MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH -PAPER-II- APRIL 2017 (HELD ON 16.04.2017)

 SET-B

 

1. Which, among the following, is a campus novel?

(A) Hemlock and After

(B) Lucky Jim

(C) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

(D) Lord of the Flies

 

2. Who has written The Great Tradition?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) F.R. Leavis

(C) I.A. Richards

(D) Edmund Wilson

 

3. D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers may be designated as a:

(A) Historical novel

(B) Psychological novel

(C) Postmodern novel

(D) Picaresque novel

 

4. Which among the following is not a novel written by D.H. Lawrence?

(A) Women in Love

(B) The White Peacock

(C) The Rainbow

(D) To the Lighthouse

 

5. Who is the author of the book Darkness at Noon?

(A) Joseph Conrad

(B) Arthur Koestler

(C) V. S. Naipaul

(D) Bharati Mukherjee

 

6. The protagonist of the novel after whom The Mayor of Casterbridge is named:

(A) Mr. Smith

(B) Henchard

(C) Swithin

(D) John

 

7. Who is the author of In the Castle of My Skin?

(A) George Lamming

(B) Philip Roth

(C) Saul Bellow

(D) Joseph Heller

 

8. Gravity's Rainbow is written by:

(A) Norman Mailer

(B) Saul Bellow

(C) Thomas Pynchon

(D) Bernard Malamud

 

9. Michael Ondaatjee's Anil's Ghost deals with the terrorist activity in:

(A) India

(B) Sri Lanka

(C) Pakistan

(D) Burma

 

10. Which novel deals with the internment of the Japanese during the Second World War?

(A) Obasan

(B) The Woman Warrior

(C) Wife

(D) Catch-22

 

11. Who authored Prison and Chocolate Cake ?

(A) Rukun Advani

(B) Nayantara Sahgal

(C) Anita Desai

(D) Jhumpa Lahiri

 

12. The book The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin deals with the aboriginal people of:

(A) Australia

(B) New Zealand

(C) Canada

(D) Africa

 

13. Who has written the poem, "Red Wheelbarrow"?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) William Carlos Williams

(C) Hart Crane

(D) Wallace Stevens

 

14. 'As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.' Who said this about epic poetry?

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) S. T. Coleridge

(D) Macaulay

 

15. Who is Thyrsis in the poem of the same name written by Arnold?

(A) Arthur Hugh Clough

(B) P.B. Shelley

(C) John Keats

(D) Arthur Hallam

 

16. Aristotle argues that the soul of tragedy is:

(A) Character

(B) Diction

(C) Dialogue

(D) Plot

 

17. The concept of 'hegemony' was introduced by:

(A) Antonio Gramsci

(B) Walter Benjamin

(C) Hayden White

(D) Michel Foucault

 

18. The famous work Culture and Society is authored by:

(A) Richard Hoggart

(B) Terry Eagleton

(C) Raymond Williams

(D) F.R. Leavis

 

19. Who coined the phrase "Egotistical Subline?

(A) John Keats

(B) P.B. Shelley

(C) William Wordsworth

(D) S.T. Coleridge

 

20. Wolfgang Iser's name is associated with:

(A) Marxist Criticism

(B) Formalism

(C) Cultural Studies

(D) Reader Response Criticism

 

21. Who is the writer of the essay, "The Laugh of Medusa"?

(A) Luce Irigaray

(B) Monica Wittig

(C) Julia Kristeva

(D) Helene Cixous

 

22. "The empire writes back" was the phrase used by one of the following writers:

(A) Ngugi Wa Thiongo

(B) Chenua Achebe

(C) Salman Rushdie

(D) Arundhati Roy

 

23. In which form of poetry, is the speaker imagined to be addressing a silent listener?

(A) Sonnet

(B) Elegy

(C) Soliloquy

(D) Dramatic monologue

 

24. Sir Philip Sidney employs rhetoric as a tool to make his argument.

(A) Forensic

(B) Simple

(C) Rich

(D) Double

 

25. The last six lines of a Petrarchan Sonnet are called:

(A) a stanza

(B) an octave

(C) a hextet

(D) a sestet

 

26. A lyric in the form of an address to a particular subject written in varied metre is known as:

(A) Elegy

(B) Ode

(C) Sonnet

(D) Ballad

 

27. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold is the line from:

(A) "Byzantium"

(B) "Easter 1916"

(C) "An Acre of Grass"

(D) "The Second Coming"

 

28. ........ is credited with introducing the Sonnet form to England.

(A) Henry Howard Surrey

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) John Edward

(D) Sherwood Anderson

 

29. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

List I

(1) Gothic

(II) Flashback

(III) Hyperbole

(IV) Irony

List II

(a) a narrative technique that presents past events during current events

(b) something that shows how a person, situation, statement or circumstance is not as it would seem

(c) tales of horror, despair the grotesque and other dart subjects

(d) an extravagant exaggeration for emphasis or vivid description

Codes:

      (I) (II) (III) (IV)

(A) (b) (a) (c) (d)

(B) (a) (c) (d) (b)

(C) (d) (b) (a) (c)

(D) (c) (α) (d) (b)

 

30. "The Subaltern Studies" was a series of volumes edited by:

(A) Sudhir Mukherjee

(B) Meenakshi Mukherjee

(C) Ranajit Guha

(D) Rama Guha

 

31. 'Art of English Poesie (1589) was written by

(A) Sir Thomas Surrey

(B) George Puttenham

(C) Richard Potter

(D) Sir Thomas Hoby

 

32. Falstaff's death is dealt with in detail in one of the following plays by William Shakespeare:

(A) Romeo and Juliet

(B) Henry V

(C) Richard II

(D) Richard III

 

33. Mrs. Quickly is a comic character which appears in one of. William Shakespeare's following plays for the first time:

(A) Pericles

(B) Richard III

(C) Henry the Fourth Part 1

(D) Coriolanus

 

34. Who is the author of the line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

(A) Christopher Marlowe

(B) William Shakespeare

(C) John Keats

(D) Robert Browning

 

35. Which of the following works does not belong to John Webster ?

(A) The White Devil

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) The Devil's Law Case

(D) Women, Beware Women

 

36. Which of the following poems is not written by John Donne ?

(A) "The Good-Morrow"

(B) "Why So Pale And Wan, Fond Lover ?"

(C) "Death, Be Not Proud"

(D) "The Canonization"

 

37. The first version of John Milton's Paradise Lost published in 1667 consisted of:

(A) Ten books

(B) Eleven books

(C) Twelve books

(D) Thirteen books

 

38. Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras' is:

(A) a mock-heroic narrative poem

(B) a comedy of manners in two acts

(C) a novel set in rural background

(D) an essay dealing with social reforms

 

39. "Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

These lines are attributed to:

(A) William Shakespeare

(B) John Milton

(C) Dr. Samuel Johnson

(D) Sir Alexander Pope

 

40. The Augustan Age of English literature is also known as the:

(A) Neoclassical period

(B) Restoration

(C) Jacobean period

(D) Classical age

 

41. Which of the following pairs was ridiculed by John Dryden in his poem ?

(A) W.H. and Earl of Surrey

(B) Monmouth and Shaftsbury

(C) Theobald and Steele

(D) Addison and Swift

 

42. About John, Lord Hervey who said that "the human race was divided into men, women and Herveys"?

(A) Miss Fielding

(B) Frances Sheridan

(C) Lady Mary Montagu

(D) Mrs. Aphra Behn

 

43. Rasselas is written by:

(A) Oliver Goldsmith

(B) Edward Gibbon

(C) Joshua Reynolds

(D) Samuel Johnson

 

44. Thoughts on the Present Discontents was written by:

(A) William Robertson

(B) Daniel Neal

(C) Edward Gibbon

(D) Edmund Burke

 

45. The subtitle of Middlemarch is:

(A) A Study of Provincial Life

(B) A Study of Pastoral Life

(C) A Study of Rural Life

(D) A Study of Urban Life

 

46. In which of John Keats's poems does the line, "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" occur?

(A) "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

(B) "Lamia"

(C) "Sleep and Poetry"

(D) "Endymion"

 

47. Which of the following poems has not been authored by Coleridge?

(A) Christabel

(B) Kubla Khan

(C) Dejection: An Ode

(D) Ozymandias

 

48. Others abide our question. Thou art free. Matthew Arnold wrote this in a famous sonnet. Who is it addressed to?

(A) Socrates

(B) Plato

(C) Shakespeare

(D) Homer

 

49. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.' Where are these lines to be found ?

(A) Pope, Dunciad

(B) Byron, Don Juan

(C) Tennyson, In Memoriam

(D) W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming

 

50. 'Land of the Lie Teaching of English in India' is a collection of research papers in Indian English edited by:

(A) Meenakshi Mukherjee

(B) Bharati Mukherjee.

(C) Rajeswari Sundar Rajan

(D) Nancy James

Answer Key:

MAHARASHTRA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - 16TH APRIL, 2017

ANSER KEY UPDATED AFTER EVALUATION OF GRIEVANCES FOR PAPER-II 

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

1: B	2: B	3: B	4: D	5: B
6: B	7: A	8: C	9: B	10: A
11: B	12: A	13: B	14: D	15: A
16: D	17: A	18: C	19: A	20: D
21: D	22: C	23: D	24: A	25: D
26: B	27: D	28: A	29: D	30: C
31: B	32: B	33: C	34: B	35: D
36: B	37: A	38: A	39: D	40: A/D
41: B	42: C	43: D	44: D	45: A
46: D	47: D	48: C	49: D	50: C/D