GATE 2024 English (XH-C2) Question Paper PDF is available here. IISc Banglore conducted GATE 2024 English (XH-C2) exam on February 4 in the Forenoon Session from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Students have to answer 65 questions in GATE 2024 English (XH-C2) Question Paper carrying a total weightage of 100 marks. 10 questions are from the General Aptitude section and 55 questions are from Core Discipline.
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GATE 2024 English (XH-C2) Question Paper Solution
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| 1 | “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a/an ________. (A) ode (B) dramatic monologue (C) haiku (D) Villanelle | (B) dramatic monologue | The poem is a dramatic monologue that presents the thoughts and feelings of J. Alfred Prufrock. |
| 2 | The Madwoman in the Attic, the title of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s iconic feminist examination of Victorian literature, alludes to which classic novel? (A) Jane Eyre (B) Middlemarch (C) Diary of a Madman (D) Wuthering Heights | (A) Jane Eyre | The title refers to Bertha Mason, the "madwoman" in the attic of Thornfield Hall. |
| 3 | Agatha Christie broke a fundamental rule of detective fiction in _______. (A) Murder on the Orient Express (B) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (C) Death on the Nile (D) Three Act Tragedy | (B) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The narrator and detective is revealed as the murderer, defying traditional expectations. |
| 4 | Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Hetty Sorel, Stephen Guest are all characters created by _______. (A) George Eliot (B) Charlotte Bronte (C) Jane Austen (D) Walter Scott | (A) George Eliot | These characters appear in Eliot's novel "Middlemarch." |
| 5 | Charulata is an adaptation of which work by Rabindranath Tagore? (A) Gora (B) The Broken Nest (C) Four Chapters (D) The Home and the World | (B) The Broken Nest | "Charulata" is adapted from Tagore's "The Broken Nest." |
| 6 | Which of the following is NOT part of the Theban trilogy? (A) Oedipus Rex (B) Oedipus at Colonus (C) Medea (D) Antigone | (C) Medea | "Medea" is by Euripides, while the others are part of Sophocles' trilogy. |
| 7 | The literary term ‘apostrophe’ denotes: (A) A comparison of an abstract idea with its opposite. (B) An address to a person, or a personified idea or power. (C) A break within an iambic pentameter. (D) The possession of a character by a spirit. | (B) An address to a person, or a personified idea or power. | Apostrophe involves addressing an absent or personified entity. |
| 8 | In the line, “What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?” “he” refers to _______. (A) Virgil, the author of the Aeneid (B) An actor performing a scene from the Trojan War in Hamlet (C) Helen’s husband Priam who left her for Hecuba (D) A fairy king who abandoned his daughter Hecuba at birth | (B) An actor performing a scene from the Trojan War in Hamlet | Hamlet reflects on the emotional authenticity of an actor's performance. |
| 9 | Which of these writers is/are associated with the Progressive Writers Association? (A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (B) Ismat Chughtai (C) Premchand (D) Rajinder Singh Bedi | (B) Ismat Chughtai, (C) Premchand, (D) Rajinder Singh Bedi | These writers aimed for social reform through their literature. |
| 10 | Which of the following novels is/are written by African-American women? (A) The Color Purple (B) The Ink Black Heart (C) My Name is Red (D) The Bluest Eye | (A) The Color Purple, (D) The Bluest Eye | Authored by Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, respectively. |
| 11 | Which of the following options is NOT the title of a play? (A) The Spanish Tragedy (B) A Doll’s House (C) Mother Courage and her Children (D) Scenes from Clerical Life | (D) Scenes from Clerical Life | It is a collection of short stories by George Eliot. |
| 12 | Match each fictional character with the author who created him: a) Uriah Heep b) Stephen Dedalus c) Bazarov d) Raskolnikov | (B) a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii | Matches: a) Uriah Heep - Charles Dickens, b) Stephen Dedalus - James Joyce, c) Bazarov - Ivan Turgenev, d) Raskolnikov - Fyodor Dostoevsky. |
| 13 | What do the following works have in common? Andha Yug, The Second Turn, Parva, Sarpa Satra (A) All of them are plays. (B) All are based on the Mahabharata. (C) All have women as primary protagonists. (D) All are 19th century works. | (B) All are based on the Mahabharata. | Each work draws inspiration from the Mahabharata. |
| 14 | Match the texts with the language they were originally written in: a) Waiting for a Visa b) The Prisons we Broke c) The Revenue Stamp: An Autobiography d) Joothan: A Dalit’s Life | (C) a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i | Matches: a) Waiting for a Visa - English, b) The Prisons we Broke - Marathi, c) The Revenue Stamp - Punjabi, d) Joothan - Hindi. |
| 15 | Match the excerpts with the texts they have been taken from: a) “A son who will never be older than his motherland…” b) “That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made…” c) “She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Niwas…” d) “Two or three years after the 1947 Partition…” | (A) a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv | Matches: a) "Midnight’s Children," b) "The God of Small Things," c) "A Suitable Boy," d) "Toba Tek Singh." |
| 16 | A widely used narrative technique, it allows narrators to temporarily inhabit the consciousness of any of their characters. It is called _______. (A) Localized Speech (B) Free Indirect Speech (C) Mimicked Speech (D) Empathetic Speech | (B) Free Indirect Speech | It allows a blend of narrator and character perspectives. |
| 17 | Which of the following statements is true of Magic Realism? (A) It has its origins in the speech of the Oracle of Delphi. (B) It was created by J R R Tolkien. (C) It reveals the extraordinary in the heart of the ordinary. (D) It is a subset of Socialist Realism. | (C) It reveals the extraordinary in the heart of the ordinary. | Magic realism combines magical elements with realistic settings. |
| 18 | “[...] in so far as the academic discourse of history...” (A) People in postcolonial societies are condemned to endlessly repeat their own histories. (B) The histories of India, China, and Kenya are not fundamentally different from one another. (C) Within the protocols of history writing, it is impossible to write the history of postcolonial societies without reference to Europe. (D) Instead of Europe, India should be the sovereign subject of all histories. | (C) Within the protocols of history writing, it is impossible to write the history of postcolonial societies without reference to Europe. | The passage highlights European dominance in historical discourse. |
| 19 | Suppose XYZ Corp. is fully financed by equity; it is earning Rs. 2.50 per share; its capitalization rate is 20%. There are 10,000 shares outstanding, and the replacement cost of the firm’s real assets is Rs. 1,25,000. XYZ Corp.’s value of Tobin’s q is _________. | Tobin’s q = 1 | Tobin's q is calculated as the ratio of the market value of the firm to the replacement cost of its real assets. Here, Tobin's q equals 1, indicating that the market value of the firm is equal to the replacement cost of its real assets. |
| 20 | If ‘KARAMCHAND’ is coded as ‘ICPCKEFCLF’, what should be the code of ‘CREATION’? (A) ATCCRKMP (B) ETGCVKQP (C) APCCRJMP (D) ETCGKRPM | (A) ATCCRKMP | Solution: The coding pattern alternates: odd-position letters shift 2 backward, and even-position letters shift 2 forward. 'CREATION' becomes 'ATCCRKMP'. |
| 21 | In a code, ‘they play cricket together’ is ‘mv kb lb iv’, ‘they score maximum points’ is ‘gb lb mb kv’, and so on. What is the code for ‘earned maximum points’? (A) gv gb kv (B) mv kb mb (C) lb iv ob (D) ob mb iv | (A) gv gb kv | Solution: By matching common words and codes across sentences, 'earned' = gv, 'maximum' = gb, and 'points' = kv. Hence, the code for 'earned maximum points' is 'gv gb kv'. |
| 22 | Which statement weakens the argument that brain size does not directly correlate with intelligence? (A) Recent studies refute the hypothesis... (B) Neanderthal people’s extinction... (C) Homo Sapiens destruction... (D) Neanderthal people, with smaller brains... | (A) Recent studies refute... | Solution: Option (A) weakens the argument by challenging the claim that region-specific brain development correlates with progress, directly refuting the presented hypothesis. |
| 23 | Which action is appropriate for students not attending classes post-pandemic? (A) Disciplinary action... (B) Counseling sessions... (C) Surveys... (D) Course content change... | (B) & (C) Counseling and Surveys | Solution: Counseling sessions help address students' personal challenges, while surveys gather data to identify the reasons for absenteeism. Disciplinary action or immediate course changes might not solve the underlying issues. |
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