GATE 2021 XH2 – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2021 XH2 with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – Consider: (i) After his surgery, Raja hardly could walk. (ii) After his surgery, Raja could barely walk. (iii) After his surgery, Raja barely could…
- Question 2 – Ms X exits through the front door of a building. With the building behind her, her shadow from the morning sun falls to her right. Which direction…
- Question 3 – O is the centre of the circle and M and N lie on it. Right triangle MON has area50 cm². Find the circle’s area in cm².
- Question 4 – Here ⊕ means subtraction, ⊗ division, Δ addition and ∇ multiplication. Evaluate Δ2 ⊕3 Δ((4⊗2)∇4).
- Question 5 – “The increased consumption of leafy vegetables in recent months clearly indicates that people in the state have begun leading a healthy lifestyle.”…
- Question 6 – Oxpeckers warn rhinos of approaching poachers and feed on parasitic ticks found on rhinos. What are the primary benefits to oxpeckers and rhinos,…
- Question 7 – The two-piece jigsaw must form a rectangle. The given piece may be matched by moving, rotating or flipping a candidate. Select the missing piece.
- Question 8 – Farm P has65 hens,91 ducks and169 goats. Farm Q has416 animals in the ratio hens:ducks:goats=5:14:13. All Q’s animals move to P. What is P’s new…
- Question 9 – There are10,000 executives. The pie chart gives company shares. Ratios of executives with a management degree to those without one are C1 3:2, C2 1:4,…
- Question 10 – Five people P,Q,R,S,T sit in a row. Exactly one person separates Q and R, and S cannot sit adjacent to Q. How many distinct arrangements satisfy both…
- Question 11 – A medical-journal article argues that daily curcumin consumption lowers COVID-19 risk: participants consuming at least a teaspoon of extract daily…
- Question 12 – Froot Inc advertised CocoLoco online. A subsequent survey found higher sales than competing TenderJoos. The agency concluded that internet advertising…
- Question 13 – An online store’s promotion requires a minimum spend of₹500. Buying2 kg of fresh fruit earns a hand mixer; buying2 kg of fresh vegetables earns a…
- Question 14 – Detective fiction often pairs a brilliant investigator with an incompetent detective. They pursue different accounts: the latter is misled by the…
- Question 15 – Reorder the middle parts between P1 and P6. P1: Studies of several Sahitya Akademi award winners show that L: or encounter professional M: and…
- Question 16 – Gerrymandering redraws constituencies to favour a party in a system electing one winner per constituency. Districts1–6 favour P and7–9 favour Q.…
- Question 17 – X-rays of a possible Michelangelo self-portrait reveal an earlier painting of a woman’s face. Either Michelangelo or someone else painted over that…
- Question 18 – Complete: “This season tourists visited Ladakh than last season; however, to be the biggest tourist destination in India. The tourism department…
- Question 19 – Arrange these sentences coherently. (1) Some languages have only one living native speaker; that person’s death will leave nobody able to speak or…
- Question 20 – Arrange the middle parts between the given beginning and ending. P1: For a little while L: it was a common belief M: right after the treaty of…
- Question 21 – Read this account adapted from García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera. After seeing his beloved, Florentino Ariza loses his appetite and voice…
- Question 22 – In Politics and the English Language, Orwell argues that language decline ultimately has political and economic causes rather than merely individual…
- Question 23 – Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste distinguishes division of labour from caste’s ranked, rigid division of labourers. Caste assigns work by birth…
- Question 24 – In the Monty Hall game, one of three doors hides a car and two hide goats. After a contestant chooses, an informed host always opens another door…
- Question 25 – A Mint opinion piece argues that, despite the recent success of carmakers P and Q, protected Indian vehicle production remains inefficient,…
- Question 26 – Which text collects stories told by a group of pilgrims to one another?
- Question 27 – Which work is NOT an autobiography?
- Question 28 – Writers Workshop and Blaft are
- Question 29 – An eighteenth-century satirical tract imagines a well-nursed one-year-old child as “a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food”. Identify the…
- Question 30 – Whose poem does Cleanth Brooks close-read in the discussion associated here with “the well-wrought urn”?
- Question 31 – What do Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of1084, Shobha Shakti’s Gorilla and Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun have in common?
- Question 32 – Henry James’s essay The Art of Fiction was preceded by his book-length study of which author?
- Question 33 – Which statement is NOT true of Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
- Question 34 – An early Indian English novel introduces H.Hatterr, who describes himself as biologically “fifty-five of the species”. Who wrote it?
- Question 35 – In Areopagitica, John Milton argues
- Question 36 – Which was the first institution in the world to teach English literature?
- Question 37 – Which text propounds the aesthetic theory of rasa?
- Question 38 – Which novels are predominantly set in Bombay? Select all that apply.
- Question 39 – Which works critically rewrite canonical English novels?
- Question 40 – Which novelist combines feminist concerns with magical realism? Select all that apply.
- Question 41 – In which Shakespeare plays do important female characters disguise themselves as men?
- Question 42 – Which clusters contain English words drawn from languages of the Indian subcontinent?
- Question 43 – Which statements about Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre are true?
- Question 44 – Which are examples of noir popular as both fiction and film?
- Question 45 – Which works use a story-within-a-story structure with multiple narrators?
- Question 46 – Match plays(i) Hayavadana,(ii) Harvest,(iii) Ghashiram Kotwal,(iv) Evam Indrajit with styles(a) political satire,(b) modernist reworking of folk,(c)…
- Question 47 – Identify the device common to: (i) the oppressive Ministry of Love in Orwell’s1984; (ii) a horror reader knowing a killer is in a closet when the…
- Question 48 – An “implied reader” is a
- Question 49 – In The Death of the Author, Barthes describes a text as multiple writings from different cultures interacting through dialogue, parody and…
- Question 50 – Which text provides the strongest support among these for a mimetic theory of art?
- Question 51 – O.V.Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak is described through its remote village setting in the mid-twentieth century and an ecosystem of living and…
- Question 52 – Which event did NOT occur in1919? The source describes this as the year the First World War ended.
- Question 53 – Assertion P: Dalit narratives are often read one-dimensionally as objects of pity at caste humiliation, heroic protests against discrimination or…
- Question 54 – Some Paulo Coelho novels appeared in several languages simultaneously with, or immediately after, their Portuguese editions. This is NOT evidence for…
- Question 55 – Match authors(i) Madhavikutty,(ii) U.R.Ananthamurthy,(iii) Indira Goswami,(iv) Namdeo Dhasal to translators(a) A.K.Ramanujan,(b) Dilip Chitre,(c)…
- Question 56 – Which statements describe Deleuze and Guattari’s “minor literature”?
- Question 57 – Consider these excerpts. Quote P: “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, / Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven,…
- Question 58 – Prolepsis represents or anticipates a future act from a narrative’s present. Which passages contain it?
- Question 59 – Which propositions fit Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak?
- Question 60 – Which situations are examples of metafiction?
- Question 61 – Compared with traditional historicism, New Historicism does which of the following?
- Question 62 – A passage says the feminist insistence that “the personal is political” has influenced other genres. Feminist academics argue that subjectivity must…
- Question 63 – In Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation,a white landlady asks how dark a prospective tenant is. He responds with a spectrum of colour descriptions: West…
- Question 64 – Colonialism appears throughout nineteenth-century British fiction in objects,events,animals,places,fears and desires. Which features of Sherlock…
- Question 65 – Read Theodore Roethke’s My Papa’s Waltz. The whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy; / But I hung on like death: / Such waltzing was…