) Christopher
Frye
– Mysticism
(C) Jacques
Derrida
– Deconstruction
(D) Terry
Eagleton
– Psychological
Criticism
13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in
Shakespeare’s
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) The Tempest
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear
14. The title, The New Criticism,
published in 1941, was written by
(A) Cleanth Brooks
(B) John Crowe Ransom
(C) Robert Penn Warren
(D) Allan Tate
15. Which of the following is not a
Revenge Tragedy ?
(A) The White Devil
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) The Spanish Tragedy
16. Who of the following playwrights
rejects the Aristotelian concept of
tragic play as imitation of reality ?
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Arthur Miller
(C) Bertolt Brecht
(D) John Galsworthy
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17. The label ‘Diasporic Writer’ can be
applied to
I. Meena Alexander
II. Arundhati Roy
III. Kiran Desai
IV. Shashi Deshpande
The correct combination for the
statement, according to the code, is
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) I, II and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
18. The letter ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter
stands for
I. Adultery
II. Able
III. Angel
IV. Appetite
The correct combination for the
statement, according to the code, is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) I, II and IV are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.
19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final
stressed syllable of two lines of
verse is called
(A) monorhyme
(B) feminine rhyme
(C) masculine rhyme
(D) eye rhyme
20. A fatwa was issued in Salman
Rushdie’s name following the
publication of :
(A) Midnight’s Children
(B) Shame
(C) Satanic Verses
(D) Grimus
21. “There is nothing outside the text”
is a key statement emanating from
(A) Feminism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Deconstruction
(D) Structuralism
22. The Augustan Age is called so
because
(A) King Augustus ruled over
England during this period
(B) The English writers imitated
the Roman writers during
this period
(C) The English King was born
in the month of August
(D) This was an age of
sensibility
23. One of the important texts of
Angry Young Man Movement is
(A) Time’s Arrow by Martin
Amis
(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man by James Joyce
(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley
Amis
(D) The French Lieutenant’s
Woman by John Fowles
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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2)
marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of
the Immorality and Profaneness of
the English Stage attacked among
others.
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Thomas Rhymer
(C) William Congreve
(D) Henry Fielding
2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit
of the Great Exhibition, was
designed by
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Edward Moxon
(C) Joseph Paxton
(D) Richard Owen
3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy
is seen in the writings of
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward
(C) Tom Stoppard
(D) T.S. Eliot
4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver
discovered mountain-like beings ?
(A) The land of the Lilliputians
(B) The land of the
Brobdingnagians
(C) The land of the Laputans
(D) The land of the
Houyhnhnms
5. Patrick White’s Voss is a novel
about
(A) the sea
(B) the capital market
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system
6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus
Heaney writes in English, in voice
and subject matter, his poems are
(A) Welsh
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish
(D) Polish
7. To whom is Mary Shelley’s
famous work Frankenstein
dedicated ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin
(D) P.B. Shelley
8. Which among the following poems
by Philip Larkin records his
impressions while travelling to
London by train ?
(A) “Aubade”
(B) “Church Going”
(C) “The Whitsun Wedding”
(D) “An Arundel Tomb”
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9. The English satirist who used the
sharp edge of praise to attack his
victims was
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) John Donne
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
10. One of the most famous
movements of direct address to
the reader – “Reader, I married
him” – occurs in
(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
(B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane
Eyre
(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram
Shandy
(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
11. Langland’s Piers Plowman is a
satire on
(A) aristocracy
(B) chivalry
(C) peasantry
(D) clergy
12. Which of the following thinker-
concept pair is correctly matched ?
(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal
Criticism
(B) Christopher
Frye
– Mysticism
(C) Jacques
Derrida
– Deconstruction
(D) Terry
Eagleton
– Psychological
Criticism
13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in
Shakespeare’s
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) The Tempest
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear
14. The title, The New Criticism,
published in 1941, was written by
(A) Cleanth Brooks
(B) John Crowe Ransom
(C) Robert Penn Warren
(D) Allan Tate
15. Which of the following is not a
Revenge Tragedy ?
(A) The White Devil
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) The Spanish Tragedy
16. Who of the following playwrights
rejects the Aristotelian concept of
tragic play as imitation of reality ?
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Arthur Miller
(C) Bertolt Brecht
(D) John Galsworthy
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17. The label ‘Diasporic Writer’ can be
applied to
I. Meena Alexander
II. Arundhati Roy
III. Kiran Desai
IV. Shashi Deshpande
The correct combination for the
statement, according to the code, is
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) I, II and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
18. The letter ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter
stands for
I. Adultery
II. Able
III. Angel
IV. Appetite
The correct combination for the
statement, according to the code, is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) I, II and IV are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.
19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final
stressed syllable of two lines of
verse is called
(A) monorhyme
(B) feminine rhyme
(C) masculine rhyme
(D) eye rhyme
20. A fatwa was issued in Salman
Rushdie’s name following the
publication of :
(A) Midnight’s Children
(B) Shame
(C) Satanic Verses
(D) Grimus
21. “There is nothing outside the text”
is a key statement emanating from
(A) Feminism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Deconstruction
(D) Structuralism
22. The Augustan Age is called so
because
(A) King Augustus ruled over
England during this period
(B) The English writers imitated
the Roman writers during
this period
(C) The English King was born
in the month of August
(D) This was an age of
sensibility
23. One of the important texts of
Angry Young Man Movement is
(A) Time’s Arrow by Martin
Amis
(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man by James Joyce
(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley
Amis
(D) The French Lieutenant’s
Woman by John Fowles
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24. Whom does Alexander Pope
satirise in the portrait of Sporus ?
(A) Lady Wortley Montague
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Lord Shaftsbury
(D) Lord Harvey
25. The hero of Marlowe’s
Tamburlaine was born as a
(A) carpenter
(B) goldsmith
(C) shepherd
(D) fisherman
26. In a letter to his brother George in
September 1819, John Keats had
this to say about a fellow romantic
poet : “He describes what he sees –
I describe what I imagine – Mine is
the hardest task.” The poet under
reference is
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Byron
(D) Southey
27. A sequence of repeated
consonantal sounds in a stretch of
language is
(A) alliteration
(B) acrostic
(C) assent
(D) syllable
28. Reformation was predominantly a
movement in
(A) politics
(B) literature
(C) religion
(D) education
29. The motto “only connect” is taken
from
(A) Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo
(B) Rudyard Kipling’s Kim
(C) H.G. Wells’ The History of
Mr. Polly
(D) E.M. Forster’s Howards
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30. English Iambic Pentameter was
brought to its first maturity in
(A) sonnet
(B) dramatic verse
(C) lyric
(D) elegy
31. Who among the following was not
a member of the Bloomsbury
Group ?
(A) Lytton Strachey
(B) Clive Bell
(C) E.M. Forster
(D) Winston Churchill
32. The concept of human mind as
tabula rasa or blank tablet was
propounded by
(A) Bishop Berkley
(B) David Hume
(C) Francis Bacon
(D) John Locke
33. The terms ‘resonance’ and
‘wonder’ are associated with
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Terence Hawkes
(C) Terry Eagleton
(D) Ronald Barthes