MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH Paper II-  AUG – 2015

 

1. Blake’s famous poem ‘The Tyger’ is remarkable for its portrayal of the feeling of :

(A) depression

(B) amazement

(C) skepticism

(D) anger and betrayal



2. Heathcliff is a character in .......

(A) Emma

(B) Jane Eyre

(C) Vanity Fair

(D) Wuthering Heights



3. Who wrote ‘Essays in Criticism’ ?

(A) Arnold

(B) Tennyson

(C) Pope

(D) Hazlitt



4. The concept of Negative Capability is attributed to ..........

(A) Coleridge

(B) Keats

(C) Shelley

(D) Wordsworth



5. Structuralist criticism is influenced by the ideas of :

(A) Sigmund Freud

(B) Ferdinand de Saussure

(C) Karl Marx

(D) T.S. Eliot



6. T.S. Eliot was born in :

(A) England

(B) United States

(C) New Zealand

(D) Canada



7. James Joyce’s Exiles is ............

(A) a novel

(B) an essay

(C) a play

(D) a poem



8. Which of the following pairs is not properly matched ?

(A) Hanif Kureishi : Buddha of Suburbia

(B) Michael Ondaatje : The English Patient

(C) Vikram Seth : A Suitable Boy

(D) Carol Ann Duffy : Dancing at Lughnasa



9. Who of the following is not an Eighteenth Century writer ?

(A) Ann Finch

(B) Elizabeth Thomas

(C) Elizabeth Tollett

(D) Carol Ann Duffy



10. The tragic flow of Hamlet is :

(A) indecision

(B) ambition

(C) vanity

(D) jealousy



11. Yeats’ ‘Easter, 1916’ is a poetic commentary on :

(A) Pagan culture

(B) Greek civilization

(C) Irish freedom struggle

(D) Roman civilization



12. The play Macbeth is set in :

(A) France

(B) Wales

(C) Scotland

(D) Ireland



13. D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow grapples with the dynamics of :

(A) man-woman relationship

(B) state oppression

(C) the relationship between man and God

(D) the aspirations of human soul



14. The Country Wife is a play written by ..............

(A) George Etherege

(B) Thomas Otway

(C) William Congreve

(D) William Wycherley



15. Prufrock is a character in a work by ............

(A) Shaw

(B) Terrence Rattigan

(C) T.S. Eliot

(D) J.B. Priestley



16. Who among the following was a ‘‘Transcendentalist’’ ?

(A) Emerson

(B) Hawthorne

(C) Dreiser

(D) Fitzgerald



17. Milton’s ‘‘On His Blindness’ is :

(A) an epic

(B) a mock-epic

(C) a sonnet

(D) an elegy



18. The title The Sound and The Fury is taken from .................

(A) Julius Caesar

(B) Hamlet

(C) Macbeth

(D) Othello



19. Alexander Pope had been attacked in verse by ...........

(A) Queen Caroline

(B) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

(C) Queen Anne

(D) Elizabeth Montagu



20. Encyclopaedia Britannica was a product of ...........

(A) British Enlightenment

(B) Spanish Enlightenment

(C) Scottish Enlightenment

(D) French Enlightenment



21. Sporus satirized by Alexander Pope in his ‘An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot’ in real life was ..........

(A) Sir Robert Walpole

(B) King William-III

(C) King George II

(D) John Lord Hervey



22. According to Aristotle, the soul of a tragedy is :

(A) music

(B) character

(C) chorus

(D) plot



23. Who is the author of The Colour Purple ?

(A) Alice Walker

(B) Margaret Laurence

(C) Margaret Atwood

(D) Fay Weldon



24. Epithalamion is a ...............

(A) love song

(B) narrative poem

(C) nuptial poem

(D) mourning song



25. Jane Austen’s first novel was ...............

(A) Sense and Sensibility

(B) Emma

(C) Mansfield Park

(D) Pride and Prejudice



26. The book Seven Types of Ambiguity is authored by :

(A) John Crowe Ransom

(B) William Empson

(C) Cleanth Brooks

(D) Allen Tale



27. Which is Shelley’s autobiographical poem ?

(A) Alaster

(B) Adonais

(C) Queen Mab

(D) The Cenci



28. The oft-quoted line, ‘‘Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain’’ appears in ..........

(A) Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities

(B) Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge

(C) D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow

(D) Joyce’s Dublimers



29. The term, ‘Pathetic fallacy’ was coined by ............

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) John Ruskin

(C) G.M. Hopkins

(D) Matthew Arnold



30. ‘Ethnology’ is a systematic and organized record of .............

(A) animal behaviour

(B) human cultures

(C) plant conditions

(D) universal ethics



31. Structuralism is an intellectual movement which began in ................

(A) Italy

(B) England

(C) Rome

(D) France



32. For the deconstructionists, meaning results from .............

(A) The interplay of words used and not used

(B) The interplay of words used

(C) The interplay of words not used

(D) The free play of words used



33. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a fine example of a .................

(A) Regional novel

(B) Campus novel

(C) Religious novel

(D) Terror-Mystery novel



34. Le Morte d’Arthur is a poem by ............

(A) Thomas Malory

(B) Thomas Edison

(C) Thomas More

(D) Thomas King



35. Bacon’s New Atlantis is ..........

(A) a prose romance

(B) a satire

(C) a utopia

(D) a ballad



36. Gaveston is a character in ................

(A) Dr. Faustus

(B) Edward II

(C) Richard II

(D) King John



37. The Faerie Queene contains .............. books.

(A) 5

(B) 8

(C) 7

(D) 11



38. Who wrote ‘‘To err is human, to forgive divine’’ ?

(A) Bacon

(B) Lamb

(C) Addison

(D) Pope



39. Northrop Frye is associated with :

(A) Myth Criticism

(B) Gender Discourse

(C) New Criticism

(D) Structuralism



40. Which of the following is not a Canadian dramatist ?

(A) Beverly Simons

(B) Carol Bolt

(C) Sharon Pollock

(D) Samuel Selvon



41. The essay ‘‘Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist’’ is written by :

(A) Salman Rushdie

(B) C.D. Narasimhaiah

(C) A.C. Ward

(D) Bruce King



42. Burgess is a character in the following play :

(A) Major Barbara

(B) Candida

(C) Arms and the Man

(D) Pygmalion



43. Northanger Abbey is authored by :

(A) Jane Austen

(B) George Eliot

(C) Charles Dickens

(D) D.H. Lawrence



44. Which of the following statements is not true about W.M. Thackeray ?

(A) Thackeray was born in 1811

(B) Thackeray’s finest art is shown in his pictures of rogues

(C) Thackeray was no cynic, though he has often been termed one

(D) Jonathan Wild has been written by W.M. Thackeray



45. The Victorian Age in Literature is wirtten by :

(A) G.K. Chesterton

(B) E.V. Lucas

(C) A.G. Gardiner

(D) Matthew Arnold



46. The term ‘rhetoric’ was originally concerned with the skills of :

(A) Effective acting

(B) Public speaking

(C) Production of artistic objects

(D) Writing literature



47. ‘Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep’. The dominant metrical pattern in this line is :

(A) iambic

(B) dactylic

(C) trochaic

(D) anapaestic



48. ‘Two heads are better than one’ is an example of :

(A) synecdoche

(B) transferred epithet

(C) onomatopoeia

(D) oxymoron



49. ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?’ is an example of :

(A) a polarity question

(B) an alternative question

(C) a rhetorical question

(D) an echo question



50. ‘O Hamlet ! thou has cleft my heart in twain’ is an example of :

(A) antithesis

(B) euphemism

(C) hyperbole

(D) personification