GATE History of English Literature and Literary Studies: Global Perspectives on Literary Studies: Anglophone literatures (British, American, Canadian and other postcolonial literatures) – Previous Year Questions
23 GATE previous year questions on Global Perspectives on Literary Studies: Anglophone literatures (British, American, Canadian and other postcolonial literatures) (History of English Literature and Literary Studies, English (XH2)) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q27 – Which novel by Margaret Atwood is often studied for its feminist themes and dystopian setting?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q31 – “River Sarayu was the pride of Malgudi. It was some ten minutes walk from Ellaman street, the last street of the town, chiefly occupied by oil…
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q32 – “The peasants came like swarms of flies And buzzed the name of God a hundred times To paralyze the evil one.” The above stanza appears in which poem?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q34 – Grimus is the first novel of which well-known author?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q36 – What is/are the central theme/s of Kamala Das’s “An Introduction”?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q43 – Which of the following is/are (an) American novel/s of the 19th century?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q48 – Which feminist author wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q64 – Which of the following themes does Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart explore?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q65 – “My country! In thy days of glory past A beauteous halo circled round thy brow and worshipped as a deity thou wast— Where is thy glory, where the…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q40 – Which of the following work(s) is/are NOT written by Anita Desai?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q52 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are true about “The Republic of Orissa: A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century,” one of the earliest…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q59 – “Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd–seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q60 – “I resemble everyone/but myself, and sometimes see/in shop-windows,/despite the well-known laws/ of optics,/the portrait of a stranger,/date…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q62 – Which of the following novels has/have been written by the novelist who also wrote A Goddess Named Gold?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q63 – Which of the following statement(s) aptly describe(s) the novel, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale?
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q44 – Which of the following novels is/are written by African-American women?
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q49 – 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…
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q28 – In which collection did Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” first appear?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q34 – Which writer is credited with the ‘chutneyfication’ of Indian English?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q40 – Which of the following novels by Chinua Achebe derives its title from W. B. Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming”?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q39 – Which of the following novel-author combination(s) is/are correct?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q41 – Chitra Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices is .
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q61 – “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…