GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2023 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 – Rafi told Mary, “I am thinking of watching a film this weekend.” The following reports the above statement in indirect speech: Rafi told Mary that he…
- Question 2 – Permit : : : Enforce : Relax (By word meaning)
- Question 3 – Given a fair six-faced dice where the faces are labelled ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, and ‘6’, what is the probability of getting a ‘1’ on the first roll…
- Question 4 – A recent survey shows that 65% of tobacco users were advised to stop consuming tobacco. The survey also shows that 3 out of 10 tobacco users attempted…
- Question 5 – How many triangles are present in the given figure?
- Question 6 – Students of all the departments of a college who have successfully completed the registration process are eligible to vote in the upcoming college…
- Question 7 – Which one of the following options represents the given graph?
- Question 8 – Which one of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it? We tend to think of cancer as a ‘modern’ illness because its metaphors…
- Question 9 – The digit in the unit’s place of the product 71000 3999 is .
- Question 10 – A square with sides of length 6 cm is given. The boundary of the shaded region is defined by two semi-circles whose diameters are the sides of the…
- Question 11 – Which word below best describes the idea of being both Spineless and Cowardly?
- Question 12 – Choose the right preposition to fill up the blank: The whole family got together Diwali
- Question 13 – Select the correct option to fill in all the blanks to complete the passage: The (i) factor amid this turbulence has been the (ii) of high-octane,…
- Question 14 – The following passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four…
- Question 15 – The population of a country increased by 5% from 2020 to 2021. Then, the population decreased by 5% from 2021 to 2022. By what percentage did the…
- Question 16 – The words Thin: Slim: Slender are related in some way. Identify the correct option(s) that reflect(s) the same relationship:
- Question 17 – A pandemic like situation hit the country last year, resulting in loss of human life and economic depression. To improve the condition of its…
- Question 18 – Six students, Arif, Balwinder, Chintu, David, Emon and Fulmoni appeared in the GATE-XH exam in 2022. Balwinder scores less than Chintu in XH-B1, but…
- Question 19 – Select the correct relation between E and F. E = x1+x and F = -x1-x, x > 1
- Question 20 – A code language is formulated thus: Vowels in the original word are replaced by the next vowel from the list of vowels, A-E-I-O-U (For example, E is…
- Question 21 – The stranger is by nature no "owner of soil" -- soil not only in the physical, but also in the figurative sense of a life-substance, which is fixed,…
- Question 22 – L is the only son of A and S. S has one sibling, B, who is married to L’s aunt, K. B is the only son of D. How are L and D related? Select the…
- Question 23 – Five segments of a sentence are given below. The first and fifth segments are at their correct positions, while the middle three segments (represented…
- Question 24 – “I told you the truth,” I say yet again, “Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates,…
- Question 25 – A firm needs both skilled labour and unskilled labour for the production of cloth. The wage of skilled labour is Rs. 40,000 per month, and that of…
- Question 26 – Select the odd word and write the option number as answer: (1) Lek (2) Zloty (3) Diner (4) Drachma (5) Real
- Question 27 – Who published the novel The Bell Jar under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas?
- Question 28 – In which collection did Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” first appear?
- Question 29 – Who wrote the introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali?
- Question 30 – Identify the title of the poem in which the following lines appear: “He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no…
- Question 31 – Identify the point of view used in the following passage: “You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning.…
- Question 32 – Which of the following is a novel by Charles Dickens?
- Question 33 – Which linguistic process can be seen in the formation of the following words? i. smog, ii. brunch, iii. motel iv. telecast
- Question 34 – Which writer is credited with the ‘chutneyfication’ of Indian English?
- Question 35 – Whom would you associate the term ‘simulacra’ with?
- Question 36 – In Plato’s idea of the Republic there is no place for the .
- Question 37 – What was Aristotle’s definition of hubris?
- Question 38 – Stephen Dedalus is a recurring character in the works of .
- Question 39 – Which of the following novels opens with the sentence, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must…
- Question 40 – Which of the following novels by Chinua Achebe derives its title from W. B. Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming”?
- Question 41 – Identify the novels that deal with the trauma of Partition:
- Question 42 – Which of the following writers are associated with the Theatre of the Absurd?
- Question 43 – Identify the writers who are referred to as ‘metaphysical poets’:
- Question 44 – What are the sources of Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana?
- Question 45 – Which of the following terms are used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his theory of imagination?
- Question 46 – Which of the following is the forerunner of the autobiography?
- Question 47 – Which of the following poems did Robert Browning intend to write as a play?
- Question 48 – The ‘Age of Reason’ in English literary history is popularly known as:
- Question 49 – Who first translated Jacques Derrida’s work into English?
- Question 50 – Identify the ‘Lake Poets’:
- Question 51 – Choose from the following options the type of drama that is intended by the author to be read rather than to be performed:
- Question 52 – Identify the commonality shared by the authors of Mansfield Park and Middle March:
- Question 53 – Who said, “Poetry makes nothing happen”?
- Question 54 – Which literary device does the following line employ? “A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend.”
- Question 55 – Match the following excerpts with their authors: (P) “He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat…
- Question 56 – The 1667 edition of Paradise Lost had 10 books. How many more were added to the 1674 edition?
- Question 57 – Read the following poem and identify the appropriate options: And search for certain thin – stemmed, bubble-eyed water bugs. See them perch on dry…
- Question 58 – Which of the following employ ‘Interior Monologue’?
- Question 59 – Which of the following works may be described as novels in verse?
- Question 60 – Which of the following critics belong to the deconstructionist school?
- Question 61 – Cleanth Brooks’s definition of ‘paradox’ in poetry foregrounds the following qualities:
- Question 62 – Two examples of magic realist fiction include:
- Question 63 – Ferdinand de Saussure differentiates language in terms of:
- Question 64 – Which of the following are considered to be typical postmodern narratives?
- Question 65 – What does a green reading of a text aim at?