MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH Paper II– FEB 2013

 

1. Name the character in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, who marries five times :

(A) The Knight

(B) The Squire

(C) The Wife of Bath

(D) The Miller

 

2. Ralf Roister Doister was written by :

(A) Thomas Norton

(B) John Heywood

(C) Nicholas Udall

(D) Thomas Sackville

 

3. Euphues was written by :

(A) John Lyly

(B) Michael Drayton

(C) Richard Hakluyt

(D) John Marston

 

4. “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.” About whom is this said ?

(A) Helen of Troy

(B) Cleopatra

(C) Juliet

(D) Queen Elizabeth I

 

5. Who wrote The Book of the Duchess ?

(A) Marlowe

(B) Chaucer

(C) Kyd

(D) Boccaccio

 

6. Which of the following is a Restoration Comedy ?

(A) Love for Love

(B) Love’s Labour’s Lost

(C) The Changeling

(D) The City Madam

 

7. The first line of Paradise Lost is :

(A) Of man’s first disobedience and the fall

(B) Of man’s prime disobedience and the fall

(C) Of man’s initial disobedience and the fall

(D) Of man’s last disobedience and the fall

 

8. The Country Wife is a play written by :

(A) William Wycherley

(B) Thomas Otway

(C) William Congreve

(D) George Etherege

 

9. Bosola is a character in :

(A) As You Like It

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) Everyman in His Humour

(D) The Changeling

 

10. The characters Passion and Patience appear in :

(A) The Pilgrim’s Progress

(B) Grace Abounding

(C) Paradise Regained

(D) Vertue

 

11. Swift’s A Tale of a Tub is :

(A) a pastoral elegy

(B) a social satire

(C) a romantic tale

(D) a religious allegory

 

12. Which of the following is an epistolary novel ?

(A) Tristram Shandy

(B) The Vicar of Wakefield

(C) The Scarlet Letter

(D) Pamela

 

13. The sentence “A little learning is a dangerous thing !” is from :

(A) Essay of Dramatick Poesie

(B) An Essay on Criticism

(C) An Essay on Man

(D) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

 

14. The Bee and the Spider episode occurs in :

(A) Gulliver’s Travels

(B) The Battle of the Books

(C) Moll Flanders

(D) Tom Jones

 

15. A gothic novel is :

(A) a novel of horror

(B) a novel of education

(C) a novel of art

(D) a detective novel

 

16. In which of the following does the young wife choose the old husband to escape the boredom of country living ?

(A) The School for Scandal

(B) She Stoops to Conquer

(C) Count Basil

(D) Irene

 

17. ‘The Vision of Judgement” is a satire on :

(A) S.T. Coleridge

(B) Robert Southey

(C) William Wordsworth

(D) P.B. Shelley

 

18. Fanny Price is a character in :

(A) Sense and Sensibility

(B) Mansfield Park

(C) Persuasion

(D) Emma

 

19. Which of the following novels of Walter Scott is set in the 18^th century ?

(A) Ivanhoe

(B) The Heart of Midlothian

(C) Talisman

(D) Kenilworth

 

20. Charles Lamb wrote under the pen name :

(A) Eric Blair

(B) Elia

(C) Alpha of the Plough

(D) Amelia

 

21. In which novel of Charles Dickens does the character Uriah Heep appear ?

(A) Great Expectations

(B) Dombey and Son

(C) Hard Times

(D) David Copperfield

 

22. Lockwood is a character in :

(A) Shirley

(B) Wuthering Heights

(C) Jane Eyre

(D) Villette

 

23. Who is the young sheep farmer refused as a husband by Bathsheba Everdene in Far From the Madding Crowd ?

(A) Francis Troy

(B) Mr. Boldwood

(C) Gabriel Oak

(D) Jan Coggan

 

24. Elizabeth Browning wrote :

(A) The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

(B) Sonnets from the Portuguese

(C) Astrophel and Stella

(D) The Golden Gate

 

25. “Andrea del Sarto” is written by :

(A) Tennyson

(B) Browning

(C) Arnold

(D) Rossetti

 

26. George Bernard Shaw was influenced by :

(A) Strindberg

(B) Dostoevsky

(C) Ibsen

(D) Ionesco

 

27. The story “The Selfish Giant” is written by :

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Tolstoy

(C) Hans Anderson

(D) Katherine Mansfield

 

28. The Gokulashtami festival is referred to in :

(A) A Passage to England

(B) A Passage to India

(C) Kanthapura

(D) India : a Million Mutinies Now

 

29. In which poem is modern humanity described as “stuffed men” with “headpiece filled with straw” ?

(A) ‘Ash Wednesday’

(B) ‘The Hollow Men’

(C) ‘East Coker’

(D) ‘Little Gidding’

 

30. “They know and do not know, that action is suffering/And suffering is action ....” These lines appear in :

(A) All My Sons

(B) Desire Under the Elms

(C) Murder in the Cathedral

(D) The Hairy Ape

 

31. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty[1]four is a novel about :

(A) colonialism

(B) totalitarianism

(C) puritanism

(D) male chauvinism

 

32. Which of the following is “an essay on subject of women” ?

(A) A Room With a View

(B) A Room of One’s Own

(C) Room at the Top

(D) Jacob’s Room

 

33. “The Bear and The Squirrel” game is referred to in the play :

(A) The Playboy of the Western World

(B) Strife

(C) Look Back in Anger

(D) Waste

 

34. “Sir, No Man’s Enemy” is written by :

(A) W.B. Yeats

(B) Wilfred Owen

(C) W.H. Auden

(D) Evelyn Waugh

 

35. Mary Turner is the protagonist in the novel :

(A) Sandcastle

(B) The Inheritors

(C) The Portrait of a Lady

(D) The Grass is Singing

 

36. The Ambassadors is written by :

(A) Henry James

(B) William Dean Howells

(C) Samuel Butler

(D) Graham Greene

 

37. “I’d like to get away from earth awhile/And come back to it and begin over.” Who wrote these lines ?

(A) Emily Dickinson

(B) e.e. cummings

(C) Wallace Stevens

(D) Robert Frost

 

38. Billy Biswas is a protagonist in a novel by :

(A) V.S. Naipaul

(B) Arun Joshi

(C) Bhabani Bhattacharya

(D) Rabindranath Tagore

 

39. Which of the following is not a feature of Pre-Raphaelite poetry ?

(A) sensuousness

(B) satire

(C) music

(D) visual beauty

 

40. Who is an Australian aborigine writer ?

(A) Patrick White

(B) Judith Wright

(C) Alexis Wright

(D) Bruce Bennet

 

41. “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author” is an assertion made by :

(A) Julia Kristeva

(B) Raymond Ticard

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Z. Todorov

 

42. With whose theory are the terms “irony” and “paradox” associated ?

(A) Roland Barthes

(B) Mikhail Bakhtin

(C) Cleanth Brooks

(D) Allen Tate

 

43. “Deautomatisation” is a term used by :

(A) The Prague School

(B) Russian Formalists

(C) French Deconstructionists

(D) American New Critics

 

44. Who has translated Derrida’s Of Grammatology into English ?

(A) Ranjit Guha

(B) Homi Bhabha

(C) Gayatri Spivak

(D) Aijaz Ahmed

 

45. Eliot speaks of “dissociation of sensibility” in his essay :

(A) ‘The Metaphysical Poets’

(B) ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’

(C) ‘The Function of Criticism’

(D) ‘Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism’

 

46. Who considered poetry to be “the best and highest fruit of human culture” ?

(A) Sidney

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Wordsworth

(D) Arnold

 

47. “Scansion” means :

(A) the study of stress patterns in poetry

(B) the study of sound patterns in poetry

(C) the study of alliteration in poetry

(D) the study of figures of speech in poetry

48. “Night’s candles are burnt out” is an example of :

(A) Metaphor

(B) Metonymy

(C) Onomatopoeia

(D) Pathetic fallacy

 

49. The term “enjambment” refers to :

(A) striding over of a sentence from one line of poem to the next

(B) different number of syllables in each line

(C) an over-use of emotive language

(D) use of blank verse

 

50. “Inscape” and “Instress” are terms used by :

(A) Robert Browning

(B) Lord Tennyson

(C) G.M. Hopkins

(D) Walter de la Mare

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