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Literature-English UPSC PYQ 2023

16 questions from the UPSC 2023 examination.

16 questions

1Mediummains10 marks
Literature-English

Answer the following questions/Comment on the topics in about 150 words each: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-I_Q1-->

2Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-II_Q3-->

3Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-II_Q6-->

4Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-II_Q8-->

5Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-I_Q2-->

6Mediummains10 marks
Literature-English

Study the following poem and answer the questions which follow: The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am the only colored student in my class. The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem, through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas, Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y, the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator up to my room, sit down and write this page: It's not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me—we two—you, me, talk on this page. (I hear New York, too.) Me—who? You are white— yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That's American. Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that's true! As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me— although you are older—and white— and somewhat more free. This is my page for English B.40:["$","div","M <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-I_Q5-->

7Mediummains20 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-I_Q3-->

8Mediummains10 marks
Literature-English

Critically comment in about 150 words each on the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-II_Q1-->

9Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-I_Q8-->

10Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-II_Q7-->

11Mediummains10 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following in about 150 words each: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-II_Q5-->

12Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-II_Q2-->

13Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-II_Q4-->

14Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-I_Q4-->

15Mediummains15 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-I_Q7-->

16Mediummains20 marks
Literature-English

Answer all of the following: <!--qid:MAINS_2023_Literature-English-I_Q6-->

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