GATE 2024 XH2 (English) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2024 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 – If ‘→’ denotes increasing order of intensity, then the meaning of the words [simmer → seethe → smolder] is analogous to [break → raze → ]. Which one…
- Question 2 – In a locality, the houses are numbered in the following way: The house-numbers on one side of a road are consecutive odd integers starting from 301,…
- Question 3 – For positive integers p and q, with pq 1, (pq)p/q = p(pq - 1). Then,
- Question 4 – Which one of the given options is a possible value of x in the following sequence? 3, 7, 15, x, 63, 127, 255
- Question 5 – On a given day, how many times will the second-hand and the minute-hand of a clock cross each other during the clock time 12:05:00 hours to 12:55:00…
- Question 6 – In the given text, the blanks are numbered (i)−(iv). Select the best match for all the blanks. From the ancient Athenian arena to the modern Olympic…
- Question 7 – Three distinct sets of indistinguishable twins are to be seated at a circular table that has 8 identical chairs. Unique seating arrangements are…
- Question 8 – The chart given below compares the Installed Capacity (MW) of four power generation technologies, T1, T2, T3, and T4, and their Electricity Generation…
- Question 9 – In the 4 × 4 array shown below, each cell of the first three columns has either a cross (X) or a number, as per the given rule. Rule: The number in a…
- Question 10 – During a half-moon phase, the Earth-Moon-Sun form a right triangle. If the Moon-Earth-Sun angle at this half-moon phase is measured to be 89.85°, the…
- Question 11 – Amma’s tone in the context of the given passage is that of: For Amma, the difference between men and women was a kind of discrimination and…
- Question 12 – Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct sequence for the following passage: I am wearing for the first time some (i) that I have never been able to…
- Question 13 – The appropriate synonym for the word ‘ignite’ in the following passage will be: Spirituality must be integrated with education. Self-realization is…
- Question 14 – Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
- Question 15 – Fill in the blanks with the correct combination of tenses for the given sentence: Darwin’s work (i) a related effect that (ii) influenced the…
- Question 16 – Which of the following options holds similar relationship as the words, ‘Music: Notes’?
- Question 17 – In a particular code, if “RAMAN” is written as 52 and “MAP” is written as 33, then how will you code “CLICK”?
- Question 18 – On the basis of the statements given below, which valid assumption(s) can be made? Statements: - Life has suffering - Desire is the cause of suffering…
- Question 19 – If ‘KARAMCHAND’ is coded as ‘ICPCKEFCLF’ what should be the code of ‘CREATION’?
- Question 20 – Given an input line of numbers and words, a machine rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. Here is an illustration of an input and…
- Question 21 – In a certain type of code, ‘they play cricket together’ is written as ‘mv kb lb iv’; ‘they score maximum points’ is written as ‘gb lb mb kv’; ‘cricket…
- Question 22 – Which of the statement(s) about the passage weaken(s) the argument presented? Scientists associate large brains with greater intelligence. However, in…
- Question 23 – The narrator’s use of ‘I’ in the given passage is/are: I have never been any good at the more lurid sort of writing. Psychopathic killers, impotent…
- Question 24 – Which of the following recommended action(s) seem to be appropriate with the stated problem? Stated problem: Many students at educational institutes…
- Question 25 – Read the passage and identify the statement(s) which follow(s) from it: The purpose of this work is to inform educators about the brain science…
- Question 26 – If A says that his mother is the daughter of B’s mother, then how is B related to A?
- Question 27 – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a/an .
- Question 28 – Match the following pairs of fictional characters with the author who created them: Characters Author --- --- --- --- a Phileas Fogg and Jean…
- Question 29 – Which one of the following is a famous detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe?
- Question 30 – “The horror! The horror!” - these are the last words of .
- Question 31 – Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, Bihar. He went on to become famous as an author of a dystopian work which introduced the terms ‘Newspeak’,…
- Question 32 – “I started writing in Gikuyu language in 1977 after seventeen years of involvement in Afro-European literature, in my case Afro-English literature ……
- Question 33 – On the basis of genre, which of the following does NOT belong in this group?
- Question 34 – The Madwoman in the Attic, the title of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s iconic feminist examination of Victorian literature, alludes to which classic…
- Question 35 – Agatha Christie broke a fundamental rule of detective fiction in .
- Question 36 – Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Hetty Sorel, Stephen Guest are all characters created by .
- Question 37 – Charulata is an adaptation of which work by Rabindranath Tagore?
- Question 38 – Which of the following is NOT part of the Theban trilogy?
- Question 39 – The literary term ‘apostrophe’ denotes:
- Question 40 – In the line, “What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?” “he” refers to .
- Question 41 – Which of the following is/are NOT based on a play by William Shakespeare?
- Question 42 – Which of the following is/are NOT composed by Kalidasa?
- Question 43 – Which of these writers is/are associated with the Progressive Writers Association?
- Question 44 – Which of the following novels is/are written by African-American women?
- Question 45 – Which of the following options is NOT the title of a play?
- Question 46 – Match each fictional character with the author who created him: Character Author --- --- --- --- a Uriah Heep i James Joyce b Stephen Dedalus ii Ivan…
- Question 47 – What do the following works have in common? Andha Yug, The Second Turn, Parva, Sarpa Satra
- Question 48 – Match the texts with the language they were originally written in: Text Language --- --- --- --- a Waiting for a Visa i Hindi b The Prisons we Broke…
- Question 49 – Match the excerpts with the texts they have been taken from: a) “A son who will never be older than his motherland – neither older nor younger. There…
- Question 50 – A widely used narrative technique, it allows narrators to temporarily inhabit the consciousness of any of their characters. It is called .
- Question 51 – Which of the following statements is true of Magic Realism?
- Question 52 – wrote ‘Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of .’ Fill in the blanks with the correct pair:
- Question 53 – Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is/are correct?
- Question 54 – “[…] I mean negative capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact…
- Question 55 – Virginia Woolf wrote in “Professions for Women”: “You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. You are able, though…
- Question 56 – Which of the following statements is/are correct?
- Question 57 – “Lear cries out ‘you are men of stones’ as Cordelia hangs from a broken wall. I step out into Chandni Chowk, a street once strewn with jasmine flowers…
- Question 58 – Which of the following statements is/are true of these novels: Anna Karenina, Dead Souls, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Sons.
- Question 59 – “[…] in so far as the academic discourse of history – that is, ‘history’ as a discourse produced at the institutional site of the university – is…
- Question 60 – “What if, in order to save some humans lost in their language, in order to deliver the humans themselves, at the expense of their language, it was…
- Question 61 – Politics --by William Butler Yeats ‘In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings in political terms.’ --Thomas Mann “How can I, that girl…
- Question 62 – “Although feminist philosophers have traditionally sought to show how the body is figured as feminine, or how women have been associated with…
- Question 63 – “I like a look of Agony, Because I know it’s true – Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate, a Throe – The eyes glaze once – and that is Death –…
- Question 64 – “We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; […]. Whereas if we approach a…
- Question 65 – Which factor(s) led to the rise and popularity of the novel in England?