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

SET-A

 

Instructions (For Q. Nos. 1 to 5): Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate alternatives to answer the questions given below it:

Does the road wind up-hill all the way ?

Yes, to the very end.

Will the days journey take the whole long day?

From morn to night, my friend.

But is there for the night a resting-place ?

A roof for when the slow, dark hours begin.

May not the darkness hide it from my face ?

You cannot miss that inn.

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night ?

Those who have gone before.

Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?

They will not keep you standing at that door.

Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak ?

Of labour you shall find the sum.

Will there be beds for me and all who seek ?

Yea, beds for all who come.

 

1. The poem consists of a dialogue between a weary traveller and …………..

(A) a travel agent

(B) another traveller

(C) God

(D) an unknown guide

 

2. The rhyme scheme of the third stanza is:

(A) bcab

(B) aabb

(C) abab

(D) abba

 

3. The poem has an …………. significance.

(A) Allegorical

(B) Amorphous

(C) Aphoristic

(D) Evocative

 

4. What, according to the poet, is man’s eternal destination

(A) The climb

(B) Heaven

(C) The summit

(D) The journey

 

5. The poem ends on :

(А) a sarcastic note

(B) a pessimistic note

(C) an indifferent note

(D) an optimistic note

 

6. Thackeray's Henry Esmond is considered a ………………

(A) romantic novel

(B) historical novel

(C) picaresque novel

(D) detective novel

 

7. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby deals with the sad conditions of ………

(A) industries

(B) slums

(C) boarding schools

(D) working places

 

8. Which of the following pairs is incorrect?

(A) Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto

(B) Goldsmith -  The Deserted Village

(C) Sheridan- The Old English Baron

(D) Henry Macenzie - The Man of Fouling

 

9. Who is not a Georgian Poet?

(A) A E Housman

(B) Henry Constable

(C) W H Davies

(D) Walter De La Mare

 

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

(A) James Boswell- Life of Samuel Johnson

(B) William Blake -Songs of Innocence

(C) S Richardson- Roderick Random

(D) T Smollett- Peregrine Pickle

 

11. The fictional work entitled Eupheus is associated with ……….

(A) Sir Philip Sidney

(B) Edmond Spencer

(C) John Donne

(D) John Lyly

 

12. ……………… is the author of Ivanohoe.

(A) George Eliot

(B) Walter Scott

(C) Thomas Hardy

(D) Goldsmith

 

13. The famous character of Greene, 'The Whisky Priest' appears

(A) The Heart of the Matter

(B) The End of the Affair

(C) The Power and the Glory

(D) The Man Within

 

14. The title of Achebe's famous novel Things Fall Apart is taken from:

(A) The Second Coming

(B) The Waste Land

(C) Prelude

(D) Byzantium

 

15. "Thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his sensibility." Who said it?

(A) F.R. Leavis

(B) T.S. Eliot

(C) Samuel Johnson

(D) Charles Lamb

 

16. The Rise of the Novel is written by:

(A) Ian Watt

(B) E.M. Forster

(C) G. Wilson Knight

(D) A.C. Bradley

 

17. The method of 'close reading' of the text was advocated by:

(A) Raymond Williams

(B) T.S. Eliot

(C) LA. Richards

(D) E.V. Lucas

 

18. "The best all lack conviction, while the worst.

Are full of passionate intensity."

These famous lines appear in the poem:

(A) Leda and the Swan

(B) The Second Coming

(C) Easter, 1916

(D) A Dialogue of Self and Soul

 

19. called Hamlet an artistic failure.

(A) LA. Richards

(B) T.S. Eliot

(C) F.R. Leavis

(D) C.B. Cox

 

20. Jim Corbett's 'Robin' is about

(A) tiger

(B) cat

(C) dog

(D) leopard

 

21. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in:

(A) 1913

(B) 1923

(C) 1912

(D) 1920

 

22. A.C. Bradley is the famous author of the book titled:

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Shakespearan Comedy

(C) Shakespearan Tragedy

(D) Greek Tragedy

 

23. The signifcant feature of Shakespeare's The Tempest is the playwright's use of:

(A) Magic and supernaturalism

(B) Satire

(C) Gender-switching

(D) Violence on stage

 

24. Autobiography by: was written

(A) Adam Smith

(B) John Henry Newman

(C) John Stuart Mill

(D) Herbert Spencer

 

25. Benjy is a character from............

(A) The Golden Bowl

(B) The Scarlet Letter

(C) The Sound and the Fury

(D) Thir Side of Paradise

 

26. Who wrote Court Poems by a Lady of Quality?

(A) Elizabeth Montagu

(B) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

(C) Queen Caroline

(D) Queen Anne

 

27. The writer of The Man of Feeling 1771 in:

(A) Charlotte Lennox

(B) Horace Walpole

(C) Henry Mackenzie

(D) Mathew G. Lewis

 

28. The story of Hetty and the murder of her child find their portrayals in George Eliot's...........

(A) Adam Bede

(B) Silas Marner

(C) The Mill on the Floss

(D) Middle March

 

29. A text in which hidden or repressed meaning can be found between the lines is called a

(A) parabolic text

(B) palimpsest text

(Ca para language text

(D) sub-text

 

30. A key text in post-structuralism is Derrida's book

(A) The Critical Difference

(B) Of Grammatology

(C) Seven Types of Ambiguity

(D) The Well-wrought Urn

 

31. An intrinsive narrator' is one

(A) Who breaks into the narrative to comment upon a character event or situation

(B) Who distances himself from the narrative and views everything objectively

(C) Who breaks away in the middle. of narration

(D) Who is the main farrator

 

32. Derrida's 'differance' means

(A) differing and referring

(B) deferring and referring

(C) referring and representing

(D) differing and deferring

 

33. Biographio Literaria in

(A) a collection of biographies

(B) a critical work

(C) an autobiography

(D) a biography

 

34. For whom is the 'unconscious' structured like a language ?

(A) Lacan

(B) Freud

(C) Jung

(D) Adler

 

35. T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature in

(A) 1938

(B) 1948

(C) 1949

(D) 1943

 

36. Which of the following is not an example of utopia?

(A) Brave New World

(B) Looking Backward

(C) News from Nowhere

(D) Lost Horizon

 

37. The Old Testament was originally written in

(A) English

(B) Greek

(C) Spanish

(D) Hebrew

 

38. Butler's Hudibras attack on: is an

(A) Female sex

(B) Puritanism

(C) Aristocracy

(D) Male dominated society

 

39. Which of the following pairs is a mismatch from the point of view of author-work?

(A) Bapsi Sidhwa In the castle of My Skin

(B) V.S. Naipaul A House for Mr. Biswas

(C) Wilson Harris Palace of the Peacock

(D) J.P. Clark -Ozidi

 

40. Tis that from change to change their being rolls' is a line composed by:

(A) Wordsworth

(B) Coleridge

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Thomas Hardy

 

41. Which of the following pairs is mismatched ?

(A) Questioning note -Clough

(B) Pessimism -James Thomson

(C) Wistful Melancholy -Matthew Arnold

(D) Malapropism-Robert Browning

 

42. Which of the following statements is not correct?

(A) The Neo-Victorian amalgamates Victorian and Edwardian aesthetic sensibilities with modern principles and technology

(B) Pip is a character created by Charles Dickens

(C) In Memoriam is a requiem for the poet's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam

(D) 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' is an exposition of Browning's philosophy but in the mouth of A.L. Tennyson

 

43. Mrs. Pipchin is a character created by

(A) George Eliot

(B) Thomas Hardy

(C) John Donne

(D) Charles Dickens

 

44. Which of the following works is not written by Joe Orton?

(A) Entertaining Mr. Sloane

(B) The Ruffian on the Stair

(C) Chips with Everything

(D) The Erpingham Camp

 

45. The Townley plays are sometimes known as:

(A) Comedy of Humour

(B) Comedy of Manners

(C) Wakefield plays

(D) Christian plays

 

46. Who of the following does not figure in "The Spectator Club" ?

(A) Sir Roger de Coverly

(B) Andrew Freeport

(C) Captain Sentry

(D) Colonel Douglas

 

47. 'Heteroglossia' is a term coined by:

(A) Roman Jacobson

(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

(C) Mikhail Bakhtin

(D) Homi K. Bhabha

 

48. Who has said "Poetry is a speaking picture with the ends to teach and delight"?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Aristotle

(C) Sir Philip Sidney

(D) Horace

 

49. Which of the following is a mismatched pair:

(A) French -Paul Valery

(B) German -Chekhov

(C) Russian -Fyodor Dostoevsky

(D) Russian Leo Tolstoy

 

50. Who has framed charges against poetry in the light of social standards of morality ?

(A) Plato

(B) Aristotle

(C) LA. Richards

(D) Matthew Arnold

 

51. The Cry of the Children is authored by:

(A) Carlyle

(B) Ruskin Bond

(C) Elizabeth Barret

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

 

52. 'Skimmity-ride' has been shown in the following novel:

(A) The Mayor of Casterbridge

(B) The White Peacock

(C) Sons and Lovers

(D) Ulysses

 

53. Lucetta Templeman is a character in the following novel:

(A) Ulysses

(B) Sons and Lovers

(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge

(D) A Laodicean

 

54. It has been observed that after. learning irregular forms like went and saw, some students begin to learn regular past tense forms and produce goed and seed. This is called interference.

(A) retrograde

(B) retroactive

(C) regressive

(D) reductionist

 

55. The acronym ESP stands for:

(A) English Purposes for Secondary

(B) English for Sacred Furposes

(C) English for Social Purposes

(D) English for Special Purposes

 

56. Only the target language is used in the teaching. method of

(A) Situational

(B) Grammar-translation

(C), Functional

(D) Direct

 

57. The middle English period stretches from the beginning of the century up to the middle of the 15th century.

(A) 10th

(B) 13th

(C) 9th

(D) 12th

 

58. motivation refers to wanting to learn a language in order to communicate with people of another culture speaking it.

(A) instrumental

(B) intensive

(C) implementational

(D) integrative

 

59. Which of the following novels contains constant parallels to Homer's Odyssey ?

(A) The First Man in the Moon

(B) Forsyte Saga

(C) Ulysses

(D) Point Counterpoint

 

60. The Jindyworobak movement was started by:

(A) Rex Ingamells

(B) David Martin

(C) Yasmine Gonneratne

(D) Satendra Nandan

 

61. Eca de Queiroz is the author of:

(A) The Crime of Father Amaro

(B) Chronicle of Guinea

(C) The Panorama

(D) The Book of Aesop

 

62. The epic verse of Homer's Odyssey is in

(A) Pentameter

(B) Hexameter

(C) Heptameter

(D) Tetrameter

 

63. In his comedy entitled The Clouds. ancient Greek author Aristophanes pokes fun at...........

(A) Socrates

(B) Plato

(C) Aristotle

(D) Epictetus

 

64. Ghashiram Kotwal is authored by

(A) Mahesh Dattani

(B) Vijay Tendulkar

(C) Satish Alekar

(D) Girish Karnad

 

65. Which Indian poet is hailed as the Nightingale of India?

(A) Kamala Markandeya

(B) Toru Dutt

(C) Sarojini Naidu

(D) Mahashweta Devi

 

66. R.K. Narayan's debut novel is:

(A) The Guide

(B) Malgudi Days

(C) Swami and Friends

(D) The Financial Expert

 

67. coined the term, Chutnification'.

(A) Arundhati Roy

(B) Vikram Seth

(C) Salman Rushdie

(D) Amitav Ghosh

 

68. Aravind Adiga is the author of:

(A) The Shame

(B) Passage to India

(C) The White Tiger

(D) Two States

 

69. Who among the following American writers is known for antagonising traditional minded jews ?

(A) John Updike

(B) John Barth

(C) Philip Roth

(D) Ralph Ellison

 

70. Which of the following does not figure in the original Augustan age, under the Roman Emperor Augustus (27 BC-AD 14)?

(A) Virgil

(B) Horace

(C) Plato

(D) Ovid

 

71. Who among the following does not belong to the school of New Criticism?

(A) John Crowe Ransom

(B) Fredric Jameson

(C) Cleanth Brooks

(D) Allen Tate

 

72. The term "Culture Industry' is coined by:

(A) F.R. Leavis

(B). Theodore Adorno

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Raymond Williams

 

73. For the structuralists, Naturali-zation' means

(A) overcoming the artificiality of the literary text

(B) adding to the artificiality of the literary text

(C) ignoring the reality of the literary text

(D) overcoming the naturalness of the literary text

 

74. The term Bildungsroman stands for:

(A) Novel of growth

(B) Roman buildings

(C) Roman philosophy

(D) Philosophical novel

 

75. Post-structuralists believe that is necessarily built into language.

(A) transparency

(B). lucidity

(C) instability

(D) authenticity

ANSWER KEY

MAHARASHTRA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - 29TH MAY, 2016

ANSWER KEY UPDATED AFTER EVALUATION OF GRIEVANCES FOR PAPER - III 

SUBJECT: ENGLISH (SET A) (SUBJECT CODE 03)  

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