MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH Paper II– DEC 2013

 

1. A caesura is a :

(A) pause in a stanza

(B) pause at the end of a line of verse

(C) pause in a line of verse

(D) pause in the beginning of a line of verse

 

2. Which of the following statements about ‘Sons and Lovers’ is false ?

(A) Paul Morel rejects Mirian because his mother sees her as a rival

(B) Paul Morel’s affair with Clara is symbolic of the consummation of his love for his mother

(C) Paul Morel is unable to have a satisfactory sexual life with Clara

(D) Mrs. Morel, who is from the middle class, looks down upon her working class husband

 

3. ‘A Passage to India’ is a novel with the Indian setting written by :

(A) Rudyard Kipling

(B) Kiran Nagarkar

(C) Raja Rao

(D) E.M. Forster

 

4. In which year, W.B. Yeats published his first anthology of poems ?

(A) 1889

(B) 1899

(C) 1909

(D) 1919

 

5. Identify the play that is not set in Ireland :

(A) John Bull’s Other Island

(B) The Playboy of the Western World

(C) A Woman of No Importance

(D) Juno and the Paycock

 

6. In The Faerie Queene, the twelve knights were designed to represent twelve :

(A) Virtues

(B) Vices

(C) Crimes

(D) Follies

 

7. Which one is a sequel to Look Back in Anger ?

(A) Under Plain Cover

(B) The Entertainer

(C) Dejavu

(D) A Better Class of Person

 

8. The anthology Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath has been edited by :

(A) Dylan Thomas

(B) Ted Hughes

(C) Philip Larkin

(D) John Betjeman

 

9. The Sonnet was introduced in England by :

(A) Surrey

(B) Shakespeare

(C) Sidney

(D) Wyatt

 

10. In which tale, the wife condemns celibacy by describing her life with five late husbands ?

(A) ‘The Cook’s Tale’

(B) ‘The Reeve’s Tale’

(C) ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’

(D) ‘The Franklin’s Tale’

 

11. Which of the following is not a drama by Beckett ?

(A) Murphy

(B) Happy Days

(C) End Game

(D) Act Without Words

 

12. When Everyman is summoned by Death, who agrees to accompany him ?

(A) Fellowship

(B) Good deeds

(C) Strength

(D) Beauty

 

13. Portia is a character in :

(A) Antony and Cleopatra

(B) Julius Caesar

(C) Coriolanus

(D) Timon of Athens

 

14. Who wrote The Epithalamian ?

(A) Edmund Spenser

(B) Sir Philip Sidney

(C) John Lyly

(D) Samuel Daniel

 

15. Which of the following plays has a female protagonist ?

(A) Inadmissible Evidence

(B) The Workhouse Donkey

(C) A Man for All Seasons

(D) A Taste of Honey

 

16. Who wrote The Revenger’s Tragedy ?

(A) Cyril Tourneur

(B) Thomas Middleton

(C) George Chapman

(D) John Marston

 

17. Who among the following is not a metaphysical poet ?

(A) George Herbert

(B) Henry Vaughan

(C) Richard Lovelace

(D) Thomas Carew

 

18. Leviathan is authored by :

(A) John Milton

(B) John Dryden

(C) Thomas Hobbes

(D) Thomas Browne

 

19. Winston Smith is a character in :

(A) Burmese Days

(B) 1984

(C) The Heart of the Matter

(D) Comedians

 

20. Which of the following plays makes use of Greek mythology ?

(A) Desire under the Elms

(B) Emperor Jones

(C) Beyond the Horizon

(D) A Touch of the Poet

 

21. Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls deals with :

(A) World War I

(B) The Spanish Civil War

(C) World War II

(D) The Irish Civil War

 

22. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is a ................ novelist.

(A) Kenyan

(B) Nigerian

(C) South African

(D) Rhodesian

 

23. Identify the Realistic/Naturalistic play :

(A) A Streetcar Named Desire

(B) The American Dream

(C) Long Day’s Journey into Night

(D) A View From the Bridge

 

24. Who is the hero of The Princes ?

(A) Hira Raje

(B) Hiroji

(C) Hira Singh

(D) Hiralal

 

25. ‘‘My mother only said/Thank god, the scorpion picked on me/And spared my children.’’ These lines are from:

(A) Sight of the Scorpion

(B) Night of the Scorpion

(C) Bite of the Scorpion

(D) God of the Scorpions

 

26. Identify the comedy of Ben Jonson that verges on tragedy :

(A) The Alchemist

(B) Bartholomew Fair

(C) Volpone, or the Fox

(D) Every Man Out of His Humour

 

27. Identify the false statement about Congreve’s The Way of the World :

(A) Millamant, unlike other women characters in Restoration comedy, is not a promiscuous woman

(B) Millamant is a new heroine because she is deeply in love with her admirer

(C) Mirabell wants to continue his affair with Mrs. Fainall

(D) Mirabell does not love Mrs. Marwood

 

28. Ignoring literature’s referential function; the way it reflects the world  we live in, and giving autonomous status to literature is the practice of :

(A) Marxist criticism

(B) Phenomenological criticism

(C) Formalistic criticism

(D) New historicism

 

29. Which of the following is not influenced by Freud’s Psychology ?

(A) The psychoanalytic criticism

(B) Surrealism

(C) New criticism

(D) Stream-of-consciousness school

 

30. Gulliver’s Travels is :

(A) a glamorous children’s adventure story and a pungent critique of humanity

(B) a satirical novel about foreign countries

(C) a novel about colonialism

(D) an autobiographical novel

 

31. ‘‘True wit is Nature to advantage dressed/What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed.’’ Identify the poet of these lines :

(A) William Shakespeare

(B) John Dryden

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) Samuel Johnson

 

32. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism discusses the merits and limitations of :

(A) the 18th century school of poetry

(B) the 18th century school of criticism

(C) the 18th century school of drama

(D) the 18th century school of prose

 

33. Whose name is associated with The Spectator ?

(A) Joseph Addison

(B) Charles Lamb

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) Samuel Johnson

 

34. In his renowned Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray pays tribute to :

(A) the soldiers of England

(B) the gentry of England

(C) the common villagers of England

(D) the famous writers of England

 

35. Goldsmith’s 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

 

36. From among the following characters of Jane Austen, identify the one who stands out as a being

different from others :

(A) Frank Churchill

(B) Wickham

(C) Willoughby

(D) Edmund Bertram

 

37. Who wrote the following lines ?

‘‘To see a world in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.’’

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) William Blake

(C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(D) Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

38. Identify the novel which has multiple narrators :

(A) Wuthering Heights

(B) Jane Eyre

(C) Vanity Fair

(D) David Copperfield

 

39. The literary term ‘negative capability’ is associated with :

(A) Wordsworth

(B) Byron

(C) Shelley

(D) Keats

 

40. Identify the critical work which is in the form of dialogues :

(A) Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesie

(B) Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets

(C) Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria

(D) Pope’s Essay on Criticism

 

41. A rubai is a stanza of :

(A) two lines

(B) three lines

(C) four lines

(D) five lines

 

42. ‘The Sick Rose’ is a poem by :

(A) Wordsworth

(B) Blake

(C) Coleridge

(D) Keats

 

43. Who was like a divine model to Browning in his early years ?

(A) Tennyson

(B) Wordsworth

(C) Shelley

(D) Blake

 

44. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Fitzgerald’s poetry ?

(A) Essentially pessimism

(B) Intellectualism

(C) Pathetic note

(D) Romanticism

 

45. Robert Browning can be described best as :

(A) A dramatic singer of love and life

(B) An authentic voice for drama and life

(C) A lover of drama and life

(D) A singer of dramatic love and life

 

46. Identify the poet who wrote the lines—‘‘The sea of Faith/Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore/Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl’d;’’

(A) Arthur Hugh Clough

(B) Elizabeth Browning

(C) Mathew Arnold

(D) Tennyson

 

47. There is an indictment of orphanages and of the London slums in Dickens’ :

(A) A Tale of Two Cities

(B) Our Mutual Friend

(C) Little Dorrit

(D) Oliver Twist

 

48. Multiple interconnected plots are found in George Eliot’s novel :

(A) Silas Marner

(B) Middlemarch

(C) The Radical

(D) The Mill on the Floss

 

49. Identify the author who does not belong to the stream of consciousness tradition :

(A) E.M. Forster

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) James Joyce

(D) Marcel Proust

 

50. Which of the following plays is entirely in prose ?

(A) A Family Reunion

(B) A Phoenix Too Frequent

(C) Justice

(D) The Only Jealousy of Emer

 

ANSWER KEY:

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