GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2022 XH2 (English) with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – Inhaling the smoke from a burning could you quickly.
- Question 2 – A sphere of radius r cm is packed in a box of cubical shape. What should be the minimum volume (in cm3) of the box that can enclose the sphere?
- Question 3 – Pipes P and Q can fill a storage tank in full with water in 10 and 6 minutes, respectively. Pipe R draws the water out from the storage tank at a rate…
- Question 4 – Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting around a circular table facing the center not necessarily in the same order. Consider the following…
- Question 5 – A building has several rooms and doors as shown in the top view of the building given below. The doors are closed initially. What is the minimum…
- Question 6 – Rice, a versatile and inexpensive source of carbohydrate, is a critical component of diet worldwide. Climate change, causing extreme weather, poses a…
- Question 7 – A game consists of spinning an arrow around a stationary disk as shown below. When the arrow comes to rest, there are eight equally likely outcomes.…
- Question 8 – Consider the following inequalities. (i) 3p - q < 4 (ii) 3q - p < 12 Which one of the following expressions below satisfies the above two…
- Question 9 – Given below are three statements and four conclusions drawn based on the statements. Statement 1: Some engineers are writers. Statement 2: No writer…
- Question 10 – Which one of the following sets of pieces can be assembled to form a square with a single round hole near the center? Pieces cannot overlap.
- Question 11 – A relationship is expressed as Iodine : Goitre. The pair(s) of words showing SIMILAR relationship is/are
- Question 12 – Three individuals are named P, Q, and R. Together they have a total of fifteen children of which nine are boys. P has three girls and Q has same…
- Question 13 – A sentence has been given below. The train will leave at 8:30 PM, we **have been** ready by 7:30 PM, so that we can reach the station on time. To make…
- Question 14 – Complete the sentence correctly using the options given below. Hastings (p) developed as a holiday resort after (q) .
- Question 15 – The Arecibo telescope does not resemble what most of us think of when we hear the word telescope. Its reflective surface covers an area of 20 acres,…
- Question 16 – Tailgating another vehicle is unsafe and illegal. Many rear-end collisions are caused by drivers following too close to the vehicle in front of them.…
- Question 17 – There are three separate, but equal-sized boxes. Inside each box, there are two separate small boxes. Inside each of the small boxes, there are four…
- Question 18 – In a specific language, xer dan means “big horse”, liro cas means “red tomato” and dum cas dan means “big red barn”. The equivalent word for barn in…
- Question 19 – Park street is parallel to Rock street. Garden street is perpendicular (90°) to Lake street. Lake street is parallel to Rock street. For the situation…
- Question 20 – Six examinations are required to be conducted in a week starting from Sunday to Saturday. Hindi is not scheduled on the first day and English is not…
- Question 21 – A passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four sentences…
- Question 22 – For a painting to succeed, it is essential that the painter and his public agree about what is significant. The subject of the painting may have a…
- Question 23 – Vinod has a pre-determined route. Each morning he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his neighborhood. It takes Vinod 50 minutes to deliver all…
- Question 24 – Cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis cause huge number of deaths. Poor quality drinking water has always been the world’s greatest single…
- Question 25 – Shark’s teeth have evolved to correspond to the diet of each particular species of shark. Consequently, the teeth of the great white shark bear little…
- Question 26 – A particular school management wants to contact all parents, all businessmen and all engineers. The following statistics are available with the…
- Question 27 – “He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” Who has given the…
- Question 28 – “History is not made only in statecraft; its lasting results are produced in the ranks of learned men.” Name the play from which the above excerpt has…
- Question 29 – Who amongst the following popularised the term ‘objective correlative’, which is often used in formalist criticism?
- Question 30 – Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s comedies to his tragedies?
- Question 31 – Who among the following has been credited with laying the foundation of comparative literature by Russian Formalists?
- Question 32 – Lyrical Ballads, considered to be the manifesto of Romantic Poetry, was first published in the year .
- Question 33 – Identify the work from which the following excerpt has been taken: “In a universe that is suddenly deprived of illusions and of light, man feels a…
- Question 34 – What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature?
- Question 35 – Identify the novel which opens with the following lines: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the…
- Question 36 – Which of the following terms does not form a part of seven types of ambiguities propounded by William Empson?
- Question 37 – Which of the following poem(s) has/have been influenced by Hindu philosophy?
- Question 38 – Which of the following human behaviour(s) is/are important to a Freudian psychoanalytical study of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
- Question 39 – Which of the following novel-author combination(s) is/are correct?
- Question 40 – Which of the following statements is/are correct about Phenomenology?
- Question 41 – Chitra Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices is .
- Question 42 – Which of the following is/are correct about postmodernist critics?
- Question 43 – The literary theory of Deconstruction argues that .
- Question 44 – In the context of the Reader-Response Theory, Louise M Rosenblatt in her essay “The Poem as Event”, considers that the reader should .
- Question 45 – Roland Barthes in his famous essay, “The Death of the Author” .
- Question 46 – What is common among the following novels? Cormac McCarthy’s The Road George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
- Question 47 – Match the following authors with their pseudonyms: Author Pseudonym --- --- i. George Eliot a. Victoria Lucas ii. Sylvia Plath b. Currer Bell iii. H.…
- Question 48 – “This literary mode parallels the flouting of authority and inversion of social hierarchies that, in many cultures, are permitted in a season of …. It…
- Question 49 – “Postcolonial perspectives emerge from the colonial testimony of Third World countries and the discourses of ‘minorities’ within the geopolitical…
- Question 50 – Match the following excerpts with their authors: i. Rapt, twirling in thy hand a withered spray, And waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. ii.…
- Question 51 – Which of the following statements is the most appropriate in the context of Francoise d’ Eaubonne’s concept of Eco-feminism?
- Question 52 – Which of the following books is considered as one of the sources behind T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land?
- Question 53 – “The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming…
- Question 54 – ‘Anagnorisis’, as used by Aristotle in his theory of Tragedy, stands for .
- Question 55 – Which of the following thinkers does not belong to the school of Existentialism?
- Question 56 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are closely associated with the term Fetishism?
- Question 57 – Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me? Ah, you will understand; When I…
- Question 58 – Which of the given examples of rhetorical/figurative devices is/are correctly paired?
- Question 59 – As per the distinctions made by Toril Moi, regarding the terms ‘feminist’, ‘female’ and ‘feminine’, which of the following is/are correct?
- Question 60 – Which of the following author(s) has/have won the Booker Prize twice?
- Question 61 – “Nothing feels normal to Ashima, it’s not so much the pain which she will survive. Its consequence: motherhood in a foreign land … unmonitored by…
- Question 62 – Jean Baudrillard, a post-modern thinker, has suggested that a sign refers to other signs. He has given four stages/phases to support his proposition.…
- Question 63 – Which of the following apply/applies to the term ‘parapraxis’?
- Question 64 – The epilogue to William Congreve’s The Way of the World, given below, signals some warning(s). What is/are it/they? “Other there are whose malice we’d…
- Question 65 – Read the following lines and mark your correct observation(s): Take my shirt off and go in there to do the puja No thanks. Not me. But you go right…