MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH SEPT 2023 (HELD ON 26 Sep, 2021)
SET-ADirections (Q. Nos. 1 to 4) : Read the passage and answer the questions given below it :
Throughout his life and extensive writing career, Radhakrishnan tried to define, defend, and promulgate his religion of Hinduism, Vedanta, and the Spirit. He sought to demonstrate that his Hinduism was both philosophically coherent and ethically viable. Radhakrishnan’s concern for experience and his extensive knowledge of the Western philosophical and literary traditions has earned him the reputation of being a bridge-builder between India and the West. He often appears to feel at home in the Indian as well as the Western philosophical contexts, and draws from both Western and Indian sources throughout his writings. Owing to this scholarly stand, Radhakrishnan has been held up in academic circles as a representative of Hinduism to the West. His publications have been influential in shaping the understanding of Hinduism, India, and the East by the West. Radhakrishnan inherited from his upbringing a tacit acceptance of Advaita Vedanta and an awareness of the centrality of devotional practices associated with the smarta tradition. Advaita Vedanta is widely considered to be the most influential and most dominant sub-school of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice. Its teachings have influenced various sects of Hinduism and acquired a broad acceptance in Indian culture and beyond. The key source texts for all schools of Vedanta are the Prasthanatrayi, the canonical texts consisting of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras, of which they give a philosophical interpretation and elucidation.
1. Radhakrishnan ........................ Hinduism in the West.
(A) propounded
(B) studied
(C) popularized
(D) researched
2. Radhakrishnan was a/an ................
(A) propagator of Hinduism
(B) researcher of Western Philosophy
(C) follower of traditional Hinduism
(D) ambassador of Indian Philosophy and Culture
3. Radhakrishnan .................... Advaitam.
(A) doubted
(B) accepted
(C) questioned
(D) followed
4. The word ‘‘Canonical’’ means :
(A) Trend setting
(B) Path-breaking
(C) Rule-breaking
(D) Well-established
5. Henry James, an American-British novelist is regarded as a key figure between :
(A) Literary transcendatalism and literary modernism
(B) Literary realism and literary tradition
(C) Humanism and modernism
(D) Literary realism and literary modernism
6. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge writes :
Water, water everywhere
And all the boards did shrink
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.
Which figure of speech does he employ ?
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Irony
(C) Oxymoron
(D) Extended metaphor
7. For the first time in the history of Booker Prize for fiction, a graphic novel was nominated even though it failed to win the prestigious prize. The name of the graphic novel which figured in the long list of Booker Prize nominees in 2018 is :
(A) Sabrina
(B) The Mars Room
(C) The Water Cure
(D) The Long Take
8. What kind of sound is /m/ ?
(A) Fricative
(B) Nasal
(C) Affricate
(D) Semi-vowel
9. To which country, Hamlet is being sent by Claudius in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet ?
(A) England
(B) Denmark
(C) Venice
(D) Rome
10. In which play does Vittoria Corombona become the mistress of the Duke of Brachiano who for her
sake murders both her husband and his own duchess ?
(A) Old Fortnatus
(B) The White Devil
(C) The Maid’s Tragedy
(D) Philaster
11. In which of the following peoms do the given lines occur :
‘‘Thou wastnot born for death, immortal Bird !
No Hungry generations tread thee down.’’
(A) To a Skylark
(B) Ode to a Nightingale
(C) Ode on Intimations of Immortality
(D) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
12. In Divine Comedy, Virgil proceeds to guide Dante through the ................. concentric circles of Hell.
(A) Seven
(B) Eight
(C) Nine
(D) Ten
13. Miracle plays are based on the lives of :
(A) Knights
(B) Crusaders
(C) Pilgrims
(D) Saints
14. Nature, that fram’d us of four elements Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds :
Above lines are taken from ...............
(A) Edward II
(B) Tamburlaine the Great
(C) The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
(D) The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta
15. Which book of Nelson Mandela was published posthumously ?
(A) Long Walk to Freedom
(B) The Struggle is My Life
(C) Favorite African Folktales
(D) Dare Not Linger
16. Who is the speaker of the lines :
‘Then, my glasses/Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse/And multiply the figures, as I walk/Naked between my succubae’’ ?
(A) Sir Epicure Mammon
(B) Face
(C) Subtle
(D) Lovewit
17. The classification ‘‘Very Indian Poems in Indian English’’ was made by :
(A) Kamala Das
(B) A.K. Ramanujan
(C) Nissim Ezekiel
(D) Sarojini Naidu
18. Who is the heroine of Girish Karnad’s play Hayavadana ?
(A) Nalini
(B) Radha
(C) Padmini
(D) Shalini
19. In an eclectic approach to language teaching, the teacher chooses :
(A) To devise her own personal approach
(B) Different techniques from different language theories
(C) To strictly follow only one approach
(D) To alternate two approaches
20. Match the Critics (Column A) with the Mode of literary representation (Column B) :
Column A
(i) Helen
(ii) Henry Louis
(iii) Lee
(iv) Gerard
Column B
(A) Homographic Cixous
(B) Trickster Gate figure
(C) Signifying Edelman
(D) Feminine Vizenor writing
(A) (i) (D); (ii) (C); (iii) (A); (iv) (B)
(B) (i) (A); (ii) (B); (iii) (C); (iv) (D)
(C) (i) (B); (ii) (A); (iii) (D); (iv) (C)
(D) (i) (C); (ii) (D); (iii) (B); (iv) (A)
21. The work Specters of Marx is written by :
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Terry Eagleton
(C) Fredric Jameson
(D) Jacques Derrida
22. Who is the author of The Great Tradition ?
(A) I.A. Richards
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Franz Kafka
23. The literal meaning of ‘hamartia’ is :
(A) Misdirection
(B) Missing the mark
(C) Misconception
(D) Mistaken identity
24. The journal of Richard Steele that just succeeded The Tatler was :
(A) The Spectator
(B) Athenian Mercury
(C) Female Tatler
(D) Female Spectator
25. Matthew Arnold’s model of culture was based on :
(A) Industrialization
(B) Scientific progress
(C) Material prosperity
(D) Internal purification, integrity and abstinence
26. In one of his novels Thomas Hardy says, ‘‘Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain.’’ In which novel do these lines occur ?
(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
27. To thee I call, thou goddess of torment !
Thou cruel wight, that sorrowest even in pain;
Help me, that am the sorry instrument
That helpeth lovers, as I can, to plain.
The above lines are written by :
(A) William Langland
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Geoffrey Chaucer
(D) Edmund Spenser
28. The concluding line of Spensarian stanza is called :
(A) ‘alexandrine’ line
(B) ‘climatic’ line
(C) ‘Caesura’
(D) ‘terza rima’
29. Identify the figure of speech in the following lines :
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
(A) Prosopopeia
(B) Metonymy
(C) Dead metaphor
(D) Kenning
30. The prose work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is written by which of the following ?
(A) William Blake
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) Walter Scott
(D) Charles Lamb
31. Who was the most outstanding leader of a group who believed that ‘Eliot’s poetry was over-intellectual and that Auden’s was unduly sociological’ ?
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Roy Fuller
(D) Dylan Thomas
32. The literary phenomenon called ‘‘The Angry Young Men’’ occurred in the :
(A) Forties
(B) Fifties
(C) Sixties
(D) Seventies
33. Who are ape-like beasts in human form in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) ?
(A) Lilliputians
(B) Brobdingnagians
(C) Houyhnhnms
(D) Yahoos
34. Who termed metaphysical poetry as ‘‘affectation of big words, fustian phrases, jingling terms, strong lines .....................’’ ?
(A) Dryden
(B) Pope
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Burton
35. The relationship between signifier and signified is :
(A) arbitrary
(B) voluntary
(C) involuntary
(D) imaginary
36. Who is the author of The Theatre of the Absurd ?
(A) Albert Camus
(B) Franz Kafka
(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Martin Esslin
37. ‘Memoir Club’ of 1920 was originally centred on two daughters of :
(A) Leslie Stephen
(B) Duncan Grant
(C) E.M. Forster
(D) J.M. Keynes
38. Shropshire Tales are authored by :
(A) A.G. Street
(B) Adrian Bell
(C) Mary Webb
(D) Richard Aldington
39. The title of T.F. Powys’ Mr. Weston’s Good Wine, a novelistic allegory, was taken from :
(A) Jane Eyre
(B) Emma
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Sense and Sensibility
40. ‘The Open Boat’ is a story written by :
(A) Earnest Hemingway
(B) Stephen Crane
(C) Willa Cather
(D) John Updike
41. Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance is set in ...........................
(A) Calcutta
(B) Bombay
(C) Delhi
(D) Hyderabad
42. A dialect other than the standard or literary dialect is called :
(A) Pastiche
(B) Potpourri
(C) Medley
(D) Patois
43. Word tone is called ................... and Sentence tone is called....................
(A) Pitch, stress
(B) Cadence, meter
(C) Accent, intonation
(D) Inflection, rhythm
44. Who does Philip Sidney, in his essay ‘‘An Apology for Poetry’’, call peerless ?
(A) Philosopher
(B) Historian
(C) Lawyer
(D) Poet
45. Viktor Shklovsky was a member of :
(A) Russian Formalism
(B) New Critical School
(C) Prague School
(D) Moscow School
46. Which among the following is not a Freudian concept ?
(A) Overdetermination
(B) Sublimation
(C) Libido
(D) Condensation
47. E.P. Thomson wrote :
(A) Marxism and Literature
(B) Culture and Society
(C) The Use of Literacy
(D) The Making of the English Working Class
48. The scene in which Leantio’s mother plays at chess with Livia while in another room the Duke effects his seduction of Bianca occurs in :
(A) The Changeling
(B) A Game at Chess
(C) A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
(D) Women Beware Women
49. Jeremy Collier in A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked :
(A) Romantic Comedy
(B) Sentimental Comedy
(C) Restoration Comedy
(D) Tragi-Comedy
50. The subtitle of Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller is ..................
(A) The Life of Jack Wilton
(B) Dido, Queen of Carthage
(C) Summer’s Last Will and Testament
(D) Lenten Stuffe
51. Charles Dicken’s Hard Times mainly deals with :
(A) Moral problems
(B) Religious problems
(C) Political problems
(D) Social and Industrial problems
52. ‘‘The Deconstructive Angel’’ is an essay by :
(A) Paul de Man
(B) Barbara Johnson
(C) M.H. Abrams
(D) Jacques Derrida
53. What figure of speech has the poet used in the following line ?
‘‘O Death in life, the days that are no more’’.
(A) Parallelism
(B) Oxymoron
(C) Simile
(D) Dead metaphor
54. John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman deals with :
(A) Degradation of Postwar England
(B) Victorian love story
(C) Elizabethan period
(D) England during Restoration period
55. Who, among the modern poets, had an admiration for D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover ?
(A) Anthony Thwaite
(B) John Betjeman
(C) John Arden
(D) Philip Larkin
56. Which is not a Sentimental Comedy ?
(A) Love’s Last Shift
(B) The Conscious Lovers
(C) False Delicacy
(D) The Rivals
57. Henrik Ibsen who is hailed as the ‘father of realism’ belonged to :
(A) Italy
(B) Germany
(C) Norway
(D) Austria
58. Which modern play is described as ‘‘A Play in Which Nothing Happens Twice’’ ?
(A) Rhinoceros
(B) Look Back in Anger
(C) Birthday Party
(D) Waiting for Godot
59. Who, among the following, was not a war poet ?
(A) Wilfred Owen
(B) Ivor Gurney
(C) Alice Meynell
(D) Edmund Waller
60. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. These are the concluding lines of .....
(A) ‘‘To His Coy Mistress’’
(B) ‘‘Air and Angels’’
(C) ‘‘The Sun Rising’’
(D) ‘‘Death, Be Not Proud’’
61. A Way in the World is written by :
(A) William Congreve
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) George Eliot
(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
62. Which out of the following is the autobiography of Wole Soyinka ?
(A) The Lion and the Jewel
(B) You Must Set Forth at Dawn
(C) The Swamp Dwellers
(D) A Dance of the Forest
63. ‘‘Our Casuarina Tree’’ reminisces about whose childhood days ?
(A) Henry Derozio
(B) Toru Dutt
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) Sarojini Naidu
64. ‘‘How do I Love Thee’’ is a famous lyric composed by which of the following :
(A) Robert Browning
(B) Alfred Tennyson
(C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(D) Matthew Arnold
65. Aravind Adiga creates his Kittur modelled on :
(A) Mysore
(B) Bangalore
(C) Mangalore
(D) Chennai
66. The transition from Old English to Middle English began with the :
(A) Norman Conquest of 1066
(B) John Wycliffe’s Translation of the Bible in 1384
(C) The Black Death 1349-1350
(D) The Hundred Year War Against France 1337-1453
67. The situational approach to foreign language teaching requires that :
(A) Language be taught in specific realistic situations
(B) Learners must be drilled in the rules of grammar
(C) Learners must be made to translate extensively
(D) Vocabulary must be built in the target language
68. Shakespeare, according to Johnson, offers :
(A) Particular manners peculiar to individuals
(B) Particular manners peculiar to times
(C) Particular manners peculiar to place
(D) Representations of general nature
69. ‘‘Structure, sign and play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’’ was a paper presented by ............. in 1966 at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
(A) Michel Foucault
(B) Roland Barthes
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Lacan
70. By ‘Peripeteia’ Aristotle means :
(A) Climax
(B) Anti-climax
(C) Reversal of Fortune
(D) Interlude
71. When a nation casts off colonialism, it also casts off ‘‘the colonized man’’.
What is the implication of Frantz Fanon ?
(A) That native intellectuals must dig up the fragments of culture
(B) That one must exoticize one’s own people
(C) That it gives rise to isolationism
(D) When we become free of oppression, we regain our humanity
72. Omniscient narrators are necessarily :
(A) Heterodiegetic
(B) Homodiegetic
(C) Analeptic
(D) Prolepsis
73. In which play does Corvino try to force his wife, Celia, to the protagonist’s bed ?
(A) Epicaene, or The Silent Woman
(B) Bartholomew Fair
(C) Volpone
(D) Sejanus
74. Who is the author of Diary ?
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Samuel Pepys
(D) Alexander Pope
75. Identify the members of the Cockney School of Poetry from among the options given below :
(A) Leigh Hunt, John Keats, William Wordsworth
(B) John Keats, P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron
(C) Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Wilfred Owen
(D) Leigh Hunt, John Keats
76. What is a hypothesis ?
(A) A research question to be investigated
(B) A statement that the researcher wants to test through the data collected in a study
(C) A theory that underpins the study
(D) A statistical method for calculating the extent to which the results could have happened by chance
77. The first step of research is ..........
(A) Identifying a problem
(B) Examining a problem
(C) Selecting a problem
(D) Solving a problem
78. Which of the following is not a feature of the Masque ?
(A) The characters are deities of classical mythology, nymphs, and personified abstractions like Love, Delight, Harmony, etc.
(B) Dances of various kinds are introduced at appropriate places
(C) The scenery and costumes are very elaborate
(D) There is no restriction on the number of characters
79. Suzan-Loripark is a/an :
(A) African playwright
(B) Black American playwright
(C) American-British playwright
(D) White American playwright
80. During the reign of King James, in which continent were the first British colonies founded ?
(A) Asia
(B) Africa
(C) Australia
(D) North America
81. What do you consider as the main aim of interdisciplinary research ?
(A) To over simplify the problem of research
(B) To create a new trend in research methodology
(C) To bring out holistic approach to research
(D) To reduce the emphasis of single subject in research domain
82. Who among the following is NOT a representative poet of the Victorian Age ?
(A) Robert Browning
(B) Alfred Tennyson
(C) W.B. Yeats
(D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
83. In the word ‘management’ the morphemement is a :
(A) Derivational morpheme
(B) Inflectional morpheme
(C) Zero morpheme
(D) Prefix
84. Who translated Waiting for Godot into English ?
(A) Samuel Beckett
(B) Henrik Ibsen
(C) Eugene Ionesco
(D) Herald Pinter
85. Who, among the following, didn’t write a novel on the 1914-18 World War ?
(A) Sir Philip Gibbs
(B) R. H. Mottram
(C) Robert Graves
(D) T. F. Powys
86. John Buchan’s The Thirty-nine Steps is a/an :
(A) Epistolary novel
(B) Regional novel
(C) Romantic novel
(D) Psychological novel
87. Gabriel Garacia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is a story of ..................... Family.
(A) Buendia
(B) Bovary
(C) Emma
(D) Barangwen
88. Who is the hero of R.K. Narayan’s The Financial Expert ?
(A) Raju
(B) Krishna
(C) Chandran
(D) Margayya
89. Rajmohan’s Wife is written by ...........
(A) B.B. Lal
(B) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(C) Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
(D) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
90. The study of the structure of words is called :
(A) Phonology
(B) Lexicography
(C) Morphology
(D) Semantics
91. Which of these is a dialect of Old English ?
(A) Latin
(B) Northumbrian
(C) Irish
(D) Cockney
92. Wordsworth writes, ‘‘Humble and rustic life was chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart ......................... ’’.
(A) are under restraint
(B) find a better soil
(C) do not speak a plainer language
(D) cannot be accurately Contemplated
93. Which one of the following ‘CriticSchool’ pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Raymond Williams– Cultural Studies
(B) Fredric Jameson– Archetypal Criticism
(C) I. A. Richards– Historical Criticism
(D) Allen Tate– Marxist Criticism
94. What does the term ‘‘baroque’’ mean in the context of literature ?
(A) Grand and highly decorated style
(B) Highly satirical
(C) Very concise, short and precise description
(D) Tragic with a comic interlude
95. ‘True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed’.
These lines occur in :
(A) Vanity of Human Wishes
(B) Mac Flecknoe
(C) The Dunciad
(D) Essay on Criticism
96. ‘‘We look before and after
And pine for what is not :
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught :
Our sweetest songs are those that
tell of the saddest thought’’
Which of the following poets composed the above lines ?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) John Keats
(D) Lord Byron
Direction (Q. Nos. 97 to 100) : Read the following poem and answer the questions given below it :
O Lord of the Universe
Grant me these wishes :
Let wickedness of the wicked cease
Let the desire to do good in them increase.
Let all the living beings come together
As best friends.
Let the darkness of the sin recede,
And let the whole world behold
The Sun of one’s own Dharma arise.
Let all living beings obtain
Whatever they truly cherish.
Let every person on this planet be truly contented.
Let everyone in these three worlds be complete.
Let everyone eternally worship
The Primeval Man.
97. When can a person be truly contended ?
(A) When he obtains what he did not even dream of
(B) When all his enemies are destroyed
(C) When he obtains what he cherishes
(D) When he lives among his kins.
98. How can the wickedness of the wicked cease ?
(A) When the wicked are completely destroyed
(B) When the good outnumber the wicked
(C) When the Lord drinks the poison spread by the wicked
(D) When the wicked themselves develop the desire to do good
99. This prayer spreads the message of :
(A) The well-being of only a few
(B) The well-being of everyone in this world
(C) The wicked never getting any peace
(D) The good being rewarded and the bad punished
100. The sun in the poem has been used as a metaphor for :
(A) Knowledge
(B) Dark
(C) Heat
(D) Duty
answer key:
MAHARASHTRA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - 26th September 2021
FINAL ANSWER KEY FOR PAPER -II (Booklet Code : A)
SUBJECT CODE & NAME: (03) English
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1: C |
2: D |
3: B |
4: D |
5: D |
6: B |
7: A |
8: B |
9: A |
10: B |
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11: B |
12: C |
13: D |
14: B |
15: D |
16: A |
17: C |
18: C |
19: B |
20: A |
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21: D |
22: B |
23: B |
24: A |
25: D |
26: B |
27: C |
28: A |
29: B |
30: A |
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31: D |
32: B |
33: D |
34: D |
35: A |
36: D |
37: A |
38: C |
39: B |
40: B |
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41: B |
42: D |
43: C |
44: D |
45: A |
46: G |
47: D |
48: D |
49: C |
50: A |
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51: D |
52: C |
53: B |
54: B |
55: D |
56: D |
57: C |
58: D |
59: D |
60: A |
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61: B |
62: B |
63: B |
64: C |
65: C |
66: A |
67: A |
68: D |
69: C |
70: C |
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71: D |
72: A |
73: C |
74: C |
75: D |
76: B |
77: A |
78: D |
79: B |
80: D |
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81: C |
82: C |
83: A |
84: A |
85: D |
86: C |
87: A |
88: D |
89: D |
90: C |
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91: B |
92: B |
93: A |
94: A |
95: D |
96: B |
97: C |
98: D |
99: B |
100: D |
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