MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH 2016- PAPER-II (HELD ON 29th May 2016)

SET-A

 

1. Simone de Beauvoir is the pioneer of:

(A) feminism

(B) structuralism

(C) poststructuralism

(D) phenomenology

 

2. George Eliot was the pen name of ……………

(A) Mary Isaac

(B) Mary Ann Evans

(C) Anne Bronte

(D) Evans Ann

 

3. Which of the following novels is not written by E.M. Forster?

(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread

(B) The Longest Journey

(C) The Room With a View

(D) Lord Jim

 

4. Who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson?

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) William Hazlitt

(C) James Boswell

(D) Oscar Wilde

 

5. Who among the following is not a British writer ?

(A) D.H. Lawrence

(B) E.M. Forster

(C) Thomas Hardy

(D) Ernest Hemingway

 

6. ……………… is the only play where Shakespeare follows the classical three unities of time, place and action.

(A) The Tempest

(B) Midsummer Night's Dream

(C) Romeo and Juliet

(D) King Lear

 

7. The term 'objective correlative' is associated with:

(A) Shelley

(B) Arnold

(C) Pope

(D) T.S. Eliot

 

8. Who is the movement poet among the following?

(A) Shelley

(B) Yeats

(C) Larkiń

(D) Hopkins

9. Coleridge draws a distinction between Imagination and …….

(A) Reason

(B) Fancy

(C) Inspiration

(D) Intellect

 

10. Robert Browning is famous for his:

(A) ballads

(B) dramatic monologues

(C) odes

(D) elegies

 

11. Who wrote Wuthering Heights?

(A) Emile Bronte

(B) Charlotte Bronte

(C) Anne Bronte

(D) Jane Austen

 

12. The meaning of hamartia is:

(A) chorus

(B) imitation

(C) error in judgement

(D) purgation

 

13. The line "Busie old foole, unruly sunne" is written by:

(A) Donne

(B) Marvell

(C) Herbert

(D) Quarles

 

16. The poem "Passage to India" is written by:

(A) Robert Frost

(B) Emily Dickinson

(C) E.M. Forster

(D) Walt Whitman

 

14. The author of Christ's Victory and Triumph is:

(A) Phineas Fletcher

(B) Giles Fletcher

(C) William Browne

(D) Joseph Beaumont

 

15. The line "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" appears in:

(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls

(B) The Old Man and the Sea

(C) The Snows of Kilimanjaro

(D) The Sun Also Rises

 

17. Samuel Pepys is chiefly known as a:

(A) Diarist

(B) Novelist

(C) Playwright

(D) Poet

 

18. One of the following novelists is called the poet laureate of market economy. Who is he ?

(A) Samuel Richardson

(B) Henry Fielding

(C) Laurence Sterne

(D) Daniel Defoe

 

19. Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy was first published in:

(A) 1668

(B) 1582

(C) 1764

(D) 1821

 

20. Kubla Khan' is written by:

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(C) John Keats

(D) P.B. Shelley

 

21. Wagner is a character in:

(A) The Duchess of Malfi

(B) Doctor Faustus

(C) Every Man in His Humour

(D) The Jew of Malta

 

22. He is the perfect representative of what the age was trying to be, the man who move than anybody else helped society to go the way it wanted to go' is an observation about Joseph Addison's life and works by

(A) Northrop Frye

(B) W.K. Wimsatt

(C) I. A. Richards

(D) Bonamy Dabrée

 

23. "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time."

These famous opening lines are from:

(A) Ode to Autumn

(B) Ode to a Nightingale

(C) Ode on a Grecian Urn

(D) The Prelude

 

24. The Mill on the Floss is a tragic story of

(A) two brothers

(B) a brother and a sister

(C) two sisters

(D) a husband and a wife

 

25. The Mistakes of the Night is the subtitle of the play

(A) The Rival

(B) The Comedy of Errors

(C) She Stoops to Conquer

(D) The Merry Wives of Windsor

 

26. Heathcliff is a character in .............

(A) Emma

(B) Jane Eyre

(C) Vanity Fair

(D) Wuthering Heights

 

27. "Thus conscience does make cowards of all." This famous line is from:

(A) Macbeth

(B) Hamlet

(C) The Tempest

(D) Othello

 

28. 'Cultural Studies' takes its outlook from

(A) Saussure

(B) Raymond Williams

(C) Julia Kriesteva

(D) Jameson

 

29. 'Intertextuality, is a term coined by

(A) Gayatri Spivak

(B) Julia Kriesteva

(C) Jacques Lacan

(D) Roland Barther

 

30. Practical Criticism was written by

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) S.T. Coleridge

(D) I.A. Richards

 

31. Saussure was a key figure in the modern revolutionary studies of ........

(A) language

(B) literature

(C) culture

(D) history

 

32. The most influential of Homi Bhabha's contributions to postcolonial theory is his notion

(A) Productivity

(B) Orientalism

(C) Hybridity

(D) Liminality

 

33. 'Mythos' in Aristotle's Poetics stands for

(A) Plot

(B) Diction

(C) Character

(D) Music

 

34. Logocentrism', a term ascribed to Derrida, refers to

(A) the nature of western thought, language and culture since Plato's era

(B) the nature of eastern thought, language and culture from ancient times

(C) the values of liberal humanism

(D) the values of Enlightenment

 

35. 'Structuralist Poetics' stresses

(A) linguistic competence

(B) literary competence

(C) critical competence

(D) ideological competence

 

36. For the New Critics, a poem is............

(A) a historical document

(B) a well-wrought urn

(C) an expression of author's personality

(D) a reflection of society

 

37. Out of 154 Sonnets, 126 of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed

(A) Dark Lady

(B) Mr. W.H.

(C) Queen Elizabeth

(D) Lady Penelope

 

38. The expression "Fair is Foul" occurs in

(A) The Alchemist

(B) The Malcontent

(C) Macbeth

(D) The Broken Heart

 

39. Everyman is an anonymous

(A) Elizabethan play

(B) Restoration comedy

(C) Heroic play

(D) Morality play

 

40. The term 'difference' has been coined by

(A) Sigmund Freud

(B) Jacques Lacan

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Deleuze and Guattari

 

41. The 'Confederation Poets' is a group of poets in:

(A) Australian Literature in English

(B) Pakistani Literature in English

(C) South Asian Literature

(D) Canadian Literature

 

42. In "Tradition and the Individual Talent Eliot presents his:

(A) Theory of Impersonality

(B) Theory of Prose

(C) Theory of Narrative

(D) Theory of Personality

 

43. George Lamming is:

(A) an Australian poet

(B) a Canadian poet

(C) a Caribbean author

(D) an African author

 

44. Donald Farfrae is a character in the following novel:

(A) Dubliners

(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge

(C) To the Lighthouse

(D) The Ages of God

 

45. Treatise on Human Nature is written by:

(A) Francis Bacon

(B) John Milton

(C) David Hume

(D) D.H. Lawrence

 

46. In Socrates' times rhetoric was condemned as:

(A) the mother of lies

(B) incomprehensible style

(C) cheating

(D) ornate style

 

47. 'I galloped, Dick galloped, we galloped all three' is an example of:

(A) synecdoche

(B) transferred epithet

(C) euphemism

(D) onomatopoeia

 

48. Full fathom five thy father lies' is an example of:

(A) Assonance

(B) Alliteration

(C) Enjambment

(D) Apostrophe

 

49. He shot down all my arguments' is an example of:

(A) Paradox

(B) Metaphor

(C) Personification

(D) Hyperbole

 

50. 'Breaking the silence of the seas'-this line has a metrical variation, because one of the feet is:

(A) anapaestic.

(B) trochaic

(C) dactyllic

(D) iambic

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