MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH DEC 2020 (HELD ON 27.12.2020)

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Direction (Q. Nos. 1-4) : Read the passage and answer the questions given below :

Translation is defined as a process of finding a target language equivalent for the source language text. In some extreme theoretical positions, equivalence is sometimes defined as the identity of not only the content but also of the form and the processes at various levels of the linguistic structure in the translated material in the target language. Equivalence, as we conceive it here, is the transfer of the content to the target language in a manner that is acceptable to and considered as the “genius” of the target language. This equivalence must be achieved in such a way that ambiguity, interference and variation in meaning are all avoided. Except where the original purposely resorts to polysemy, homography, homophony, and synonymy, the translated version is generally expected to avoid these. The translation should aim at seeking the conceptual equivalents; it should define the conceptual equivalents accurately and tender them in the linguistic terms of the target language. As people begin to travel from place to place, from one country into another for various pursuits, and as people groups begin to develop social, cultural and economic contacts with one another, the necessity for translation for effective communication increases. Multiplicity of languages is a fact of life in our world. People all over the world may prefer to learn English as an additional language and to attain some level of achievement in that language, and yet they would zealously continue to hold on to their own languages for socio-political, cultural and religious reasons.



1. Equivalence in translation includes :

(A) the context

(B) the form

(C) the content, the form and the process

(D) the process



2. Translation should be :

(A) literal

(B) ambiguous

(C) variant

(D) approximate



3. Translation generally avoids :

(A) multiple meanings

(B) different meanings

(C) dissimilar sounds

(D) dissimilar words



4. Now there is ................. demand for translation.

(A) no

(B) diminishing

(C) a little

(D) a growing



5. Who coined the phrase ‘Archiwriting’ ?

(A) Roland Barthes

(B) Jacques Derrida

(C) Edward Said

(D) Michel Foucault



6. Look Back in Anger is authored by :

(A) John Osborne

(B) Robert Bolt

(C) Samuel Beckett

(D) Harold Pinter



7. Brides of Reason is the title of a volume of poems authored by :

(A) Ronald Bottrall

(B) C. Day Lewis

(C) Donald Davie

(D) Keith Douglas



8. ‘Lead, Kindly Light’, a famous poem in English is written by :

(A) Cardinal Newman

(B) P.B. Shelley

(C) John Keats

(D) George Herbert



9. Match the works with the authors given below :

List I

(i) Andrea Del Sarto

(ii) The Blessed Damozel

(iii) Tess of the d’Urbervilles

(iv) The Lotus Eaters

List II

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) Tennyson

(c) Rossetti

(d) R. Browning

Codes :

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

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

(D) (c) (d) (a) (b)



10. In a nasalised sound the air stream :

(A) escapes through the nasal passage only

(B) escapes through the oral and the nasal passage simultaneously

(C) escapes through the oral passage only

(D) does not escape at all



11. Who among these is not associated with existentialist thought ?

(A) Friedrich Nietzche

(B) Rene Descartes

(C) Jean Paul Sartre

(D) Soren Kierkegaard



12. The antimasque was a form developed by :

(A) George Chapman

(B) John Marston

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) John Webster



13. The concept ‘Epiphany’ is mentioned in relation to the works of :

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) James Joyce

(C) Ronald Firbank

(D) Edward Marsh



14. While writing about the works of Wells, Bennett and John Galsworthy, who said that ‘they spend immense skill and immense industry making the trivial and the transitory appear the true and the enduring’ ?

(A) D. H. Lawrence

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) E. M. Foster

(D) James Joyce



15. What is the real name of Pablo Neruda, a surrealist poet of Chile ?

(A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(B) Margaret Eleanor Atwood

(C) Patrick Victor Martindale White

(D) Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto



16. Which character doesn’t appear in The Untouchable ?

(A) Maya

(B) Bakha

(C) Lakha

(D) Sohini



17. Who is famous for his work on ancient Indian scriptures ?

(A) Shashi Tharoor

(B) Devdutt Pattanaik

(C) Nikesh Shukla

(D) P. K. Balakrishnan



18. Tennessee Williams employed............ technique in his play The Glass Menagerie.

(A) Conventional

(B) Traditional

(C) Unconventional

(D) Religious



19. The Audio-Lingual Method of language teaching uses :

(A) Communicative theory

(B) Cognitive theory

(C) Behaviourist theory

(D) Semantic theory



20. The perspective called “Affective stylistics” was developed by :

(A) Michael Riffaterre

(B) David Bleich

(C) Stanley Fish

(D) Jonathan Culler



21. Which critic made a seathing attack on T.S. Eliot in 1920s, wrote a standard introduction to Poetics and authored The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal ?

(A) F. R. Leavis

(B) E. V. Lucas

(C) F. L. Lucas

(D) Middleton Murry



22. Which poet describes his childhood episodes as ‘spots of time’ ?

(A) P. B. Shelley

(B) Lord Byron

(C) William Wordsworth

(D) S. T. Coleridge



23. Match the following writers with their lifespan :

List I

(i) William Blake

(ii) Charles Lamb

(iii) P. B. Shelley

(iv) John Keats

List II

(a) 1795-1821

(b) 1792-1822

(c) 1775-1834

(d) 1757-1827

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

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

(D) (c) (d) (b) (a)



24. What do the following lines smack of ?

Mid hush’d, cool rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed,

Blue, Silver-white, and budded Tyrion,

They lay calm-breathing on the bedded grass;

Their arms embraced, and their pinions too;

Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu.

(A) Wordsworth’s Pantheism

(B) Coleridge’s Imagination

(C) Charles Lamb’s Humour

(D) Keats’ Sensuousness



25. Which one of the following works is not written by George Peele ?

(A) The Battle of Alcazar

(B) The Love of King David and Fair Bethasbe

(C) The Old Wives’ Tale

(D) The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay



26. Rasselas (1759) by Samuel Johnson is subtitled :

(A) King of Aragon

(B) Prince of England

(C) King of Scotland

(D) Prince of Abyssinia



27. O Love, how strangely sweet

Are thy weak passions,

That Love and Joy should meet

In self-same fashions !

These lines are written by :

(A) Henry Howard

(B) George Herbert

(C) John Marston

(D) John Donne



28. Identify the figure of speech in the following lines :

The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels.

(A) Synecdoche

(B) Transferred epithet

(C) Metonymy

(D) Personification



29. Which of the following writers is NOT a Victorian writer ?

(A) Samuel Butler

(B) George Eliot

(C) Emily Jane Bronte

(D) Philip Larkin



30. The novel Rites of Passage is written by :

(A) John Fowles

(B) J. G. Ballard

(C) William Golding

(D) E. M. Forster



31. Which of the following novels is subtitled A Novel Without a Hero ?

(A) Oliver Jurist

(B) Wuthering Heights

(C) Vanity Fair

(D) The Mill on the Floss



32. The line “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” occurs in which of the following poems ?

(A) “Ulysses” by Alfred Tennyson

(B) “The Lotus Eaters” by Alfred Tennyson

(C) “The Last Ride Together” by Robert Browning

(D) “The Scholar Gypsy” by Matthew Arnold



33. Who introduced the dramatic theory of ‘alienation effect’ ?

(A) Stringberg

(B) Bertolt Brecht

(C) Franz Kafka

(D) Antonin Artaud



34. While commenting on Theodore Francis Powys’ literary works, who said, “It does not seem likely that it will ever again be possible for a distinguished mind to be framed, as Mr. Powys has been, on the rhythms, sanctioned by nature and time, of rural culture” ?

(A) G. B. Harrison

(B) J. B. Priestley

(C) Herbert Read

(D) F. R. Leavis



35. The use of an interactive model of language teaching materials based on the learner’s everyday life situations are the strategies used by :

(A) The Army Method

(B) The Reading Method

(C) The Communicative Language Approach

(D) The Bilingual Method

36. Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in :

(A) 1991

(B) 1992

(C) 1993

(D) 1994



37. Which of the following books is NOT written by Taslima Nasreen ?

(A) Lajja

(B) French Lover

(C) Bakul Katha

(D) Shorom



38. Who among the following writers was a leading member of the Harlem Renaissance ?

(A) Allen Ginsberg

(B) Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

(C) Langston Huges

(D) Louisa Mary Alcott



39. Nataraj in The Man-fater of Malgudi is a :

(A) veterinary doctor

(B) printing press owner

(C) tourist guide

(D) philosopher



40. Who among the following did not publish a dictionary of the English language ?

(A) Robert Cawdrey

(B) William Tyndale

(C) Nathaniel Bailey

(D) Samuel Johnson



41. Teaching English for communicative competence in a specific field such as IT, engineering, business, accounting, hospitality is referred to by the acronym :

(A) ESP

(B) EAP

(C) EGP

(D) EFP

 

42. The Wretched of the Earth includes an introduction by :

(A) Jean-Paul Sartre

(B) Michel Foucault

(C) Aimé Césaire

(D) Nelson Mandela



43. Who called Spenser the “Poet’s Poet” ?

(A) William Hazlitt

(B) John Dryden

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) Charles Lamb



44. According to Aristotle, tragedy has ................... elements.

(A) 6

(B) 7

(C) 5

(D) 4



45. Identify the character about whom Charles Lamb characterises her manner as “innocence-resembling boldness” and William Hazlit found in that character “that forced and practised presence of mind”.

(A) Miranda in The Tempest

(B) Isabella in The White Devil

(C) Vittoria in The White Devil

(D) Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi



46. Which one of the following characteristics cannot be attributed to Charles Lamb’s essays ?

(A) Metaphysical element

(B) Humour and Pathos

(C) Mystification

(D) Autobiographical element



47. How does Donne argue that in killing the flea the girl commits triple murder ?

(A) The girl’s mother, father and the flea

(B) The poet’s mother, father andthe girl

(C) The poet, the girl and the flea

(D) The girl’s mother, father and the poet



48. Of the following which is a tragedy written by Ben Jonson ?

(A) Cynthia’s Revels

(B) The Poetaster

(C) Bartholomew Fair

(D) Sejanus



49. Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar’ was dedicated to ..............

(A) Sir Philip Sidney

(B) Christopher Marlowe

(C) Robert Greene

(D) Thomas Lodge



50. Who has made self-declaration about the microcosmic depiction as ‘the little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work’ ?

(A) George Eliot

(B) Jane Austen

(C) Walter Scott

(D) Joseph Conrad



51. Who is called the ‘Wasp of Twickenham’ ?

(A) Alexander Pope

(B) Jonathan Swift

(C) John Dryden

(D) Shaftsbury



52. Which one of the following is not included in the group of ‘Metaphysical poets’ ?

(A) Abraham Cowley

(B) John Donne

(C) John Cleveland

(D) Edmund Spenser



53. Which of the following statements or comments is NOT TRUE ?

(A) Tess is more sinned than against than the sinning.

(B) Robert Browning shares his robust optimism in his poems.

(C) Thomas Hardy is a pessimistic novelist and asserts the importance of the role of destiny or chance in lives of human beings.

(D) Thyrsis cannot be said to be a pastoral elegy.



54. Identify the metrical foot in the following line :

With a turf on my breast, and a stone on my head.

(A) Anapest

(B) Iamb

(C) Tetrameter

(D) Trochee



55. Which type of theme does L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between deal with ?

(A) Jamesian

(B) Lawrentian

(C) Restoration

(D) Jacobean



56. Which of the following novels of Charles Dickens has the autobiographical elements ?

(A) Bleak House

(B) Hard Times

(C) Nicholas Nickleby

(D) David Copperfield



57. Phonology studies :

(A) Patterns of sound

(B) Patterns of meaning

(C) Patterns of letters

(D) Patterns of sentences



58. Who wrote the novel The Plague ?

(A) Kingsley Amis

(B) Albert Camus

(C) Franz Kafka

(D) Jean Paul Sartre



59. Who wrote the play Rhinoceros ?

(A) Samuel Beckett

(B) Henrik Ibsen

(C) Albert Camus

(D) Eugene Ionesco



60. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was first published in :

(A) 1938

(B) 1939

(C) 1940

(D) 1941



61. Charles Morgan is the author of :

(A) The Fountain

(B) Orlando

(C) The Corn King and the Spring Queen

(D) The Cathedral



62. Which among the following is not an autobiographical writing by Taslima Nasreen ?

(A) Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood)

(B) Utal Hawa (Wild Wind)

(C) Ka (Speak Up)

(D) Lajja



63. Janaki is a character in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel :

(A) Coolie

(B) Untouchable

(C) The Village

(D) The Big Heart



64. Who was known as the ‘Nightingale of India’ ?

(A) Amrita Pritam

(B) Sarojini Naidu

(C) Mahadevi Varma

(D) Jalnavi Barua



65. Langue and parole are terms used by :

(A) Barthes

(B) Saussure

(C) Lacan

(D) Foucault



66. Choose the correct option which matches the critic (Column A) with the concept/theories they put forward (Column B) :

A

(i) Derrida

(ii) Saussure

(iii) Homi Bhabha

(iv) Edward Said

B

(a) Hybridity

(b) Deconstruction

(c) Orientation

(d) Structuralism

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

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

(D) (d) (c) (b) (a)



67. The word “womanist” was used by :

(A) Zora Neale Hurston

(B) Alice Walker

(C) Toni Morrison

(D) Harriet Beecher Stowe



68. “The artist is once more in rudiments an introvert, not for removed from neurosis.” Who wrote

these lines ?

(A) Kristeva

(B) Jung

(C) Lacan

(D) Freud



69. The line, “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow,” is from :

(A) The Tempest

(B) King Lear

(C) Hamlet

(D) Twelfth Night



70. Whom did John Keats regard as the prime example of “Negative Capability” ?

(A) Lord Byron

(B) John Milton

(C) William Wordsworth

(D) William Shakespeare



71. What is Hellenism ? It is ..........

(A) Love for Greek art, literature and culture

(B) the world of Hell

(C) Goethic culture and art

(D) a supernatural element



72. The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales were on their way to the shrine of ...............

(A) St. Augustine

(B) Our Lady of Caversham

(C) Thomas a’ Becket

(D) Our Lady Undercroft



73. ‘The Defence of Poesie’ is written by :

(A) Edmund Spenser

(B) Sir Philip Sidney

(C) Thomas Nashe

(D) Christopher Marlowe



74. In A GAME AT CHESS written by Thomas Middleton the white pieces represent :

(A) The English

(B) The Spaniards

(C) The French

(D) The German



75. The author of the biography Life of Johnson (1791) is :

(A) Edward Gibbon

(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(C) James Boswell

(D) Sheridan



76. What is the name of the club frequented by writers like Addison and Steele ?

(A) Fat Men’s Club

(B) Spectator Club

(C) October Club

(D) Kit Kat Club



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

(A) The Apparition

(B) The Ecstasy

(C) The Altar

(D) The Bait



78. What is Rime Royal ?

(A) It is a seven-line, iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc.

(B) It is a six-line, iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbc.

(C) It is a four-line, iambic pentameter stanza rhyming abab.

(D) It is a five-line, iambic hexameter stanza rhyming ababb.



79. The essential quality/qualities of a researcher is/are :

(A) Systematization or theorizing of knowledge

(B) Spirit of free enquiry

(C) Reliance on observation and evidence

(D) All the above



80. A volume of verse entitled Tender only to one is authored by :

(A) Carol Ann Duffy

(B) Derek Mahon

(C) Stevie Smith

(D) Paul Muldoon



81. Identify the correct sequence of research steps :

(A) Selection of topic, review of literature, data collection, interpretation of findings.

(B) Selection of topic, review of literature, interpretation of findings, data collection.

(C) Selection of topic, data collection, review of literature, interpretation of findings.

(D) Review of literature, selection of topic, data collection, interpretation of findings.



82. Vowels are produced with a stricture of :

(A) open approximation

(B) close approximation

(C) open and close approximation at the same time

(D) without any approximation



83. Research ethics do not include :

(A) Subjectivity

(B) Honesty

(C) Integrity

(D) Objectivity



84. Which poem by T.S. Eliot begins with the lines ?

‘I don’t know much about gods; but I think that the river

Is a strong brown god–sullen, untamed and intractable’ ?

(A) “The Dry Salvages”

(B) “The Hollow Men”

(C) “Ash Wednesday”

(D) “Four Quartets”



85. Who, among the following, is a dramatist ?

(A) Edgar Wallace

(B) Harcourt Williams

(C) Dorothy Sayers

(D) J.C. Powys



86. Derek Walcott in his poem ‘Far Cry From Africa’ refers to ..................... tribe.

(A) Sonjo

(B) Kikuyu

(C) Kamba

(D) Embu



87. Tagore’s Gitanjali reveals NOT :

(A) his deep roots in the ancient Indian traditions

(B) a personal quest for the Divine

(C) an outcome of his ecstasy

(D) a radical view of society



88. The Drum Dancer is a play by :

(A) Asif Currimbhoy

(B) Gurucharan Das

(C) Badal Sarkar

(D) Mahesh Elkunchwar



89. In Halliday’s classification of the functions of language, language use for learning and exploring the

environment is termed as :

(A) Representational

(B) Imaginative

(C) Interactional

(D) Heuristic



90. Which of the following statements is NOT correct ?

(A) A Creole is a language that has developed from a mixture of languages and become the main language in a particular place.

(B) A Creole is a person descended from the Europeans who first settled in the West Indies or the Southern United States of America.

(C) A Creole is a standard language used in official and formal situations by governments, in media and in education.

(D) A Creole is a person of mixed African and European race, who lives in the West Indies and speaks a Creole language.



91. Who does Sidney call “the right popular philosopher” ?

(A) Lawyer

(B) Poet

(C) Historian

(D) Mathematician



92. In the chapter “Historical Criticism” N. Frye represents a theory of :

(A) Symbols

(B) Modes

(C) Myths

(D) Genres



93. Which critic theorised the act of reading by foregrounding the concept of interpretive communities ?

(A) Stanley Fish

(B) Cleanth Brooks

(C) Allen Tale

(D) John Crowe Ransom



94. Which one among the following statements is not true in the context of Marxist criticism ?

(A) It tries to locate a text in its historical context.

(B) It makes ideological analysis.

(C) It argues that the author is autonomous, independent of history.

(D) It subscribes to dialectical materialism.



95. The letters of which English poet have been described by T.S. Eliot as “certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet” ?

(A) S.T. Coleridge

(B) Lord Byron

(C) Sir Walter Scott

(D) John Keats



96. Though Shakespeare is an Elizabethan playwright, some of his plays were performed for the first time in the Jacobean period. Which of the following plays was performed after 1603 ?

(A) The Comedy of Errors

(B) The Merchant of Venice

(C) Macbeth

(D) The Taming of the Shrew



Direction (Q. Nos. 97-100) : Read the following poem and answer the questions given below :

Our interiors never could remain

Quite Engligh. The local gods hidden in

Cupboards from rational Parsi eyes

Would suddenly turn up on the walls

Garlanded alongside the King and the Queen.

Today it is simpler to admit with relief :

The men are too greasy, their speech

Is too nasal, their wives either plain

Or overdone; they choose for their dresses

A shattering blue and choke their flowers

In tinsel; their mind is provincial,

Their children are dull.



97. Interiors of the houses have become :

(A) more Indianised

(B) remained unchanged

(C) Anglicised

(D) Outdated



98. What is the attitude of the Parsi ?

(A) Traditional

(B) Superstitious

(C) Sceptic

(D) Reasonable



99. The reference is made to :

(A) Poor Parsis

(B) Well-off ones

(C) Indianised ones

(D) Westernised one



100. Here the word ‘greasy’ means :

(A) soft

(B) selfish

(C) harsh

(D) slippery

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