MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH Paper II– NOVEMBER 2011

 

1. Which class does not provide any character in Chaucer’s “Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales ?

(A) The Nobility

(B) The Trading Class

(C) The Clergy

(D) The Artisan Class

 

2. The lyric “Come live with me and be my love” was written by :

(A) William Shakespeare

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) Samuel Daniel

 

3. Which of the following works is a collection of sonnets ?

(A) Epithalamion

(B) Amoretti

(C) The Shepherd’s Calendar

(D) Colin Clout’s Come home again

 

4. “Is this the dagger which I see before me”, these words are said by :

(A) Hamlet

(B) Macbeth

(C) Richard II

(D) Henry IV

 

5. Identify the play which is open to post-colonial reading :

(A) Macbeth

(B) Henry IV Part I

(C) The Tempest

(D) The Winter’s Tale

 

6. Identify the author of “I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I did, till we lov’d” :

(A) George Wither

(B) Andrew Marvell

(C) John Donne

(D) Robert Greene

 

7. Identify the classical tragedy from the following :

(A) Samson Agonistes

(B) Lycidas

(C) Il Penseroso

(D) Comus

 

8. Which of the following is the earliest practitioner of the Comedy of Manners ?

(A) Congreve

(B) Wycherley

(C) Etherege

(D) Farquhar

 

9. Identify the Comedy of Humours from the following :

(A) The Alchemist

(B) The Man of Mode

(C) The Old Bachelor

(D) The Gentleman Dancing Master

 

10. In which novel of Fielding the hero and the heroine are based on Fielding and his first wife ?

(A) Tom Jones

(B) Joseph Andrews

(C) Amelia

(D) Jonathan Wild the Great

 

11. The first major English Dictionary was compiled by :

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) Addison

(D) Richard Steele

 

12. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard mourns the death of :

(A) James Thomson

(B) Soldiers

(C) The Common Man

(D) Cowper

 

16. Queen Mab was written by :

(A) P. B. Shelley

(B) J. Keats

(C) R. Southey

(D) G. G. Byron

 

17. In Jane Austen’s novel Emma, Emma falls in love with :

(A) Knightley

(B) John Fairfax

(C) Colonel Fitzwilliams

(D) Thomas Bertram

 

18. The poem The Lady of the Lake is written by :

(A) Tennyson

(B) Wordsworth

(C) Scott

(D) Byron

 

13. Which work of Browning deals with the murder of a young wife, Pompilia ?

(A) Fra Lippo Lippi

(B) Andrea del Sarto

(C) Rabbi Ben Ezra

(D) The Ring and the Book

 

14. Who amongst the following wrote Gothic Novels ?

(A) Laurence Sterne

(B) Tobias Smollett

(C) Daniel Defoe

(D) Ann Radcliffe

 

15. Who has written the following lines

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive

But to be young was very heaven” ?

(A) P. B. Shelley

(B) J. Keats

(C) G. G. Byron

(D) W. Wordsworth

 

19. Confessions of an Opium Eater is written by :

(A) De Quincey

(B) Coleridge

(C) Hazlitt

(D) Leigh Hunt

 

20. The name of the mad woman in Jane Eyre is :

(A) Mrs. Reed

(B) Adele

(C) Bertha Mason

(D) Mrs. Fairfax

 

21. Which of the following novels of Charles Dickens has auto biographical elements ?

(A) David Copperfield

(B) Nicholas Nickleby

(C) Hard Times

(D) Bleak House

 

22. Which character in Middlemarch is an idealist ?

(A) Dr. Lydgate

(B) Mr. Farebrother

(C) Fred Vincy

(D) Caleb Garth

 

23. Thomas Hardy’s Dynasts is a :

(A) A Collection of Lyrics

(B) A Play

(C) A Novel

(D) An Epic Poem

 

24. Idea of a University is written by :

(A) Cardinal Newman

(B) Carlyle

(C) Ruskin

(D) Arnold

 

25. What is Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession about ?

(A) Child Labour

(B) Prostitution

(C) Contemporary Politics

(D) Science Fantasy

 

26. Who is Galsworthy’s Man of Property ?

(A) Bosinney

(B) Jolyon

(C) Larry

(D) Soames

 

27. T. S. Eliot’s play The Family Reunion takes as its model a Greek play entitled :

(A) Agamemnon

(B) Antigone

(C) Hippolytus

(D) Eumenides

 

28. Which Irish author has frequently included the mythical figure of Cuchulain in his works ?

(A) J. M. Synge

(B) W. B. Yeats

(C) Sean O’ Casey

(D) James Joyce

 

29. In which novel did Conrad first introduce his technique of ‘oblique narrative’ ?

(A) The Nigger of Narcissus

(B) Lord Jim

(C) Heart of Darkness

(D) Kangaroo

 

30. The notion of “collective unconscious” was developed by :

(A) Carl Jung

(B) Freud

(C) Lacan

(D) Adler

 

31. The Craft of Fiction is written by :

(A) Cleanth Brooks

(B) Henry James

(C) Percy Lubbock

(D) E. M. Forster

 

32. “Snowball” is a character in :

(A) Animal Farm

(B) Gulliver’s Travels

(C) The Pilgrim’s Progress

(D) Robinson Crusoe

 

33. Joey is a character in Harold Pinter’s :

(A) The Caretaker

(B) The Homecoming

(C) The Room

(D) The Dumb Waiter

 

34. Which landscape is described in Ted Hughes’ poetry ?

(A) Lancashire

(B) Yorkshire

(C) Surrey

(D) Derbyshire

 

35. The novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is written by :

(A) Allan Sillitoe

(B) John Braine

(C) Kingsley Amis

(D) John Wain

 

36. The novels of Iris Murdoch deal with :

(A) Existentialism

(B) Marxism

(C) Theology

(D) Spiritualism

 

37. The sub-title of Moby Dick is :

(A) The Angel Whale

(B) The Whale Bone

(C) The Whale Under the Sea

(D) The White Whale

 

38. The poem Passage to India is written by :

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) Carl Sandburg

(C) Robert Frost

(D) R. W. Emerson

 

39. Wedding Album is a play written by :

(A) Girish Karnad

(B) Manjula Padmanabhan

(C) Mahesh Dattani

(D) Makarand Sathe

 

40. The poem The Sunshine Cat is written by :

(A) Mamta Kalia

(B) Gauri Deshpande

(C) Meena Alexander

(D) Kamala Das

 

41. Which of the following Caribbean writers has got the Nobel Prize ?

(A) Kenneth Ramchand

(B) Derek Walcott

(C) Shiva Naipaul

(D) Wilson Harris

 

42. “Can the Subaltern Speak” is a treatise written by :

(A) Gayatri Spivak

(B) Homi Bhabha

(C) Aijaz Ahmed

(D) Edward Said

 

43. ‘New Historicism’ was propounded by :

(A) Greenblatt

(B) Bakhtin

(C) Wimsatt

(D) Eagleton

 

44. Preface to Shakespeare is :

(A) Introduction to the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays

(B) An introduction to Shakespeare’s tragedies

(C) Dr. Samuel Johnson’s essay on Shakespeare

(D) A commentary on Ben Jonson’s views on Shakespeare

 

45. “Land and sea

Give themselves up to jollity

And with the heart of May

Doth every beast keep holiday.”

These lines exemplify :

(A) Pathetic Fallacy

(B) Transferred Epithet

(C) Simile

(D) Synecdoche

 

46. “Cannon to right of them

Cannon to left of them

Cannon in front of them

Volleyed and thundered.”

The dominant metre in these lines is :

(A) Dactyl

(B) Iamb

(C) Amphibrach

(D) Trochee

 

47. An image is :

(A) a direct comparison

(B) a vague metaphor

(C) a mental picture of an object

(D) a subtle repetition

 

48. “Womanism” is a term introduced  by :

(A) Marge Piercy

(B) Toni Morrison

(C) Alice Walker

(D) Audre Lorde

 

49. The central concept of ‘existentialism’ is :

(A) rejection of pessimism

(B) a realisation of nothingness

(C) acceptance of predeterminism

(D) protest against fatalism

 

50. T. S. Eliot showed the manuscript of The Wasteland to :

(A) Ezra Pound

(B) R. W. Emerson

(C) Ted Hughes

(D) James Frazer

 

ANSWER KEY:

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

 

EXPLANATIONS:

1-10

1. D - The Artisan Class
   • Chaucer’s Prologue to The Canterbury Tales represents various social classes but does not include a representative from the Artisan Class.
2. C - Christopher Marlowe
   • "Come live with me and be my love" is the opening line of Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
3. B - Amoretti
   • Amoretti is a collection of 89 sonnets by Edmund Spenser.
4. B - Macbeth
   • This famous soliloquy appears in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 1) when Macbeth hallucinates a dagger before murdering Duncan.
5. C - The Tempest
   • The Tempest is often interpreted through a postcolonial lens, analyzing Prospero’s rule over Caliban.
6. C - John Donne
   • These lines are from Donne’s poem The Good Morrow, expressing love and philosophical depth.
7. A - Samson Agonistes
   • John Milton’s Samson Agonistes is a tragic closet drama written in the style of Greek tragedies.
8. C - Etherege
   • George Etherege’s The Man of Mode (1676) is considered the first Comedy of Manners.
9. A - The Alchemist
   • Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610) is a Comedy of Humours, where characters are driven by a single dominant trait.
10. C - Amelia

• Fielding’s Amelia is based on his own life and marriage.

11-20

11. A - Dr. Johnson

• A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) was compiled by Samuel Johnson.

12. C - The Common Man

• Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) mourns the ordinary, uncelebrated lives of common people.

13. D - The Ring and the Book

• This long dramatic monologue by Robert Browning is based on a real-life murder trial.

14. D - Ann Radcliffe

• Radcliffe was a pioneer of Gothic fiction, known for The Mysteries of Udolpho.

15. D - W. Wordsworth

• These lines appear in Wordsworth’s The Prelude, reflecting the excitement of the French Revolution.

16. A - P. B. Shelley

• Queen Mab is a political and philosophical poem by Shelley.

17. A - Knightley

• In Austen’s Emma, Emma eventually falls in love with Mr. Knightley.

18. C - Scott

• The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Walter Scott.

19. A - De Quincey

• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey’s autobiographical work on his opium addiction.

20. C - Bertha Mason

• In Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason is the madwoman in the attic, hidden by Mr. Rochester.

21-30

21. A - David Copperfield

• This novel is partially autobiographical, reflecting Dickens’s own childhood experiences.

22. A - Dr. Lydgate

• In Middlemarch, Dr. Lydgate is an ambitious idealist who faces social and financial struggles.

23. D - An Epic Poem

• The Dynasts by Hardy is a long verse drama about the Napoleonic Wars.

24. A - Cardinal Newman

• The Idea of a University outlines Newman’s views on education.

25. B - Prostitution

• Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession critiques the social and economic forces leading women to prostitution.

26. D - Soames

• The Man of Property is the first novel in The Forsyte Saga, focusing on Soames Forsyte’s possessiveness.

27. D - Eumenides

• Eliot’s The Family Reunion is influenced by Aeschylus’s Eumenides.

28. B - W. B. Yeats

• Yeats frequently used the myth of Cuchulain in his poetry and plays.

29. B - Lord Jim

• Conrad’s Lord Jim introduces the technique of oblique narrative, where the story is told from multiple perspectives.

30. A - Carl Jung

• Jung developed the idea of the “collective unconscious,” a set of shared memories in human culture.

31-40

31. C - Percy Lubbock

• The Craft of Fiction is a book on literary criticism by Lubbock.

32. A - Animal Farm

• Snowball, a pig, is a key character in Orwell’s Animal Farm, representing Trotsky.

33. B - The Homecoming

• Joey is a character in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming.

34. B - Yorkshire

• Ted Hughes’ poetry often describes the harsh Yorkshire landscape of his childhood.

35. A - Allan Sillitoe

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a working-class novel by Sillitoe.

36. A - Existentialism

• Iris Murdoch’s novels explore existentialist themes of freedom and morality.

37. D - The White Whale

• The subtitle of Melville’s Moby-Dick is The White Whale.

38. A - Walt Whitman

• Whitman’s Passage to India celebrates exploration and human progress.

39. B - Manjula Padmanabhan

• Wedding Album is a contemporary Indian play by Padmanabhan.

40. D - Kamala Das

• The Sunshine Cat is a poem by Kamala Das, dealing with themes of love and loneliness.

41-50

41. B - Derek Walcott

• Walcott, a Caribbean poet, won the Nobel Prize in 1992.

42. A - Gayatri Spivak

• Can the Subaltern Speak? is a foundational postcolonial essay by Spivak.

43. A - Greenblatt

• Stephen Greenblatt is the main theorist behind New Historicism.

44. C - Dr. Samuel Johnson’s essay on Shakespeare

• Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare evaluates Shakespeare’s works.

45. A - Pathetic Fallacy

• The lines describe nature’s emotions, a classic example of pathetic fallacy.

46. A - Dactyl

• Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade uses dactylic metre.

47. C - A mental picture of an object

• In literature, an image is a vivid description that appeals to the senses.

48. C - Alice Walker

• Walker introduced “Womanism” to describe Black feminism.

49. B - A realization of nothingness

• Existentialism explores the absurdity and meaninglessness of life.

50. A - Ezra Pound

• Pound helped edit Eliot’s The Waste Land, making significant revisions.