MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH Paper II– AUGUST 2011

 

1. The phrase “Fair is foul” is associated with :

(A) The Alchemist

(B) Macbeth

(C) The Malcontent

(D) The Broken Heart

 

2. Helen appears in :

(A) Dr Faustus

(B) The Spanish Tragedy

(C) Women Beware Women

(D) The Duchess of Malfi

 

3. Ferdinand is a character in :

(A) The Tempest

(B) The White Devil

(C) A Women Killed with Kindness

(D) A New Way to Pay Old Debts

 

4. Chaucer’s pilgrims were going to the shrine of :

(A) St. Thomas à Beckett

(B) St. Peter

(C) St. Michael

(D) St. George

 

5. “To His Coy Mistress” is by :

(A) Donne

(B) Quarles

(C) Herbert

(D) Marvell

 

6. Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy was first published in :

(A) 1582

(B) 1668

(C) 1821

(D) 1764

 

7. Which of the following works by Milton is an elegy ?

(A) Samson Agonistes

(B) Lycidas

(C) Paradise Regained

(D) Il Penseroso

 

8. Which of the following works was written by Bacon ?

(A) The Anatomy of Melancholy

(B) The Advancement of Learning

(C) Utopia

(D) The Courtier

 

9. Ben Jonson is known for :

(A) The comedy of manners

(B) The comedy of humours

(C) Sentimental comedy

(D) Pastoral comedy

 

10. The Yahoos feature in :

(A) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(B) Gulliver’s Travels

(C) A Journal of the Plague Year

(D) The Vicar of Wakefield

 

11. Which one of the following poets wrote in an antique vocabulary going back three centuries ?

(A) Blake

(B) Cowper

(C) Gray

(D) Chatterton

 

12. Which of the following poets wrote in the Scottish Dialect ?

(A) Sir Walter Scott

(B) Robert Burns

(C) William Blake

(D) George Crabbe

 

16. The Biblical character that figures in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is :

(A) Ahab

(B) Susanna

(C) Ruth

(D) Mary Magdalene

 

17. Which of the following is an autobiographical poem ?

(A) ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’

(B) ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’

(C) The Prelude

(D) Don Juan

 

18. “Ode To The West Wind” was written by :

(A) Shelley

(B) Keats

(C) Byron

(D) Southey

 

13. “The Vanity of Human Wishes” is by :

(A) Thackeray

(B) Fielding

(C) Johnson

(D) Goldsmith

 

14. Pope’s Satires and Epistles are imitations of :

(A) Horace

(B) Virgil

(C) Homer

(D) Juvenal

 

15. Which of the following works is NOT by Jane Austen ?

(A) Sense and Sensibility

(B) Northanger Abbey

(C) Rebecca

(D) Emma

 

19. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria is a reply to :

(A) Shelley’s Defence of Poetry

(B) Lamb’s Tales From Shakespeare

(C) Wordsworth’s ‘Preface’ to The Lyrical Ballads

(D) Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare

 

20. The title Far From The Madding Crowd is taken from :

(A) Pope’s Rape of the Lock

(B) Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

(C) Dryden’s Religio Laici

(D) Cowper’s The Task

 

21. Which of the following works is NOT by Gerard Manley Hopkins ?

(A) The Dynasts

(B) “God’s Grandeur”

(C) “Pied Beauty”

(D) “Felix Randal”

 

22. “Poetry is a criticism of life”, says :

(A) Philip Sidney

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) Willian Wordsworth

(D) S.T. Coleridge

 

23. Michael Henchard is a character in :

(A) Richardson’s Clarissa

(B) Fanny Burney’s Evelina

(C) Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge

(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch

 

24. “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning is :

(A) an ode

(B) a ballad

(C) a dramatic monologue

(D) an elegy

 

25. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” contains a reference to the legend of :

(A) Hercules

(B) Icarus

(C) Atlas

(D) Oedipus

 

26. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity”occurs in a poem by :

(A) Ezra Pound

(B) W.B. Yeats

(C) W.H. Auden

(D) T.S. Eliot

 

27. “Little Gidding” forms a part of :

(A) The Prelude

(B) Don Juan

(C) Four Quartets

(D) Caliban Upon Setebos

 

28. The term “epiphany” is particularly associated with :

(A) Charles Dickens

(B) Theodore Dreiser

(C) James Joyce

(D) Margaret Mitchell

 

29. “In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo” is from :

(A) The Waste Land

(B) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

(C) “The Hollow Men”

(D) “The Journey of the Magi”

 

30. Crow is a book of poems by :

(A) Ted Hughes

(B) Philip Larkin

(C) e e cummings

(D) Kingsley Amis

 

31. Which of the following is NOT a dystopia ?

(A) Animal Farm

(B) Brave New World

(C) 1984

(D) The Way of All Flesh

 

32. Which of the following playwrights has reworked material from Hamlet in one of his plays ?

(A) Tom Stoppard

(B) John Whiting

(C) Terence Rattigan

(D) Christopher Fry

 

33. William Golding is the author of :

(A) The Coral Island

(B) Lucky Jim

(C) The Inheritors

(D) After the Fall

 

34. The author of Clockwork Orange is :

(A) Doris Lessing

(B) Anthony Burgess

(C) Iris Murdoch

(D) Angela Carter

 

35. The title Midnight’s Children relates to :

(A) 1857

(B) 1947

(C) 1965

(D) 1971

 

36. Celie is a character in Alice Walker’s :

(A) The Colour Purple

(B) The Third Life of Grant Copeland

(C) The Temple of My Familiars

(D) Meridian

 

37. Who amongst the following was a “Transcendentalist” ?

(A) Emerson

(B) Mark Twain

(C) Hawthorne

(D) Dreiser

 

38. Ramaswami is the central character in :

(A) Kanthapura

(B) The Serpent and the Rope

(C) The Cat and Shakespeare

(D) Comrade Kirillov

 

39. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is :

(A) A romantic novel

(B) A dystopian novel

(C) a novel using magic realism

(D) a picaresque novel

 

40. A Dance of the Forests is a play by :

(A) Chinua Achebe

(B) Wole Soyinka

(C) Gloria Naylor

(D) Richard Wright

 

41. Which of the following belongs to the school of New Criticism ?

(A) Cleanth Brooks

(B) John Dryden

(C) Murray Krieger

(D) W.H. Auden

 

42. Structuralism owes its origin to :

(A) Jacques Lacan

(B) Noam Chomsky

(C) Ferdinand de Saussure

(D) Homi Bhabha

 

43. Which of the following is NOT a feminist writer ?

(A) Héléne Cixous

(B) Kate Millett

(C) Elaine Showalter

(D) Barbara Cartland

 

44. The term ‘Apocryphal’ refers to :

(A) Works wrongly attributed to an author

(B) Minor works of an author

(C) Lost works of an author

(D) Collaborative work done by an author

 

45. “Is There a Text in This Class ?” is written by ?

(A) Paul Ricoeur

(B) J. Hillis Miller

(C) Julia Kristeva

(D) Stanley Fish

 

46. Eliot’s phrase ‘objective correlative’ occurs in his essay on :

(A) Metaphysical poets

(B) Hamlet

(C) ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’

(D) ‘Milton’

 

47. The Spenserian stanza has :

(A) Six lines

(B) Seven lines

(C) Eight lines

(D) Nine lines

 

48. Which of the following is an example of Synecdoche ?

(A) ‘The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew’

(B) ‘Give us this day our daily bread’

(C) ‘A little more than Kin, and less than Kind’

(D) ‘A little learning is a dangerous thing’

 

49. What is the basic metre of the following line ?

‘And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea.”

(A) iambic

(B) trochee

(C) dactyl

(D) anapaest

 

50. The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is :

(A) abba abba cdcdcd

(B) abab cdcd efefgg

(C) abab bcbc cdcdee

(D) abab abab abcabc

ANSWER KEY:

1. B	2. A	3. A	4. A	5. D	6. B	7. B	8. B	9. B	10. B
11. D	12. B	13. C	14. A	15. C	16. C	17. C	18. A	19. C	20. B
21. A	22. B	23. C	24. C	25. B	26. B	27. C	28. C	29. B	30. A
31. D	32. A	33. C	34. B	35. B	36. A	37. A	38. B	39. B	40. B
41. A	42. C	43. D	44. A	45. D	46. B	47. D	48. B	49. D	50. B

EXPLANATIONS

1-10

1. B) Macbeth – "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" is a famous line from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, spoken by the witches.
2. A) Dr Faustus – Helen of Troy appears as a vision in Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus.
3. A) The Tempest – Ferdinand is a prince in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, son of Alonso, King of Naples.
4. A) St. Thomas à Beckett – Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales pilgrims travel to Canterbury to visit St. Thomas à Beckett’s shrine.
5. D) Marvell – To His Coy Mistress is a famous metaphysical poem by Andrew Marvell.
6. B) 1668 – Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy was published in 1668, discussing classical and modern drama.
7. B) Lycidas – Lycidas is an elegy written by John Milton in memory of his friend Edward King.
8. B) The Advancement of Learning – Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning (1605) promotes scientific inquiry.
9. B) The comedy of humours – Ben Jonson developed the comedy of humours, where characters were driven by exaggerated personality traits.
10. B) Gulliver’s Travels – The Yahoos are brutish, uncivilized creatures in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.

11-20

11. D) Chatterton – Thomas Chatterton used an archaic vocabulary, mimicking medieval English.
12. B) Robert Burns – Burns wrote in the Scottish dialect, evident in poems like Auld Lang Syne.
13. C) Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes is a satirical poem by Samuel Johnson.
14. A) Horace – Alexander Pope imitated the Roman poet Horace in his Satires and Epistles.
15. C) Rebecca – Rebecca is by Daphne du Maurier, not Jane Austen.
16. C) Ruth – The Biblical figure Ruth is mentioned in Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale.
17. C) The Prelude – The Prelude is Wordsworth’s autobiographical epic poem.
18. A) Shelley – Ode to the West Wind is a famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
19. C) Wordsworth’s ‘Preface’ to The Lyrical Ballads – Biographia Literaria by Coleridge responds to Wordsworth’s Preface.
20. B) Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ – Far From the Madding Crowd is taken from Thomas Gray’s poem.

21-30

21. A) The Dynasts – The Dynasts is by Thomas Hardy, not Gerard Manley Hopkins.
22. B) Matthew Arnold – Arnold said, "Poetry is a criticism of life" in his essays.
23. C) Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge – Michael Henchard is the tragic hero of Hardy’s novel.
24. C) a dramatic monologue – Porphyria’s Lover is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning.
25. B) Icarus – Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden references Icarus from Greek mythology.
26. B) W.B. Yeats – The quote appears in Yeats’s poem The Second Coming.
27. C) Four Quartets – Little Gidding is one of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.
28. C) James Joyce – Joyce popularized the term "epiphany" in literature.
29. B) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – This line is from T.S. Eliot’s poem.
30. A) Ted Hughes – Crow is a poetry collection by Ted Hughes.

31-40

31. D) The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler’s novel is not a dystopia, unlike the other choices.
32. A) Tom Stoppard – Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is based on Hamlet.
33. C) The Inheritors – William Golding wrote The Inheritors.
34. B) Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange is by Anthony Burgess.
35. B) 1947 – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie refers to India’s independence in 1947.
36. A) The Colour Purple – Celie is the protagonist of The Colour Purple by Alice Walker.
37. A) Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leading figure in Transcendentalism.
38. B) The Serpent and the Rope – Ramaswami is the protagonist in Raja Rao’s novel.
39. B) A dystopian novel – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel.
40. B) Wole Soyinka – A Dance of the Forests is a play by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka.

41-50

41. A) Cleanth Brooks – Cleanth Brooks was a key figure in New Criticism.
42. C) Ferdinand de Saussure – Structuralism is based on Saussure’s linguistic theories.
43. D) Barbara Cartland – Cartland was a romance novelist, not a feminist writer.
44. A) Works wrongly attributed to an author – Apocryphal means falsely ascribed works.
45. D) Stanley Fish – Is There a Text in This Class? is by Stanley Fish.
46. B) Hamlet – Eliot’s concept of the objective correlative is from his essay on Hamlet.
47. D) Nine lines – A Spenserian stanza consists of nine lines (eight iambic pentameter + one alexandrine).
48. B) ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ – This is an example of synecdoche, where "bread" represents food or sustenance.
49. D) anapaest – The given line follows an anapestic metre (unstressed-unstressed-stressed).
50. B) abab cdcd efef gg – This is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet.