MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH -PAPER-III- APRIL 2017 (HELD ON 16.04.2017)
SET-B
(A) Pride and Prejudice
(B) Emma
(C) Sense and Sensibility
(D) Pamela
2. Which British Prime Minister was a distinguished novelist as well?
(A) Lord Palmerstone
(B) Harold Wilson
(C) Benjamin Disraeli
(D) Harold Macmillan
3. Who is the author of 'The Less Deceived' ?
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) Tom Gunn
(C) Dylan Thomas
(D) Philip Larkin
4. Who is the author of Under the Net?
(A) Iris Murdoch
(B) Angus Wilson
(C) C. P. Snow
(D) Kingsley Amis
5. The lines "An aged man is but a paltry thing/A tattered coat upon a stick occur in:
(A) "The Second Coming"
(B) "Byzantium"
(C) "Sailing to Byzantium"
(D) "A Prayer for My Daughter"
6. As a novelist, D. H. Lawrence tries to explore the dynamics of:
(A Man's relationship with nature
(B) European democracy
(C) Material human history
(D) Man-woman relationship
7. Which of the following novels is an example of the stream of consciousness technique ?
(A) Mrs. Dalloway
(B) One Hundred Years of Solitude
(C) Moby Dick
(D) The Great Gatsby
8. Which among the following is not a poem by W. B. Yeats?
(A) The Second Coming
(B) Sailing to Byzantium
(C) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
(D) The Snake
9. In which of the following works, the characters Lil and Albert are found ?
(A) "The Waste Land"
(B) "Patterson"
(C) "The Bridge"
(D) "Sunday Morning"
10. Who has written the poem, "The Age of Anxiety"?
(A) W. H. Auden
(B) T. S. Eliot
(C) Philip Larkin
(D) Ted Hughes
11. The character Benjy appears in William Faulkner's novel:
(A) Absalom, absalom
(B) The Sound and the Fury
(C) Light in August
(D) Intruder in the Dust
12. Michel Herr's Dispatches deals with:
(A) The Vietnam War
(B) The Gulf War
(C) The First World War
(D) The Second World War
13. Which writer is known as the "American Scott" in America ?
(A) Mark Twain
(B) Washington Irving
(C) James Fenimore Cooper
(D) Herman Melville
14. Who is the author of the book Nightrunners of Bengal?
(A) M. M. Kaye
(B) John Masters
(C) P. J. O. Taylor
(D) J. G. Farrell
15. The book The Shock of Arrival: Reflections Postcolonial Experience is written by:
(A) Anita Desai
(B) Bharati Mukherjee
(C) Meena Alexander
(D) Kiran Desai
16. The poem 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed is an elegy on Lincoln. Who is the poet?
(A) H. D. Thoreau
(B) John Whittier
(C) J. R. Lowell
(D) Walt Whitman
17. What is the meaning of the term "anagnorisis" as used by Aristotle?
(A) The hero's recognition of his tragic flaw
(B) The hero's ignorance of his tragic flaw
(C) The hero's recognition of his adversary
(D) The hero's recognition of his tragic end
18. The Uses of Literacy is authored by:
(A) Richard Hoggart
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) E. P. Thomson
19. Fredric Jameson is known for his work, titled:
(A) Literary Theory: A Short Introduction
(B) The Prison-house of Language
(C) Structuralist Poetica
(D) The History of Sexuality
20. The term 'intertextuality' denotes. that:
(A) The intention of the text is built into its texture
(B) The meaning of the text needs to be understood in the context of its author
(C) The meaning of the text is inscribed in literary language
(D) A text's meaning is related to the meanings of other texts
21. Name the critic who speaks about "willing suspension of disbelief while dealing with literature:
(A) S. T. Coleridge
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) William Wordsworth
22. Name one of the following books which pleads for the interdisciplinary studies:
(A) Theory of Literature
(B) Nation and Narration
(C) Death of a Discipline
(D) Well Wrought Urn
23. Who is the author of The Right Promethean Fire?
(A) Paul de Man
(B) Ihab Hassan
(C) David Lodge
(D) Hillis Miller
24. Semiotics means:
(A) The study of language
(B) The study of emotions
(C) The creation of meaning
(D) The study of signs
25. Who is the author of the novella, The Metamorphosis?
(A) Gunter Grass
(B) Franz Kafka
(C) Thomas Mann
(D) Herman Hesse
26. Who has written the novel Pedro Paramo?
(A) Eduardo Rabasa
(B) Mario Bellatin
(C) Juan Rulfo
(D) Sergio Pitol
27. Who is the author of the novel, Love Medicine?
(A) Sherman Alexie
(B) Joy Harjo
(C) Louise Erdrich
(D) Leslie Marmon Silko
28. Who has written the story. "The Book of Sand"?
(A) George Lamming
(B) Jorge Luis Borges
(C) Carlos Fuentes
(D) Alejo Carpentier
29. What is the date of the first English translation of Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World?
(A) 1914
(B) 1916
(C) 1919
(D) 1985
30. Who is the author of the novel, River Sutra?
(A) Kiran Desai
(B) Gita Mehta
(C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) Arundhati Roy
31. In a play by Girish Karnad, there are two friends-one is Brahmin and the other is an ironsmith. The play is:
(A) Nagmandala
(B) Yayati
(C) Hayavadana
(D) The Fire and the Rain
32. Joothan written by Om Prakash Valmiki is:
(A) a travelogue
(B) an, autobiography
(C) a collection of short stories
(D) a biography
33. Lambert Mascarenhas' Sorrowing Lies My Land is a novel on the life of ………………..
(A) Christian freedom fighter
(B) Hindu patriot
(C) The soldier
(D) The terrorist
34. Aurobindo's following book deals with the mythological theme in the epic form:
(A) The Renaissance
(B) Savidi
(C) Collected Plays of Aurobindo Ghosh
(D) Collected Essays by Aurobindo Ghosh
35. Name one of the following novels translated into English which deals with the problem of the Dalit entry into the temple in Karnatak.
(A) Samskara
(B) The Village Had No Walls
(C) Bharatipura
(D) The Wild Bapu of Garambi
36. Name the writer of the famous essay "Is there an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay".
(A) U. R. Anantha Murthy
(B) A. K. Ramanujan
(C) S. Radhakrishnan
(D) C. Rajagopalachari
37. You can use a language effectively even if you do not know how to:
(A) Listen and speak it
(B) Its grammatical rules
(C) Listen and read it
(D) Read and write it
38. English is a:
(A) Stress timed language
(B) Syllable timed language.
(C) Speech timed language
(D) Accent timed language
39. Who wrote the book Translation as Discovery?
(A) Meenakshi Mukherjee
(B) Sujit Mukherjee
(C) Harish Trivedi
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
40. A speech sound is also known as a:
(A) Phoneme
(B) Morpheme
(C) Grapheme
(D) Hieroglyph
41. English uses ……….. speech sounds
(A) 36
(B) 32
(C) 44
(D) 35
42. Grammar is the study of:
(A) The sounds used in language
(B) The literature written in that language
(C) The social relations among the users of that language
(D) The construction of different types of sentences used in language.
43. The audio-visual method of language teaching uses:
(A) Passages selected from language experts
(B) Speech recordings and video materials in the classroom
(C) Grammar books
(D) Reward and punishment for grammatical mistakes
44. The structuralist method of language teaching was influenced by the ideas of:
(A) Edward Sapin
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Noam Chomsky
(D) Zellig Harris
45. Human languages can generate very long sentences because they use:
(A) Recursive rules
(B) Paradigm rules
(C) Phonological rules
(D) Morphological rules
46. The sound ' and 'e' as used in English are produced at:
(A) The tip of the tongue
(B) The lips
(C) The alveolus
(D) The velum
47. The sound 'm' used in English is a:
(A) Bilabial Nasal
(B) Bilabial Fricative
(C) Lateral
(D) Plosive
48. How many consonant sounds does English use?
(A) 20
(B) 24
(C) 18
(D) 21
49. Communicative language teaching intends to:
(A) Explain the rules of grammar to the students
(B) Explain core vocabulary and enrich the vocabulary of the students
(C) Make students understand the meanings of selected passages
(D) Create/simulate real life situations in which students use the target language
50. The grammar translation method of language teaching emphasises the following skills:
(A) Reading and Listening
(B) Reading and Writing
(C) Listening and Speaking
(D) Speaking and Writing
51. "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in yoiur philosophy." This line is addressed by Hamlet to one of the following characters:
(A) Pollonius
(B) Ophelia
(C) Horatio
(D) The Grave digger
52. The following lines appear in a prologue to one of William Shakespeare's historical plays:
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene
(A) Julius Caesar
(B) Henry IV Part I
(C) Antony And Cleopatra
(D) Henry V
53. Who composed the poetic line 'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts'?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Byron
(C) Shelley
(D) Keats
54. "It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to re-create." Coleridge makes this statement about:
(A) Primary imagination
(B) Secondary imagination
(C) Fancy
(D) Sensibility
55. Which of the following novels deals with the attack on World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001 ?
(A) Dangling Man
(B) The Invention of the World
(C) Enduring Love
(D) Falling Man
Read the poem carefully and answer the questions (56-59) below:
I am that man with helmet made of thorn
Who wandered naked in the desert place,
Wept, with the sweating sky, that I was born
And wore disaster in my winter face.
I am that man who asked no hate, nor pity.
I am that man, five-wounded, on the tree.
I am that man, walking his native city.
Hears his dead comrade cry. Remember me!
I am that man whose brow with blood was wet,
Returned, as Lazarus, from the dead to live.
I am that man, long counselled to forget,
Facing a fearful victory, to forgive:
And seizing the two words, with the sharp sun
Beat them, like sword and plough-share, into one.
56. The line "I am that man with helmet made of thorn" is suggestive of:
(A) Customs and tradition followed in the society of the protagonist
(B) Pride and honour
(C) Pain and suffering
(D) Joy and bliss
57. The expression "sweating sky" is an example of:
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Antithesis
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Personification
58. The poem alludes to the theme of:
(A) Violence and death
(B) Celebration of life
(C) Alienation
(D) Man's proximity to nature.
59. The protagonist of the poem appears to be a
(A) Poet
(B) Soldier returning from war
(C) Habitual traveller
(D) Priest
60. The Elizabethan sonneteers imitated mostly one of the following foreign poets:
(A) Tasso
(B) Virgil
(C) Petrarch
(D) Plutarch
61. The allegory "The House of Fame' was written by:
(A) John Gower
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) John Lydgate
(D) Alexander Barclay
62. The first English comedy written in the imitation of Plantus comedy in the renaissance was
(A) Ralph Roister Doister
(B) Taming of the Shrew
(C) Damon and Pythias
(D) The two Gentlemen of Verona
63. Name the earliest morality play out of the following list:
(A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(B) Every Man Out of Humour
(C) The Castle of Perseverance
(D) King Johan
64. The line "Age cannot wither her nor custom state her infinite variety" occurs in Shakespeare's:
(A) As You Like It
(B) Antony and Cleopatra
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) A Midsummer Night's Dream
65. The play The Broken Heart is written by:
(A) John Ford
(B) John Webster
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) Thomas Middleton
66. The poem Denial' is written by:
(A) Abraham Cowley
(B) John Dryden
(C) George Herbert
(D) John Donne
67. Almanzor is the hero of the play:
(A) The Indian Queen
(B) The Conquest of Granada
(C) The Wild Gallant
(D) All for Love
68. 'Society of Friends' in England was founded by:
(A) William Penn
(B) George Fox
(C) William Dewsbury
(D) Richard Davies
69. Who is the author of the pamphlet "The Art of Political Lying"?
(A) Dr. John Arbuthnot
(B) Dr. Samuel Johnson
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Jonathan Swift
70. Oliver Cromwell, an English military and political leader is also known as:
(A) The Savior of Monarchy
(B) The Supporter of Charles I
(C) Lord Protector
(D) Prince of Scotland
71. All the following books, except one, were written in prison. Point out the exception:
(A) Don Quixote by Cerventes
(B) The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
(C) De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
(D) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
72. The Belle's Stratagem was authored by:
(A) Hannah Cowley
(B) Hannah More
(C) Frances Burney
(D) Hester Thrale
73. Who made the claim: "Whatever is, is RIGHT":
(A) Robert Burns
(B) A. E. Housman
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) William Wordsworth
74. George Eliot was the nickname adopted by one of the women novelists in English literature. Name of the novelist is:
(A) Mary Ann Evans
(B) Anne Bronte
(C) Jane Austen
(D) Virginia Woolf
75. In which of Keats's poems do you come across the line, "Thou still unravished bride of quietness"?
(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(D) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
ANSWER KEY
MAHARASHTRA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - 16TH APRIL,2017
ANSER KEY UPDATED AFTER EVALUATION OF GRIEVANCES FOR PAPER-III
SUBJECT: ENGLISH (SET B) (SUBJECT CODE 03)
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1: A |
2: C |
3: D |
4: A |
5: C |
6: D |
7: A |
8: D |
9: A |
10: A |
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11: B |
12: A |
13: C |
14: B |
15: C |
16: D |
17: A |
18: A |
19: B |
20: D |
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21: A |
22: C |
23: B |
24: D |
25: B |
26: C |
27: C |
28: B |
29: C |
30: B |
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31: C |
32: B |
33: A |
34: B |
35: C |
36: B |
37: D |
38: A |
39: B |
40: A |
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41: C |
42: D |
43: B |
44: B |
45: A |
46: A |
47: A |
48: B |
49: D |
50: B |
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51: C |
52: D |
53: C |
54: B |
55: D |
56: C |
57: D |
58: A |
59: B |
60: C |
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61: B |
62: A |
63: C |
64: B |
65: A |
66: C |
67: B |
68: B |
69: A/D |
70: C |
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71: D |
72: A |
73: C |
74: A |
75: C |
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