GATE History of English Literature and Literary Studies: English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature – Previous Year Questions
52 GATE previous year questions on English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature (History of English Literature and Literary Studies, English (XH2)) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q33 – Which one of the following war poets did not die in action during World War I?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q40 – Which of the following represent/s Jacobean tragedy?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q45 – Which one of these poems is written by William Wordsworth?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q47 – Which 19th-century novel is known for its protagonist’s struggle as a governess and her complex relationships?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q50 – Which novel by George Orwell depicts a dystopian future under a totalitarian regime?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q51 – Who wrote a fantasy novel featuring Prince Caspian?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q54 – “I resisted all the way: a new thing for me; and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbott were disposed to…
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q55 – Match Column I with Column II: Column I Column II --- --- --- --- i The Elizabethan Age a Dryden ii The Puritan Age b Shakespeare iii The Restoration…
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q56 – Which of the following is/are the title/s of 18th-century periodical/s?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q60 – “Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen, And…
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q61 – “She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on.” Which…
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q62 – Which of the following is/are counted among the Movement poets?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q27 – Which historical event is mentioned in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q30 – Which one of the following options correctly matches the texts with their authors? Text Author --- --- --- --- a The Lay of the Last Minstrel i Samuel…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q31 – Who among the following were the Cavalier Poets?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q32 – Which of the following line(s) has/have been excerpted from W. B. Yeats’ writings?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q39 – Which is/are the special skill(s) associated with Harry Potter in J. K. Rowling’s novel series?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q44 – Which of these works is/are NOT written by Dryden?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q45 – Match the following estimates of Shakespeare with their authors: Estimate Author --- --- --- --- a “We must have admitted that Shakespeare possessed…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q47 – “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,/Is the immediate jewel of their souls/Who steals my purse steals trash; ‘tis something, nothing;/‘Twas…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q53 – Alexander Pope produced an edition of Shakespeare in 1725, for which, he was vehemently criticized by the Shakespearean scholars of his time. One of…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q64 – In The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde repeatedly uses the term ‘Bunbury’. It refers to the .
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q28 – Match the following pairs of fictional characters with the author who created them: Characters Author --- --- --- --- a Phileas Fogg and Jean…
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q30 – “The horror! The horror!” - these are the last words of .
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q31 – 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’,…
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q36 – Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Hetty Sorel, Stephen Guest are all characters created by .
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q40 – In the line, “What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?” “he” refers to .
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q52 – wrote ‘Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of .’ Fill in the blanks with the correct pair:
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q53 – Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is/are correct?
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q54 – “[…] I mean negative capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact…
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q64 – “We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; […]. Whereas if we approach a…
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q27 – Who published the novel The Bell Jar under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q30 – 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…
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q32 – Which of the following is a novel by Charles Dickens?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q38 – Stephen Dedalus is a recurring character in the works of .
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q39 – 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…
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q42 – Which of the following writers are associated with the Theatre of the Absurd?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q43 – Identify the writers who are referred to as ‘metaphysical poets’:
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q47 – Which of the following poems did Robert Browning intend to write as a play?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q48 – The ‘Age of Reason’ in English literary history is popularly known as:
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q50 – Identify the ‘Lake Poets’:
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q52 – Identify the commonality shared by the authors of Mansfield Park and Middle March:
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q53 – Who said, “Poetry makes nothing happen”?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q55 – 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…
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q56 – The 1667 edition of Paradise Lost had 10 books. How many more were added to the 1674 edition?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q30 – Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s comedies to his tragedies?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q32 – Lyrical Ballads, considered to be the manifesto of Romantic Poetry, was first published in the year .
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q35 – 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…
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q47 – Match the following authors with their pseudonyms: Author Pseudonym --- --- i. George Eliot a. Victoria Lucas ii. Sylvia Plath b. Currer Bell iii. H.…
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q50 – 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.…
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q52 – Which of the following books is considered as one of the sources behind T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q64 – 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…