MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH Paper III– FEB 2013
Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate alternatives to answer the questions given below it :
Only what word,
Wisest my heart breeds dark
heaven’s bafling ban
Bars or hell’s spell thwarts. This
to hoard unheard,
Heard unheeded, leaves me a lonely
began.
1. The expression ‘what word wisest’ and the words at the end of the lines ‘word’, ‘ban’, ‘unheard’ and ‘began’ are examples respectively of :
(A) rhyme and alliteration
(B) alliteration and rhyme
(C) assonance and rhyme
(D) rhyme and personification
2. In ‘what word wisest’, we have
an example of :
(A) transferred epithet
(B) distortion of form
(C) inversion
(D) repetition
3. The expression ‘a lonely began’
is :
(A) only semantically odd
(B) only syntactically odd
(C) syntactically normal
(D) a poetic deviation
4. Which sounds are repeated in
the poem ?
(A) /w/, /b/, /l/, /d/ and /h/
(B) /w/, /n/, /r/ and /l/
(C) /t/, /g/, /f/ and /st/
(D) /l/, /k/, /g/ and /z/
5. The overall feeling that one
gets from the lines is that of :
(A) anger
(B) frustration
(C) joy
(D) quietude
6. Who was Sycorax ?
(A) The mother of Caliban
(B) A witch in Macbeth
(C) The maid in The Winter’s Tale
(D) The wife of Cassius
7. Troylus and Criseyde was half translated/half
adapted from :
(A) Il Filostrato
(B) Decameron
(C) Divina Commedia
(D) La Vita Nuova
8. There is no fool in the
following play of Shakespeare :
(A) Macbeth
(B) Othello
(C) King Lear
(D) Antony and Cleopatra
9. Who among the following does
not form a part of the University Wits ?
(A) John Lyly
(B) Thomas Kyd
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) David Green
10. Identify the poet who wrote
the lines ‘Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song’ :
(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) Philip Sidney
(C) Samuel Daniel
(D) George Chapman
11. Ralph Roister Doister is
considered to be the first regular English :
(A) Comedy
(B) Tragedy
(C) Novel
(D) Epic
12. Milton Samson is a/an :
(A) Romantic hero
(B) Tragic hero
(C) Comic hero
(D) Anti-hero
13. Francis Bacon’s style can be described
as :
(A) Aphoristic
(B) Discursive
(C) Picturesque
(D) Bare
14. Satan is a grand figure in
Milton’s Paradise Lost :
(A) Book I
(B) Books III and IV
(C) Book IX
(D) Books X, XI and XII
15. Comedy of Humours was best developed
in :
(A) The plays of Shakespeare
(B) The plays of Sheridan
(C) The plays of Ben Jonson
(D) The plays of Molière
16. Avoiding extravagance and emotionalism
was characteristic of the age of :
(A) Chaucer
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Milton
(D) Dryden
17. In the Essay on Criticism,
Alexander Pope deals with .....................
(A) The merits and limitations of the
18th Century poetry
(B) The merits and limitations of 18th
Century criticism
(C) The merits and limitations of 18th
Century drama
(D) The merits and limitations of 18th
century prose
18. The play The Good Natured Man is
..........................
(A) A comedy of humours
(B) A comedy of manners
(C) A sentimental comedy
(D) An anti-sentimental comedy
19. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s
does not deal with .................
(A) Man’s struggle with sin
(B) Life as a journey
(C) The reality of his time
(D) Developments in England
20. Which chronological order of Wycherley’s
plays is correct ?
(A) Love in a Wood—The Gentleman
Dancing Master— The Country Wife—The Plain Dealer
(B) Love in a Wood—The Country Wife—The
Plain Dealer—The Gentleman Dancing Master
(C) Love in a Wood—The Plain Dealer—The
Country Wife—The Gentleman Dancing Master
(D) The Plain Dealer—Love in a Wood—The
Country Wife—The Gentleman Dancing Master
21. Which romantic poet skilfully
blends medieval life with commonplace everyday life of his days ?
(A) William Blake
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) John Keats
(D) S.T. Coleridge
22. The genius of Charles Lamb as an
essayist lies in his power of .........................
(A) Satirizing the society
(B) Describing the beauty of
nature
(C) Philosophising the ideas
(D) Visualizing memories
23. In which poem of Keats,
Milton’s influence is quite visible ?
(A) Hyperion
(B) Endymion
(C) Lamia
(D) Isabella
24. Identify the poet who was
concerned with ‘‘Spots of Time’’ :
(A) Coleridge
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Robert Southey
25. Who named the school
‘metaphysical poets’ to John Donne’s contemporary poets ?
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) John Dryden
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Mathew Arnold
26. Which novel of Jane Austen was
published after her death ?
(A) Mansfield Park
(B) Persuasion
(C) Lady Susan
(D) Emma
27. Hardy’s first published novel is
............
(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Desperate Remedies
(D) The Trumpet Major
28. Richardson’s works appeared in
the following order :
(A) Pamela—Clarissa—Sir Charles Grandison
(B) Pamela—Sir Charles Grandison —Clarissa
(C) Clarissa—Sir Charles Grandison
—Pamela
(D) Clarissa—Pamela—Sir Charles Grandison
29. Which of the following
characters does not appear in Tristram Shandy ?
(A) Corporal Brim
(B) Doctor Slop
(C) Uncle Toby
(D) Narcissa
30. The Jacobite rising of 1745 is
dealt with by Walter Scott in ..............
(A) Antiquary
(B) Guy Mannering
(C) Waverley
(D) Rob Roy
31. Which of the following
literary text was not written by James Joyce ?
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man
(B) Ulysses
(C) Finnegans Wake
(D) The Island
32. From among the following
modern writers, identify the writer who used myths extensively in his
writing :
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) W.B. Yeats
(C) Ezra Pound
(D) W.H. Auden
33. Which is the non-fictional
work of Virginia Woolf ?
(A) To The Lighthouse
(B) Mrs. Dalloway
(C) Modern Fiction
(D) Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
34. J.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea
has ................. act(s).
(A) one
(B) two
(C) three
(D) five
35. Identify D.H. Lawrence’s novel
which is not set in a Colliery background :
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) The Rainbow
(C) Women in Love
(D) The Plummed Serpent
36. The Birthday Party does not
deal with :
(A) Birth Trauma
(B) Oedipus Complex
(C) Betrayal and Punishment
(D) Religious Conflict
37. Animal imagery pervades the
poems of :
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Philip Larkin
(D) Seamus Heaney
38. Waiting for Godot includes :
(A) two boys
(B) one boy
(C) two boys out of whom one denies
the existence of the other
(D) one boy according to the list
of characters but two boys according to Estragon and one
boy according to Vladimir
39. In Lucky Jim Kingsley Arms narrates
:
(A) The prosperity of Jim
(B) The successful life of Jim
(C) The advantages of the life at universities
(D) The sardonic picture of life
in a university
40. John Osborne in Déjà vu revisits
the central characters in :
(A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Inadmissible Evidence
(C) A Subject of Scandal and Concern
(D) A Patriot for Me
41. Aristotle defines in Poetics :
(A) Short story
(B) Tragedy
(C) Delight
(D) Novel
42. New Aestheticism was a
rebellion against ...................
(A) Conservatism of the Victorians
(B) Intuitionism
(C) Romanticism
(D) Humanism
43. Identify from the following a
novel that deals with the Jazz Age :
(A) A Farewell to Arms
(B) The Sound and the Fury
(C) The Great Gatsby
(D) Mainstreet
44. ‘Humanity seems to have
changed around 1890’ was an observation of ......................
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) James Joyce
45. The ‘touchstone method’ meant comparing
a work of art with acknowledged great works of art
and the concept was developed by :
(A) Keats
(B) Mathew Arnold
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) T.S. Eliot
46. Deconstruction consists in
..................
(A) Revealing and subverting the texts
(B) Historical study of texts
(C) Social study of texts
(D) Linguistic study of texts
47. Cultural criticism is
developed by :
(A) Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Fredric Jameson
(D) Peter Demetz
48. The distinction between the
signifier and the signifee, between associative and syntagmatic relations was
made by :
(A) Noam Chosky
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Bloomfield
(D) Firth
49. The main advocate of
deconstruction is :
(A) Martin Heidegaar
(B) Paul de Man
(C) Gadamer
(D) Jacques Derrida
50. Base—superstructure
relationship, unity of opposites, negation of negation are the important
principles of :
(A) Formalism
(B) Reception theory
(C) Marxist literary criticism
(D) Sociological criticism
51. The Direct method of teaching
a language insists on :
(A) Self-learning
(B) The use of the target language
in the classroom
(C) Translation as an important activity
(D) The use of audio-visual aids
in the classroom
52. Guided composition involves
..............
(A) Dictating a piece of composition
(B) Supplying a model text
(C) Providing points
(D) Making available questions previously
asked
53. Which of the following does
not have any influence on the learning of English in India ?
(A) The learner’s attitude
(B) The attitude of the second language
community
(C) The teacher’s attitude
(D) The attitude of the first language
community
54. The process of language
acquisition begins ...................
(A) At the age of 6 months
(B) During adolescence
(C) When a child joins a school
(D) During infancy
55. Interrelated languages are metaphorically
said to belong to the same ...................... of languages.
(A) Branch
(B) Family
(C) Community
(D) Group
56. In Camus’ novel The Outsider
(or The Stranger) :
(A) The sun is oppressive
(B) The sun is benign
(C) The sun provides the much needed
warmth
(D) Women do sun-bathing
57. Baudelaire’s poem ‘Flowers of
Evil’ influenced :
(A) Symbolist poetry
(B) Expressionist poetry
(C) War poetry
(D) Movement poetry
58. Which of the following
statements about Sophocles’ Antigone is not true ?
(A) Antigone is a feminist
(B) Antigone does not love Haemon
(C) The play dramatizes a conflict
between human law and Divine law
(D) Ismene is a foil to Antigone
59. Which one from the following
is a 17th century French play that is open to a feminist interpretation ?
(A) Le Cid (The Cid)
(B) Phèdre (Phaedre)
(C) L’Avarre (The Miser)
(D) Tartuffe
60. The man who tries to blackmail
Nora in Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ is .......................
(A) Dr. Rank
(B) Bernick
(C) Krogsted
(D) Kroll
61. Cacoon is a novel by :
(A) Pannalal Patel
(B) Bhalchandra Nemade
(C) Kamaleshwar
(D) Nirmal Verma
62. ‘I am an Indian poet writing in
English.’ Who made this statement ?
(A) Arun Kolatkar
(B) Kamala Das
(C) Nissim Ezekiel
(D) Keki Daruwallah
63. The subplot in ‘Anna Karenina’
is the story of :
(A) Levin and Kitty
(B) Sliva and Dolly
(C) Vorenue and Koznishev
(D) Anna and Vronski
64. Which Indian dramatist has
formed a theatre group ?
(A) Mahesh Dattani
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) Badal Sircar
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
65. Which Indian author denies
that she is a feminist ?
(A) Gauri Deshpande
(B) Kamala Markandeya
(C) Kamala Das
(D) Shashi Deshpande
66. Who has described India as a ‘Continent
of Circe’ ?
(A) Nirad Chaudhari
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Khushwant Singh
(D) Girish Karnad
67. Which literary genre is the
strongest in non-British English Literature ?
(A) Fiction
(B) Poetry
(C) Drama
(D) Non-fictional prose
68. Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s River
Between deals with :
(A) The cultural conflict between
the natives and the outsiders
(B) The terrible conflict in Kenya
(C) The adverse impact of industrialization
(D) Socio-cultural unrest in Kenya
due to colonizers
69. Identify the novel which has
more than two narrators :
(A) The Turn of the Screw
(B) Ambassadors
(C) The Portrait of a Lady
(D) Daisy Miller
70. The great American
autobiography of the colonial period was written by :
(A) Cotton Mather
(B) Benjamin Franklin
(C) Thomas Jefferson
(D) Washington Irving
71. Faucault’s ‘panoptical’ state
of affairs shows :
(A) A world in which we are under constant surveillance and we constantly monitor ourselves for signs of abnormality
(B) A world that is at war with itself
(C) A world divided by political, social
and cultural diversities
(D) A world suffering from plague and
leprosy
72. Primacy of theory, decentering the subject, reading of the text, discourse in the text are four important principles of ..................
(A) Structuralism
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Historicism
(D) Reader-response theory
73. T.S. Eliot developed the
notion of :
(A) Imagination
(B) Creativity
(C) Tradition
(D) Genius
74. The concept of intertextuality
was developed well by :
(A) Lacan
(B) Kristeva
(C) Derrida
(D) Wayne Booth
75. Levi-Strauss, Jean Piaget and Saussure
are regarded as pioneers of :
(A) Modern criticism
(B) Reception theory
(C) Structuralism
(D) Stylistics
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7-A |
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11-A |
12-B |
13-A |
14-A |
15-C |
16-D |
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25-C |
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65-D |
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