MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH JAN 2018 (HELD ON 28.01.2018)
SET-A1. ‘‘Ripeness is all’’ is a line from :
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth
2. The Woman in the Moon is a play written by one of the following playwrights :
(A) George Peele
(B) Thomas Lodge
(C) Thomas Nashe
(D) John Lyly
3. The numbers of pilgrims going to Canterbury together in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is :
(A) 22
(B) 27
(C) 29
(D) 31
4. Which of the following is a play by Shakespeare ?
(A) Edward II
(B) Richard II
(C) Henry II
(D) Henry III
5. If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.
These lines are taken from :
(A) The Grasshopper
(B) The Scrutinie
(C) To Althea, from Prison
(D) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
6. I will not think of thee but as men do Of debts and sins; and then I’ll curse thee too.
These lines are taken from :
(A) Love Turned To Hatred
(B) Sonnet I
(C) A Doubt of Martyrdom
(D) The Constant Lover
7. ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesie’ is written by :
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) John Dryden
(D) Oliver Goldsmith
8. The pamphlet ‘A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage’ is penned by :
(A) John Vanbrugh
(B) Thomas D’urfey
(C) Jeremy Collier
(D) William Prynne
9. The central character in ‘The Way of the World’ is :
(A) Mirabell
(B) Foible
(C) Waitwell
(D) Lady Wishfort
10. Who was the first ever Poet Laureate ?
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) John Dryden
(D) Wordsworth
11. The term ‘metaphysical poets’ was coined by :
(A) Andrew Marvell
(B) John Donne
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) Abraham Cowley
12. The reign of Queen Elizabeth was spread over the period :
(A) 1554 – 1616
(B) 1588 – 1603
(C) 1558 – 1603
(D) 1564 – 1616
13. Oliver Goldsmith’s The Traveller was published in :
(A) 1749
(B) 1755
(C) 1770
(D) 1764
14. Richard Glover’s Admiral Hosier’s Ghost is :
(A) a Sonnet
(B) an Epic
(C) a Poetic drama
(D) a Ballad
15. ‘Currer Bell’ was the penname adopted by the British woman novelist :
(A) Anne Bronte
(B) Charlotte Bronte
(C) Maria Edgeworth
(D) Jane Austen
16. Which of Dickens’ novels opens with the words, ‘‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.......’’
(A) Oliver Twist
(B) A Tale of Two Cities
(C) Hard Times
(D) Great Expectations
17. In which of the following poems does the line, ‘‘The curfew tolls the knell of the parting day’’ occur ?
(A) ‘‘Lycidas’’
(B) ‘‘Adonais’’
(C) ‘‘An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’’
(D) In Memoriam
18. Who has propounded the theory of the ‘‘association of ideas’’ ?
(A) J.S. Mill
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Charles Darwin
(D) John Locke
19. The chief narrator in ‘Wuthering Heights’ is :
(A) Helly Dean
(B) Lockwood
(C) Henchard
(D) Catherine
20. Hardy added a subtitle to his novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles as his personal statement. What is it ?
(A) A Maid’s Tragedy
(B) A Plaything of Fate
(C) A Pure Woman
(D) A Tragedy of the Innocent
21. Who wrote the famous poem ‘Adlestrop’?
(A) Edward Thomas
(B) Dylan Thomas
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) T.S. Eliot
22. Which Greek God appears in the guise of a swan in Yeats’s poem, ‘‘Leda and the Swan’’ ?
(A) Apollo
(B) Dionysius
(C) Poseidon
(D) Zeus
23. The novel The House Made of Dawn is written by :
(A) Joseph Heller
(B) Louise Erdrich
(C) Susan Sontag
(D) N Scott Momaday
24. In which year Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ?
(A) 1954
(B) 1955
(C) 1956
(D) 1960
25. ‘‘Geoffrey Crayon, Gent’’ is the pseudonym of the American writer :
(A) Washington Irving
(B) Mark Twain
(C) James Fenimore Cooper
(D) William Cullen Bryant
26. Who wrote the book The Souls of Black Folk ?
(A) Ralph Ellison
(B) W.E.B. Dubois
(C) Richard Wright
(D) James Baldwin
27. The novel Bone People deals with the natives of :
(A) Australia
(B) New Zealand
(C) Canada
(D) England
28. Which novel inspired Jean Rhys to write Wide Sargasso Sea ?
(A) Jane Eyre
(B) Middlemarch
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Pamela
29. Who has written the poem ‘‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’’ ?
(A) Carl Sandburg
(B) Langston Hughes
(C) Claude McKay
(D) James Weldon Johnson
30. Who is the author of the novel, Gertrude and Claudius ?
(A) Norman Mailer
(B) D.H. Lawrence
(C) Philip Roth
(D) John Updike
31. Who defined poetry as ‘the criticism of life’ ?
(A) John Dryden
(B) I.A. Richards
(C) F.R. Leavis
(D) Matthew Arnold
32. Charles Dickens’s novel ‘David Copperfield’ is.............in character.
(A) Autobiographical
(B) Picaresque
(C) Pastoral
(D) Historical
33. For Aristotle, tragedy is an imitation of action which is serious, complete in itself and having a certain.........
(A) attitutde
(B) magnitude
(C) length
(D) intension
34. Who described nation as an ‘imagined community’ ?
(A) Stuart Hall
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Perry Anderson
(D) Benedict Anderson
35. Name the modern Marxist philosopher who coined the term ‘‘Ideological State Apparatus.’’
(A) Louis Althusser
(B) Terry Eagleton
(C) Frederic Jameson
(D) Edward Said
36. Who described Shelley as ‘‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain’’ ?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) W.H. Auden
37. Which one of the following pairs is correct ?
List-I
(I) Parable
(II) Persona
(III) Personi-
(IV) Symbol
List-II
(A) a word or object that stands for another
(B) a narrator or a storyteller of a literary work created by the author
(C) a brief narrative fication with a moral or religious lesson
(D) a device where ideas or objects are given human characteristics
Code : I II III IV
(A) C B D A
(B) B A C D
(C) A D B C
(D) D C A B
38. The term ‘diaspora’ literally means :
(A) Migration
(B) Immigration
(C) Scattering
(D) Journey
39. Edward E. Said’s Culture and Imperialism deals with one of the following central themes :
(A) The image of the Oriental in literature
(B) The theory of colonialism
(C) The development of novel as a vehicle of imperialism
(D) The colonizer’s civilizing mission
40. Who is the author of Age of Uncertainty ?
(A) John Kenneth Galbraith
(B) Amartya Sen
(C) Nirad C. Chaudhury
(D) W.H. Auden
41. Who mentions the referential and emotive use of language ?
(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) R.P. Warren
(C) J.C. Ransom
(D) I.A. Richards
42. An act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud by a character in a play is known as :
(A) Soliloquy
(B) Dramatic monologue
(C) Elegy
(D) Lyric
43. ‘‘Pied Beauty’’ by Hopkins is a :
(A) Petrarchan sonnet
(B) Miltonic sonnet
(C) Spensarian sonnet
(D) Curtal sonnet
44. Who coined the term ‘‘comic epic in prose’’ ?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) Henry James
(D) Henry Fielding
45. Invocation is an appeal for :
(A) Poetic power to Venus
(B) A cordial invitation to the reader
(C) Demonic duty to Flora
(D) Divine inspiration to the Muse
46. The strophe, the anti-strophe and the epode constitute the three parts of :
(A) The Lesbian Ode
(B) The Horatian Ode
(C) The Homeric Ode
(D) The Pindaric Ode
47. An artistic attempt to bridge together reality and imagination is called :
(A) Expressionism
(B) Impressionism
(C) Surrealism
(D) Realism
48. A couplet covers a.................thought written in two lines with rhyming ends.
(A) Complete
(B) Partial
(C) Rare
(D) Popular
49. The expression ‘‘cold fire’’ is an example of :
(A) Metaphor
(B) Metonymy
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Oxymoron
50. Caesura is :
(A) A mixutre of sounds
(B) An image
(C) A form of pastoral poem
(D) A pause in a line of poetry
ANSWER KEY:
MAHARASHTRA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - 28TH JANUARY 2018
FINAL ANSWER KEY FOR PAPER -II (Booklet Code: A)
SUBJECT CODE & NAME: (3) English
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1: A |
2: D |
3: D |
4: B |
5: C |
6: A |
7: C |
8: C |
9: A |
10: b |
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11: C |
12: C |
13: D |
14: D |
15: B |
16: B |
17: C |
18: D |
19:09 |
20: C |
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21: A |
22: D |
23: D |
24: A |
25: A |
26: B |
27: B |
28: A |
29: B |
30: D |
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31: D |
32: A |
33: B |
34: D |
35: A |
36: C |
37: A |
38: C |
39: C |
40: A |
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41: D |
42: A |
43: D |
44: D |
45: D |
46: D |
47: C |
48: A |
49: D |
50: D |
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