MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH Paper III– DEC 2013

 

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate alternatives to answer the questions given below it :

The story of my famous family is a story of genius and its consequences, I suppose, and I am uniquely and particularly suited to tell the story, since genius avoided me ..................... and I, it. I remain an ordinary man, if there is such a thing, calm in all weathers, aware of event but uninterested and generally incapable of deciphering implication.

 

1. The narrator thinks that he is the proper person to tell the story because :

(A) he belongs to the family

(B) the family is famous

(C) the family is highly talented and intelligent

(D) he is not highly talented and intelligent

 

2. ‘................. and I, it’ means that :

(A) genius avoided the narrator

(B) the narrator chose not to be a genius

(C) he and it are suited to tell the story

(D) genius avoided me, him and it

 

3. An ordinary man is incapable of deciphering implication. This means that :

(A) he works out what is suggested

(B) he cannot work out what is suggested

(C) he is able to predict future events

(D) he implies that he is unable to understand things

 

4. The narrator :

(A) believes that there are ordinary men

(B) accepts for the time being that there are ordinary men

(C) thinks that there are only extraordinary men

(D) assumes that men are ordinary

 

5. The tone of the passage is :

(A) serious

(B) humorous

(C) aggressive

(D) satirical

 

6. Psychoanalytical theories :

(A) tend to emphasize historicity

(B) suggest that human nature is universal

(C) are totally unconcerned with the relationship between history and human nature

(D) believe that although human nature depends upon family ties and the nature of the family, it

has nothing to do with political and economic change

 

7. The Renaissance held more aloof from .............................. in England than in Italy or even in France.

(A) Music

(B) Plastic Arts

(C) Architecture

(D) Historical writing

 

8. Ethnic issues cannot be raised in Shakespeare’s :

(A) The Merchant of Venice

(B) Othello

(C) The Tempest

(D) Hamlet

 

9. The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare’s :

(A) Early comedy

(B) Mature comedy

(C) Tragi-comedy

(D) Romance

 

10. Identify the source of these lines :

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ?

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.”

(A) Troilus and Cressida

(B) Dr. Fanstus

(C) Tamberlaine

(D) Sejanus

 

11. Francis Bacon was influenced by :

(A) Aristotle

(B) Machiavelli

(C) Plato

(D) Erasmus

 

12. The hero of Milton’s Paradise Regained is :

(A) Satan

(B) God

(C) Christ

(D) Adam

 

13. Dryden’s All for Love is an adaptation of :

(A) Webster’s The White Devil

(B) Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi

(C) Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida

(D) Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

 

14. Dr. Johnson used the term ‘metaphysical’ to refer to :

(A) religious themes in poetry

(B) the concerns with spiritual matters in poetry

(C) the poet’s ability to yoke ideas in unprecedented manner

(D) advocating for the material aspects of life in poetry.

 

15. The Restoration brought the major drift towards .......................... interests in the social and literary world.

(A) Religious

(B) Cultural

(C) Political

(D) Civic and national

 

16. The Tatler was started by :

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Sir Richard Steele

(D) Daniel Defoe

 

17. Mrs. Malaprop is a character immortalized by :

(A) William Congreve

(B) John Dryden

(C) Oliver Goldsmith

(D) Richard Sheridan

 

18. The following works of Defoe can be chronologically arranged as :

(A) Robinson Crusoe — Captain Singleton — Colonel Jacque — Moll Flanders

(B) Robinson Crusoe — Captain Singleton — Moll Flanders — Colonel Jacque

(C) Robinson Crusoe — Moll Flanders — Captain Singleton — Colonel Jacque

(D) Robinson Crusoe — Moll Flanders — Colonel Jacque — Captain Singleton

 

19. Whose satire is primarily founded on his cynicism ?

(A) Wycherley

(B) Congreve

(C) Etheredge

(D) Dryden

 

20. Who shows his genius for recreating the past ?

(A) Sir Walter Scott

(B) P.B. Shelley

(C) Thomas Moore

(D) Thomas Campbell

 

21. Who proclaimed the doctrine of utility ?

(A) William Hazlitt

(B) Jeremy Bentham

(C) Adam Smith

(D) William Godwin

 

22. Identify the author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater :

(A) William Hazlitt

(B) Thomas de Quincey

(C) S.T. Coleridge

(D) Charles Lamb

 

23. Identify the poet who has written many “Visionary” poems :

(A) S.T. Coleridge

(B) Robert Southey

(C) Lord Byron

(D) Robert Burns

 

24. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen challenges the conventional class distinctions by showing that :

(A) Mr. Gardiner, though a trader, is a perfect gentleman

(B) Wickham, the son of a steward, has better manners than Darcy, the aristocrat

(C) Caroline Bingley is to be condemned for looking down upon Mrs. Bennet

(D) The gentry do not have to work for a living

 

25. Which of the following is not characteristic of Arnold’s poetry ?

(A) Suavity

(B) Wistfulness

(C) Serenity

(D) Strong passion

 

26. Which of the following characteristics best describes Thackeray ?

(A) High moralism

(B) Clear-sighted realism

(C) Weak narration

(D) Strong propaganda

 

27. In which novel of his, Fielding reverses the situation in Richardson’s Pamela ?

(A) Joseph Andrews

(B) Jonathan Wild

(C) Tom Jones

(D) Amelia

 

28. The character of Rochester occurs in the novel :

(A) Wuthering Heights

(B) Jane Eyre

(C) Agnes Grey

(D) Shirley

 

29. Match ‘A’ with ‘B’ :

 ‘A’                         ---------                 ‘B’

(1) Ivanhoe                        (a) Henry Mackenzie

(2) The Man of                  (b) Sir Walter Scott Feeling

(3) The Vicar of                 (c) Samuel Johnson Wakefield

(4) Rasselas                       (d) Oliver Goldsmith

Codes :

(A) (1)–(b), (2)–(a), (3)–(d), (4)–(c)

(B) (1)–(a), (2)–(c), (3)–(b), (4)–(d)

(C) (1)–(b), (2)–(d), (3)–(a), (4)–(c)

(D) (1)–(d), (2)–(a), (3)–(b), (4)–(c)

 

30. Who among the following was not associated with the revival of the verse drama ?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) W.H. Auden

(C) J.B. Priestley

(D) Christopher Isherwood

 

31. Who remarkably changed the literary taste after the 1st World War ?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) W.B. Yeats

(C) Louis MacNiece

(D) Stephen Spender

 

32. One of the following anthologies by Yeats is recognized as a turning point in the poet’s attempt to

modernize his poetry ?

(A) Michael Robartes and The Dancer

(B) The Tower

(C) Responsibilities

(D) The Wild Swans at Coole

 

33. The following plays of Bernard Shaw are satires on social attitudes towards sex relations :

(A) Back to Methuselah, Major Barbara

(B) Androcles and the Lion, Arms and the Man

(C) Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man and Superman

(D) The Devil’s Disciple, The Man of Destiny

 

34. Conrad’s method of putting together materials from the point of view of several persons :

(A) is similar to Impressionism in Painting

(B) means a lot of unnecessary repetition

(C) creates contradictory versions of truth

(D) prevents us from arriving at objective truth

 

35. Molier’s Alceste is engaged in :

(A) only a hopeless love affair

(B) a potential duel

(C) a court case

(D) love affair, duel and court case

 

36. Ralph is a character in :

(A) The Lord of the Flies

(B) Clockwork Orange

(C) The Enchanter’s Net

(D) The Paperman

 

37. Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’ is a poem which depicts :

(A) Her incestuous love for her father

(B) Her Nazi tendencies

(C) Her hatred towards her father

(D) Her jealousy of her mother

 

38. James Joyce in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man shows the development of Stephen as a :

(A) Sensitive young man

(B) Conformist

(C) Revolutionary

(D) Army recruit

 

39. Which author from the following discusses sexual deviations freely ?

(A) C.P. Snow

(B) John Wain

(C) Irish Murdoch

(D) Laurence Durrell

 

40. In Orwell’s 1984, surveillance is not performed through :

(A) Police

(B) Telescreen

(C) Tape-recorders

(D) Mind-reading

 

41. Neo-classicism developed the notion of :

(A) Reflection

(B) Resemblance

(C) Verisimilitude

(D) Mimesis

 

42. T.S. Eliot’s criticism provides :

(A) a new theory of literature

(B) a reinterpretation of certain writers such as Dante, Donne and Dryden

(C) a justification for imagery and symbolism

(D) a new assessment of classicism and romanticism

 

43. Plato and Aristotle considered :

(A) the end of tragedy in different ways

(B) the nature of tragedy in similar ways

(C) the soul of tragedy in similar ways

(D) tragic hero and his fate

 

44. Canons of literature was one of the major concerns of :

(A) modernism

(B) post-modernism

(C) feminism

(D) black literature

 

45. Coleridge makes distinction between :

(A) imagination and fancy

(B) creative and critical faculty

(C) literal and figurative

(D) organic and mechanical

 

46. Multiculturalism is a concept in :

(A) Modernism

(B) Post-modernism

(C) Feminism

(D) Structuralism

 

47. The notion of difference was developed by :

(A) Michele Foucault

(B) Roland Barthes

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Paul de Man

 

48. Carnivalesque and polyphony were important concepts in :

(A) Dialogism

(B) Structuralism

(C) Reception theory

(D) Feminism

 

49. Issues like patriarchal structure of society, gender discrimination and the structure of human language

are raised by :

(A) Marxist criticism

(B) Feminist criticism

(C) Archetypal criticism

(D) Formalism

 

50. Historical and cultural conditions of the production of literary texts are studied by :

(A) New criticism

(B) Deconstruction

(C) New historicism

(D) Psychoanalytic criticism

 

51. “Modern English has become an analytical language.” This means that there are fewer .......................... in Modern English than its earlier forms.

(A) Vowel sounds

(B) Cases

(C) Inflexions

(D) Tenses

 

52. ESP is an acronym for English for .............................. purposes.

(A) selected

(B) social

(C) specific

(D) study

 

53. In a mechanical drill,

(A) the item has to be repeated at least 10 times.

(B) comprehension of the item is not necessary

(C) the class needs to repeat the item in a chorus

(D) audio-visual aids are used for practice

 

54. In a multilingual society :

(A) a single language is used on all occasions

(B) different languages are used depending on the types of functions

(C) each language is used for different functions

(D) the choice of a language for a particular function is made by an individual

 

55. Error analysis and interlanguage are notions related to :

(A) the interference of the first language in second language learning

(B) wrong learning strategies

(C) the errors made in using the first language

(D) the lack of linguistic competence

 

56. The central message of Goethe’s Faust is :

(A) He who strives is never lost

(B) One must be punished for adultery

(C) Worldly pleasures are worthless

(D) One should not give into sensual and material temptations

 

57. Petrarch addressed his sonnets to :

(A) Beatrice

(B) Laura

(C) Mary Fitton

(D) Elizabeth Boyle

 

58. Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard deals with :

(A) the rise of the working class

(B) the decline of the Feudal order

(C) the need to emancipate serfs

(D) Love triangles

 

59. We associate the term ‘audience alienation’ with :

(A) Bertolt Brecht

(B) Luigi Pirandello

(C) August Strindberg

(D) Samuel Beckett

 

60. In Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Emma falls in love with :

(A) Homais

(B) Binet

(C) Rodolphe

(D) Justin

 

61. The sea-sky dichotomy in Where Shall We Go This Summer refers to the dialectics of :

(A) being and becoming

(B) this world and the other world

(C) the self and the other

(D) man and woman

 

62. Meghnath Vadham Kavyam by Michael Madhusudan Dutt :

(A) Sings of the adventures of Rama

(B) Sings of the weaknesses of Meghnath

(C) Subverts the character of Rama

(D) Questions Meghnath’s loyalty towards Ravana

 

63. Who among the following has used Indian philosophy extensively in his novels ?

(A) Mulk Raj Anand

(B) R.K. Narayan

(C) Raja Rao

(D) Bhabani Bhattacharya

 

64. Jugga disrupts the plan of killing of Muslims travelling to Pakistan by train because :

(A) his beloved Nooran was travelling in the train

(B) he was secular-minded

(C) he did not believe in retaliation

(D) he was a follower of Gandhi and his non-violence

 

65. Raja Rao’s Comrade Kirillov deals with :

(A) the rise of the communist movement in India

(B) the life of a Russian philanthropist

(C) split personality of an individual

(D) the friendship between India and Russia

 

66. Chinua Achebe writes about the community called :

(A) Maori

(B) Niger

(C) Igbo

(D) Ibo

 

67. Naipaul’s Mohan Biswas stands for the .................................. generation of Indians in West Indies.

(A) first

(B) second

(C) third

(D) contemporary

 

68. The House of Seven Gables is written by :

(A) Nathaniel Hawthorne

(B) Edgar Allan Poe

(C) Henry James

(D) Theodore Winthrop

 

69. The Scarlet Letter is set in :

(A) the mid 17th century

(B) the early 18th century

(C) the mid 18th century

(D) the late 18th century

 

70. A strong influence of Chinese and Japanese thought and culture is seen in the poems of :

(A) Wallace Stevens

(B) Ezra Pound

(C) William Carlos Williams

(D) Hart Crane

 

71. For Sanssure ‘sign’ is :

(A) Form and image and the arbitrariness of the relation between the two

(B) Form with a logical relation to its meaning

(C) A symbol used in language

(D) A word with a stable form and changing meaning

 

72. New Historicism is a literary method mostly used by :

(A) Adorno

(B) Stephen Greenblatt

(C) Gramsci

(D) F.R. Leavis

 

73. I.A. Richards valued literature for :

(A) Satisfying impulses of human beings

(B) Giving us a cathartic experience

(C) Being imaginative

(D) Being instructive

 

74. Literariness, foregrounding and defamiliarization are some important critical concepts used by :

(A) New critics

(B) Russian formalists

(C) Moralist critics

(D) Structuralist critics

 

75. ‘Literature gives a conesthetic or synaesthetic experience’ is an argument of :

(A) F.R. Leavis

(B) I.A. Richards

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Northrop Frye