MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH Paper III-  AUG – 2015

 

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

 

The tiny fishing villages of Kerala on the southwest coast are among the most beautiful I have ever seen. Scalloped with sandy beaches, shaded by mop-headed coconut palms, studded with charming thatched cottages, launching the elegantly proportioned rowing boats, the Kerala villages contain a most exotic life for the tourist, the stranger, the passing traveller. A Gauguin world. They also contain quite another life of their own. Poverty of the degree one finds there is, perhaps, difficult for strangers to grasp. The Western idea of the Common Man is rather different from ours. For the fishermen and fisherwomen that populate the novel Chemmeen, natural forces are grimly real enemies or friends. It is far from a city view of life. The elements can destroy you and your family; they can also make it possible to live.....live for another year, that is. 

Under these merciless conditions, inevitably a merciless deity rules over life. To people brought up on the phrase “God is good”, it may not be easy to accept the Indian idea, “The Creator is also the Destroyer”. In Kerala villages that I have seen—where villagers who have only one cloth to wear—wash it in a river, canal or local pond, carefully, because they are in a public place, leaving half the cloth wrapped around the body while the other half is wet—the thought that anyone has a right to security and beneficence is less compelling than it is in the West.

 

1. The author is......................by the tiny villages of Kerala on the southwest coast.

(A) fascinated

(B) frustrated

(C) astonished

(D) enfeebled

 

2. ‘Scalloped with sandy beaches, shaded by mopheaded coconut palms, studded with charming thatched cottages’ is an example of :

(A) euphemism

(B) parallelism

(C) hyperbole

(D) free repetition

 

3. Life is not at all.................for the villagers of Kerala.

(A) modern

(B) respectable

(C) comfortable

(D) progressive

 

4. The author suggests that the idea of God is shaped by :

(A) Mythology

(B) Traditions

(C) Priests

(D) The conditions of life

 

5. The idea of......................is missing in the villages of Kerala unlike in the West.

(A) Public sanitation

(B) Public welfare

(C) Democracy

(D) Public enterprise

 

6. Which of the following pairs is incorrect ?

(A) Machiavelli : Il Principe

(B) Giovanni Boccaccio : The Decameron

(C) Baldassare Castiglione : Il Cor tegiano

(D) Thomas Sackville : New Arcadia

 

7. Which of the following statements is not correct ?

(A) Browning produced a number of plays in the Bells and Pomegranates series

(B) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics is authored by Robert Browning

(C) In a Gondola is a little lyric tragedy

(D) The Ring and the Book is written by Tennyson

 

8. Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ is set in............. .

(A) London

(B) Sydney

(C) Dublin

(D) New York

 

9. When a teacher makes changes in published texts to make them more suitable for a particular group of learners, this is called.................. .

(A) Adoption

(B) Paraphrase

(C) Adaptation

(D) Abridgement

 

10. The acronym ESP contrasts with :

(A) EBP

(B) EDP

(C) ELP

(D) EGP

 

11. English belongs to the..................... branch of the Indo-European language family.

(A) Celtic

(B) Germanic

(C) Balto-slavic

(D) Armenian

 

12. Britain established its first penal colony in Australia in the................ century.

(A) 19th

(B) 18th

(C) 16th

(D) 15^th

 

13. Behaviourism was used by................... to explain first language acquisition.

(A) Halliday

(B) Leech

(C) Chomsky

(D) Skinner

 

14. Jude the Obscure is Thomas Hardy’s :

(A) last novel

(B) first novel

(C) collection of poems

(D) collection of short stories

 

15. Which of the following pairs is incorrect ?

(A) The History of Emily  Montague : Frances Brooke

(B) Time Machine : H.G. Wells

(C) Cato : Joseph Addison

(D) The Crown of Wild Olive : W.H. Pater

 

16. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar; not to praise him.

These words are uttered by :

(A) Antony

(B) Brutus

(C) Cassius

(D) Horatio

 

17. The famous phrase “dissociation of sensibility” was coined by :

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) John Keats

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) P.B. Shelley

 

18. The British author who helped R.K. Narayan to publish his first novel is :

(A) William Golding

(B) E.M. Forster

(C) Graham Greene

(D) John Galsworthy

 

19. Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities deals with the :

(A) Russian Revolution

(B) French Revolution

(C) American Revolution

(D) Renaissance and Reformation

 

20. Matthew Arnold wrote :

(A) Culture and Anarchy

(B) Culture and Society

(C) Literature and Society

(D) French Revolution

 

21. Which Indian poet wrote the poem ‘Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher’ ?

(A) Nissim Ezekiel

(B) A.K. Ramanujan

(C) Jayant Mahapatra

(D) Kamala Das

 

22. ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was a phrase used by :

(A) William James

(B) W.K. Wimsatt

(C) Erich Auerbach

(D) Josephine Miles

 

23. The following novel has a section as ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ :

(A) Ulysses

(B) Stephen Hero

(C) Mrs. Dalloway

(D) A Room of One’s Own

 

24. Who of the following was not a Beat writer ?

(A) Allen Ginsberg

(B) James Joyce

(C) Gregory Corso

(D) Jack Kerouac

 

25. The lines; ‘I happy am,/Joy is my name.’/Sweet joy befall thee,’ are written by :

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) S.T. Coleridge

(C) William Blake

(D) John Keats

 

26. Which of the following is not an ‘Imagist’ poet ?

(A) T.E. Hulme

(B) H.D.

(C) J.G. Fletcher

(D) M. Drayton

 

27. Which of the following is not correct ?

(A) Senecan tragedy was written to be recited rather than acted

(B) Thomas Kyd has written The Spanish Tragedy

(C) Christopher Marlowe has written The Jew of Malta

(D) The Revenge Tragedy is a 20^th Century addition to tragedy

 

28. Who of the following was not associated with the ‘Transcendental Club’ ?

(A) R.W. Emerson

(B) Bronson Alcott

(C) Philip Roth

(D) Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

29. The title of the final section of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is :

(A) What the Thunder Said

(B) Death by Water

(C) The Fire Sermon

(D) The Burial of the Dead

30. The lines “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/But to be young was very  heaven,” are written by :

(A) Wordsworth

(B) Coleridge

(C) Keats

(D) Shelley

 

31. ‘Slum-landlordism’ is shown in the following play :

(A) Widower’s Houses

(B) Arms and the Man

(C) Candida

(D) The Doctor’s Dilemma

 

32. Which of the following is not a correct match ?

(A) Swift : The Tale of a Tab

(B) Pope : Essay on Man

(C) Pope : The Dunciad

(D) Donne : Life of Johnson

 

33. Millamant is a character in :

(A) The Country Wife

(B) The Plain Dealer

(C) The Way of the World

(D) Candida

 

34. German author Wolfgang Hohlbein is chiefly associated with :

(A) Science fiction

(B) Pop literature

(C) Migrant literature

(D) German-American literature

 

35. Which of the following is a mismatched pair ?

(A) Marquis de Sade : Justine (Sade)

(B) Voltaire : Candide, Zadig ou la Destinee

(C) Montesquieu : Persian Letters

(D) Emile Zola : La Petite Fadette

 

36. Hermann Hesse belonged to :

(A) Spain

(B) Portugal

(C) Germany

(D) Russia

 

37. Guy de Maupassant is the author of ............... .

(A) The Three Musketeers

(B) The Red and the Black

(C) The Hunchback of Notre Dame

(D) The Necklace

 

38. In Search of Lost Time is written by ................ .

(A) Emile Zola

(B) Marcel Proust

(C) André Gide

(D) Victor Hugo

 

39. The term ‘Carpe Diem’ means ............. .

(A) Praise of life in the country

(B) Description of idyllic nature

(C) Seize the day

(D) Going away from material things

 

40. Which of the following pairs is mismatched ?

(A) Franz Kafka : The Trial

(B) Franz Kafka : Metamorphosis

(C) Camus : The Myth of Sisyphus

(D) Samuel Beckett : Ubu Roi (Ubu the King)

 

41. Which of the following is not an example of ‘dystopia’ ?

(A) Brave New World

(B) New Atlantis

(C) 1984

(D) The Handmaid’s Tale

 

42. Praneshacharya is the protagonist of :

(A) Tale Danda

(B) Nagamandala

(C) Hayavadana

(D) Samskara

 

43. Keats in his ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ anlayses the issue of :

(A) the state of changelessness and permanence

(B) human weaknesses

(C) the relationship between man and nature

(D) man’s ability to transcend his limitations

 

44. For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,

Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor

So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed.”

In these lines from Milton’s ‘Lycidas’, the expression ‘day-star’ refers to the :

(A) King

(B) Prince

(C) Sun

(D) Mars

 

45. Celia in As You Like It is the daughter of :

(A) Jonathan

(B) Bill

(C) Antonio

(D) Fredrick

46. The line “The paths of glory lead but to the grave” occurs in :

(A) Lycidas

(B) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

(C) The Scholar Gypsy

(D) Burnt Norton

 

47. The principal character in Paradise Regained is :

(A) Adam

(B) David

(C) Christ

(D) Moses

 

48. The line “Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” occurs in :

(A) Hamlet

(B) The White Devil

(C) Arms and The Man

(D) Tamburlaine

 

49. Who wrote The Book of the Duchess ?

(A) Marlowe

(B) Chaucer

(C) Boccaccio

(D) Kyd

 

50. The white girl in The Hairy Ape is :

(A) Miss Nancy

(B) Miss Rebecca

(C) Miss Irene

(D) Miss Mildred

 

51. The novel The Ambassadors is written by :

(A) William Faulkner

(B) William Dean Howells

(C) Henry James

(D) Mark Twain

 

52. Eliza Haywood is the writer of ............

(A) Memoirs of Mrs. Sidney Biddulph

(B) The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy

(C) The Female Quixote

(D) Evelina

 

53. Matthew Prior’s Carmen Seculare (1700) is a eulogy to............. .

(A) King George II

(B) King William III

(C) King George I

(D) King Charles I

 

54. A kind of novel that appears to be an autobiography is called.......... .

(A) Metafiction

(B) Memoir novel

(C) Mock-heroic novel

(D) Picaresque novel

 

55. ...................is one of the known members of the Prague School.

(A) Rene Wellek

(B) Jacques Derrida

(C) Sigmund Freud

(D) Michel Foucault

 

56. Sigmund Freud suggested a three[1]part structural model of the psyche, dividing it into the ego, the super ego and.............. .

(A) The libido

(B) The id

(C) The eros

(D) The thanatos

 

57. Who proclaimed, “There is nothing outside the text” ?

(A) Lacan

(B) Foucault

(C) Derrida

(D) Barthes

 

58. Who among the following is not a modernist writer ?

(A) James Joyce

(B) Joseph Conrad

(C) Virginia Woolf

(D) Oscar Wilde

 

59. The term, New Historicism was coined by.................... .

(A) Derrida

(B) Foucault

(C) Raymond Williams

(D) Stephen Greenblatt

 

60. Spenser’s eighty sonnets in his Amoretti are addressed to................ .

(A) Elizabeth Boyle

(B) Penelope

(C) Laura

(D) Beatrice

 

61. For Wordsworth, poetry takes its origin from emotion recollected in :

(A) anxiety

(B) serenity

(C) instinct

(D) tranquillity

 

62. Bacon’s New Atlantis was influenced by.................. .

(A) Aristotle’s Poetics

(B) More’s Utopia

(C) Plato’s Republic

(D) Lyly’s Euphues

 

63. Wordsworth in his Preface defines a poet as a :

(A) Prophet of new age

(B) Visionary

(C) Man speaking to men

(D) Hero

 

64. Paterson’s Waltzing Matilda’ is a/an :

(A) Ode

(B) Ballad

(C) Sonnet

(D) Essay

 

65. F.R. Leavis considers........................... as the inaugurator of the great tradition of fiction in England.

(A) Jane Austen

(B) Charles Dickens

(C) Henry Fielding

(D) Daniel Defoe

 

66. Which of the following is not a ‘Partition Novel’ ?

(A) The Shadow Lines

(B) Looking Through Glass

(C) Ice Candy Man

(D) Brick Lane

 

67. The famous ‘toilet scene’ appears in :

(A) Romeo and Juliet

(B) All is Well that Ends Well

(C) Merry Wives of Windsor

(D) The Rape of the Lock

 

68. Which of the following statements is not true ?

(A) Rossetti delves in the folklore and diablerie of the middle ages

(B) Henry Constable is a minor Pre Raphaelite poet

(C) Morris busies himself in legends and sagas

(D) The Pre-Raphaelite movement is concerned primarily with neither democratic ideals nor with scientific and philosophical problems

 

69. Which of the following titles does not fall in the category of Paul Scott’s ‘Raj Quartet’ ?

(A) The Siege of Krishnapur

(B) The Jewel in the Crown

(C) The Day of the Scorpion

(D) The Towers of Silence

 

70. “Courage ! he said, and pointed toward the land.”

In this opening line of, Tennyson’s ‘Lotos Eaters’, ‘he’ refers to :

(A) The poet

(B) God

(C) Ulysses

(D) Achilles

 

71. Cardinal Newman is associated with :

(A) Oxford Movement

(B) Renaissance

(C) Reformation

(D) Postmodernism

 

72. De Bracy is a character in :

(A) Ivanhoe

(B) Rob Roy

(C) Middle March

(D) Pride and Prejudice

 

73. Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer are associated with :

(A) Gender Studies

(B) Third World Feminism

(C) Feminism

(D) Phenomenology

 

74. Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal was started in :

(A) The Caroline Age

(B) The Jacobean Age

(C) The Victorian Age

(D) The Postmodern Period

 

75. Walter Morel is a character in :

(A) Sons and Lovers

(B) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

(C) The Plumed Serpent

(D) Kangaroo