MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH APRIL 2024 (HELD ON 7 April, 2024)

MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH APRIL 2024 (HELD ON 7 April, 2024)

SET-A

1. Which of the following explains exploratory research ?

(A) The causes of a political phenomenon

(B) The causes of a social and economic phenomenon

(C) The causes of an educational phenomenon

(D) The causes of a cultural phenomenon



2. Who employed a technique ‘a poetical prose’ in his work, Confessions of an English OpiumEater ?

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) Sir Philip Sidney

(C) Sydney Smith

(D) Thomas de Quincy



3. Who has penned the novel, A Few Green Leaves ?

(A) Kate Pullinger

(B) Mario Puzo

(C) Barbara Pym

(D) Alan Plater



4. When did Arun Kolatkar publish his masterpiece ‘Jejuri’ ?

(A) 1974

(B) 1964

(C) 1976

(D) 1980



5. In the phrase a cup of milk, the relation between cup and milk is ................... .

(A) Paradigmatic

(B) Lucid

(C) Syntagmatic

(D) Cogent



6. Which of the following plays is labelled as a domestic tragedy ?

(A) The Dragon of Wentley

(B) George Barnwell

(C) Cato

(D) The Duchess of Malfi



7. Structuralist criticism is influenced by the ideas of .................. .

(A) Karl Marx

(B) Sigmund Freud

(C) T.S. Eliot

(D) Ferdinand de Saussure



8. In 1954, the first foreigner to be accepted as an Indian citizen was .................... .

(A) J.G. Fazer

(B) Verrier Elwin

(C) H.W. Garrod

(D) F.W. Green



9. Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society, 1780-1950, catalogues five key words that bear witness to a general change in ways of thinking of life, the social, political and economic institutions and their relations to learning, education and the arts. These are ................. .

(A) Land, Enlightenment, Feudalism, Merit, Culture

(B) Capital, Base, Superstructure, State, Culture

(C) Nature, Reform, Religion, Regulation, Culture

(D) Industry, Democracy, Class, Art, Culture



10. The terms Simulation and Simulacra are associated with ................ .

(A) Fredrick Jameson

(B) Jean Francois Lyotard

(C) Jean Baudrillard

(D) M.H. Abrams



11. All sounds of English are articulated with ................. .

(A) Pulmonic ingressive air stream mechanism

(B) Pulmonic egressive air stream mechanism

(C) Glottal airstream mechanism

(D) Palatal airstream mechanism



12. In which year did the British Parliament introduce the Drama Reform Bill in order to strengthen the native tradition of the British Drama ?

(A) 1800

(B) 1832

(C) 1854

(D) 1920



13. Exploratory studies are appropriate for some persistent phenomenon like ....................

(A) Sickness of an industry

(B) Sickness of social institution

(C) Sickness of cultural institution

(D) Sickness of political institution



14. Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of Books is a/an .................. .

(A) Essay

(B) Novel

(C) Satire

(D) Drama



15. For the deconstructionists, meaning results from :

(A) The interplay of words not used

(B) The interplay of words used

(C) The free play of words used

(D) The interplay of words used and not used



16. Jawaharlal Nehru’s Glimpses of World History was written serially in the forms of letters to ............. .

(A) his grandson Rajeev Gandhi

(B) his sister Vijayalaxmi Pandit

(C) his daughter Indira

(D) his father Motilal Nehru



17. Caste hierarchy and gender hierarchy are the organising principles of the brahmanical social order and are closely interconnected. The conceptualised term for exploring this relationship as used by feminist historians like Uma Chakravarti is ................. .

(A) Intersectionality

(B) Brahmanical Patriarchy

(C) Structured Sexuality

(D) Organised Reproduction



18. P.M. Nityananadan’s novel, Long, Long Day is ................ .

(A) An epistolary novel

(B) A detective novel

(C) A gothic novel

(D) A campus novel



19. Who is the narrator in Browning’s poem ‘My Last Duchess’ ?

(A) The King of Spain

(B) The Prince of Wales

(C) The Duke of Ferrara

(D) The Earl of Rochester



20. “A woman is not born, but made” is said by ................ .

(A) Shulamith Firestone

(B) Sandra Gilbert

(C) Simone de Beauvoir

(D) Luce Irigaray



21. What should the researcher primarily do for formulating a research problem ?

(A) Review the relevant literature

(B) Consult with research guide

(C) Discuss with experts

(D) Discuss with co-researcher



22. Nirad Chaudhari’s The Autobiography of Unknown Indian is dedicated to his ................... .

(A) Memory of the British Empire in India

(B) Contribution to the freedom struggle

(C) Intellectual and moral life

(D) Stay in England



23. Who is the first American dramatist to ever receive the Nobel Prize ?

(A) Tennessee Williams

(B) Eugene O’Neill

(C) Edward Albee

(D) Arthur Miller



24. Which of the following ages does Pope belong to ?

(A) Romantic Age

(B) Restoration Age

(C) Neo-classical Age

(D) Caroline Age



25. Vowels of English are produced with .................. .

(A) Complete closure

(B) Close approximation

(C) Open approximation

(D) Complete oral closure



26. Eugene O’Neill’s play on the psychology of colonialism and imperialism is .................... .

(A) Desire Under the Elms

(B) The Room

(C) Emperor Jones

(D) The Father



27. The concept of Negative Capability is said to have been coined by .................... .

(A) P.B. Shelley

(B) John Keats

(C) William Wordsworth

(D) S.T. Coleridge



28. Mahatma Gandhi set to the task of making himself an English Gentleman in .................. .

(A) London

(B) America

(C) South Africa

(D) Bengal



29. Scholastic, familial, religious, publishing and distribution, cultural, information and news etc. and their various associated institutions comprise, in Althusserian theory is ................. .

(A) The Independent Social Formations

(B) The Repressive State Apparatus

(C) The Ideological State Apparatus

(D) The Natural Progression



30. Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth is about ................... .

(A) Postcolonialism

(B) Postmodernism

(C) New Historicism

(D) Queer Theory



31. What is the main object of fundamental research ?

(A) To solve social problems

(B) To solve educational problems

(C) To solve commercial problems

(D) To advance the frontiers of Knowledge



32. Who wrote The Jungle Book ?

(A) Salman Rushdie

(B) Rudyard Kipling

(C) Raja Rao

(D) Khushwant Singh



33. Salman Rushdie’s novel, Shame is written on ................... .

(A) The racial issues in England

(B) The racial issues in America

(C) The political situation in Pakistan

(D) The rise of Christianity in the world



34. Who, among the following poets, wrote, ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ?

(A) Henry David Thoreau

(B) Walt Whitman

(C) Dylan Thomas

(D) Ralph Waldo Emerson



35. A wh-question in English is spoken with a .................. .

(A) Falling tone

(B) Rising tone

(C) Falling-rising tone

(D) Rising-falling tone



36. Who is the author of Theatre of the Hindus ?

(A) H.H. Wilson

(B) G.H. Wells

(C) Aniah Gowda

(D) A.B. Keith



37. Myth criticism is associated with ................. .

(A) Northrop Frye

(B) John Crowe Ransom

(C) Michel Foucault

(D) Dr. Samuel Johnson



38. A self-willed girl who attended London and Cambridge Universities for three years and came without degree and later became a famous poet ?

(A) Miss S. Chatopadeya

(B) Sarojini Naidu

(C) Cornelia Sorabji

(D) Toru Dutta



39. Which of the following texts is mentioned by Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism (1994) as a “prototypical modern-realist novel ..... and certainly not accidentally it is about a European who creates a fiefdom for himself on a distant nonEuropean island” ?

(A) Robinson Crusoe

(B) Treasure Island

(C) Gulliver’s Travels

(D) Heart of Darkness



40. Green studies is another name for ................... .

(A) Eco Criticism

(B) Postcolonial Criticism

(C) Cultural Studies

(D) Feminist Criticism



Direction (Q. Nos. 41 to 44) :

Read the passage and answer the questions given below it :

Waverley A novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1814. Scott had worked on the book intermittently since 1805. Edward Waverley, the hero, has been brought up partly by his uncle, Sir Edward Digby, who has Jacobite sympathies. When Edward receives his commission in the army and joins his regiment in Scotland, he visits Digby’s friend Bradwardine, another Jacobite, and is attracted to Rose, Bradwardine’s gentle daughter. Waverley’s romantic disposition leads him to visit the Highlands and seek out a freebooting character. Donald Bean Lean, and there he meets Fergus Mac-Ivor and his beautiful sister Flora, both ardent Jacobites and active in the Stuart cause. His connection with the Jacobites gets Waverley into trouble with his colonel. An incipient mutiny is laid at his door and he is cashiered; the intervention of Rose, who is devoted to him, saves him from prison. But injustice leads him to join the other side; he is encouraged by Flora and well received by the Young Pretender. At the Battle of Prestonpans the Jacobite forces are routed; but Waverley saves the life of Colonel Talbot, a family friend, who secures a pardon for him. The other Jacobite prisoners are severely dealt with and Fergus Mac-Ivor is convicted of high treason. Waverley, meanwhile, is rejected by the beautiful Flora, who enters a convent when Fergus is executed; eventually he marries Rose. Waverley was enormously popular: four editions were printed and sold in the first year of publication alone. Its success turned Scott’s career decisively from poetry to fiction, and all his subsequent novels were described as being ‘by the author of Waverley’.



41. What makes Waverley visit the Highland ?

(A) His uncle’s order

(B) His romantic disposition

(C) An incipient mutiny

(D) Battle of Prestonpans



42. Who saves Waverley from going to prison ?

(A) Sir Edward Digby

(B) Bradwardine

(C) Rose

(D) Colonel Talbot



43. What did the success of the novel Waverley do to Scott’s career ?

(A) He turned decisively from Poetry to Fiction

(B) He turned from Fiction to Poetry

(C) He turned into a Jacobite

(D) He turned into a Jacobite Sympathizer



44. The meaning of the word anonymous is ................. .

(A) Known origin

(B) Family name

(C) Unanimous

(D) Unknown origin



45. What is the main motif for research ?

(A) Desire to be of service of society

(B) Refinement of techniques of research

(C) Curiosity for unknown

(D) Study for more knowledge



46. Salman Rushdie’s The Jaguar Smile is a ............... .

(A) Travelogue

(B) Essay

(C) Satire

(D) Novel



47. V.S. Naipaul’s novel, The Mystic Masseur is set in .................. .

(A) Trinidad

(B) Paris

(C) Washington

(D) Mumbai



48. Which of the following poems was not written by John Donne ?

(A) The Good-Morrow

(B) The Extasie

(C) The Definition of Love

(D) A Hymn to Christ



49. From the following list, select the author, who commented critically on the limitations of Indian scholarship on classical drama of India ?

(A) Wilson S.H.

(B) Max Muller

(C) Henry H. Wells

(D) M.H. Abrams



50. The number of cardinal vowels, as devised by Daniel Jones, is ........... .

(A) Six

(B) Eight

(C) Five

(D) Seven



51. Liberal Humanism sees the individual as .............. .

(A) A postponement of the humanist ideal

(B) An effect of omnipresent power

(C) Unified and self-determining

(D) The category individual is rejected altogether



52. Who wrote Literature and Dogma ?

(A) Matthew Arnold

(B) William Hazlitt

(C) Lord Tennyson

(D) Alexander Pope



53. Who is the author of the book India Recalled ?

(A) Sri Aurobindo

(B) Rabindranath Tagore

(C) Cornelia Sorabaji

(D) Sarojini Naidu



54. Edward Said talks about ............. .

(A) Orientalism

(B) Modernism

(C) New Historicism

(D) Historicism



55. The word sing-song is an example of ............... .

(A) Acronym

(B) Reduplication

(C) Blending

(D) Compounding



56. In which play did the French dramatist Jean Anouilh modernize the Greak myth ?

(A) O’Edipus at Colonous

(B) The Mourning Becomes Electra

(C) Antigone

(D) Trojen Women



57. Studying a text without taking into account any outside influence is one of the main features of ................ .

(A) New Historicism

(B) Marxist Criticism

(C) Phenomenological Criticism

(D) Formalistic Criticism



58. Critically analysing realism, which of the following terms suggests not simply that texts come to a literal close but that their formal design or narrative movement constructs a position for the reader that reinforces a dominant view of the world ?

(A) Closure

(B) Code

(C) Cognitive Mapping

(D) Competence



59. Spenser’s Epithalamion is :

(A) An elegy

(B) A narrative poem

(C) A wedding hymn

(D) A sonnet



60. R.K. Narayan’s first novel, Swami and Friends was published in ......... .

(A) 1930

(B) 1932

(C) 1935

(D) 1938



61. Cornelia Sorabaji and Sarojini Naidu were prominent poets in public life associated with ............. .

(A) Women’s causes and politics during British rule

(B) Freedom and politics during British rule

(C) Family cause politics during British rule

(D) Personal causes and politics during British



62. Adopt, Adapt and Adept are phases in .................. .

(A) Postcolonialism

(B) Modernism

(C) New Historicism

(D) Culture studies



63. Who wrote the biography, The Great Indian Way : A Life of Mahatma Gandhi ?

(A) Mulk Raj Anand

(B) Raja Rao

(C) Nirad Chaudhari

(D) R.K. Narayan



64. In John Dryden’s “Essay on Dramatic Poesy”, who represents Dryden ?

(A) Lisideius

(B) Eugenius

(C) Neander

(D) Crites



65. “My Mind, My Soul grow longer than all space. Time Founders in that vastness glad and nude”.

These poetry lines are written by ................. .

(A) Rabindranath Tagore

(B) Bankim Chunder Chaterjee

(C) Sri Aurobindo

(D) Sarojini Naidu



66. In which among the following, the author is replaced by reader as the central agency in criticism ?

(A) Deconstruction

(B) Applied Linguistics

(C) Poststructuralism

(D) Structuralism



67. Select from the list the title of the book by Edward Said which discusses the relationship between

imperial culture and development of novel.

(A) The Rise of Novel

(B) Fiction and Form

(C) Novel and Culture

(D) Culture and Imperialism



68. In which city was James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses published on 2nd February 1922 ?

(A) London

(B) New York

(C) Paris

(D) Munich



69. Milton’s Paradise Regained is a sequel of :

(A) Samson Agonistes

(B) Lycidas

(C) Paradise Lost

(D) Aeropagitica



70. Which of the following words is an example of blending ?

(A) Smog

(B) Telephone

(C) Immoral

(D) Wonderful



71. A minimal distinctive unit in the sound system of a language is called ................... .

(A) Allophone

(B) Free Morpheme

(C) Phoneme

(D) Bound Morpheme



72. T.S. Eliot’s first play was ............. .

(A) Murder in the Cathedral

(B) Family Reunion

(C) The Cocktail Party

(D) Sweeney Agonistes



73. The conjunction neither—nor is an example of ................... .

(A) Syntactic negation

(B) Morphological negation

(C) Discourse negation

(D) Textual negation



74. The term ‘foregrounding’ is associated with .............. .

(A) Marxist School

(B) The Prague School

(C) Reader-Response School

(D) Feminist School



75. Which foreign publishing house first published Tagore’s translation of Gitanjali ?

(A) Penguin Random

(B) Harper Collins

(C) Oxford University Press

(D) Macmillain London



76. The words, “an architect by profession, he gave to his novels a design that was architectural, employing each circumstance in the narrative to one accumulated effect” speak volumes of the craftsmanship of ................... .

(A) Thomas Hardy

(B) William Thackeray

(C) George Orwell

(D) James Joyce



77. Who succeeded Wordsworth as the Poet Laureate ?

(A) Robert Browning

(B) Alfred Lord Tennyson

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Elizabeth Barret Browning



78. The theorist who discusses about ‘actual reader’ and ‘implied reader’ is ................. .

(A) Roman Ingarden

(B) Martin Heidegger

(C) Woolfgang Iser

(D) Walter Benjamin



79. Jacques Derrida draws attention to the necessity of borrowing one’s concepts from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined. He argues that therefore every discourse is ................. .

(A) Play

(B) Logocentric

(C) Bricoleur

(D) Postmodern



80. Who, among the following poets, wrote the poem entitled ‘To Brooklyn Bridge’ ?

(A) Hart Crane

(B) Sylvia Plath

(C) Dylan Thomas

(D) E.E. Cummings



81. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein is an example of ................ .

(A) Historical novel

(B) Gothic novel

(C) Picaresque novel

(D) Epistolary novel



82. Sir David Lyndsay’s Satyre of the Thrie Estatis is called ............... .

(A) Miracle Play

(B) Mystery Play

(C) An Interlude

(D) Morality Play




83. The Japanese film version of Macbeth done by Akira Kurosava was titled as ................ .

(A) Throne of Blood

(B) Rave Macbeth

(C) Joe Macbeth

(D) Shakespeare Retold Macbeth



84. In the sentence, The man who won the Nobel Prize is an economist, the underlined linguistic unit is a/an .............. .

(A) Adverb Clause

(B) Relative Clause

(C) Noun Clause

(D) Principal Clause



85. Who said that the modern western world is the grip of so-called Discourses ?

(A) Gary Gutting

(B) Foucault Michel

(C) Jung Carl

(D) Lacan Jacques



86. Frederic Jameson’s view that third world texts are necessarily national allegories has been critiqued by Aijaz Ahmad primarily by which of the following arguments ?

(A) The non-viability of a homogenous notion of the ‘Third World’.

(B) The concept of allegory is alien to third world literatures.

(C) Nationalism is a western concept.

(D) Most third world texts are either religious or melodramatic.



87. Longinus’ On the Sublime is written in ................. .

(A) Essay form

(B) Diary form

(C) Epistolary form

(D) Dialogue form



88. Appeals to the Christian Public is written by ................. .

(A) Joshu Marshman

(B) Raja Rammohan Roy

(C) Rama Kant Dubey

(D) Brajmohan Majumdar



89. In which of the following novels does the character of Lovelace appear ?

(A) Pamela

(B) Clarrissa

(C) The History of Sir Charles Garrison

(D) The History of Mrs. Beaumont



90. J. M. Synge is known for Paganism in his much discussed play ........... .

(A) The Riders to the Sea

(B) Man and the Superman

(C) The Family Reunion

(D) The Wild Duck



91. Who attributes his novelistic negotiations of tradition and modernity to ‘the double burden on the shoulders, the Alps of European tradition and the Himalayan of my Indian past’ ?

(A) G. R. Desai

(B) Raja Rao

(C) Mulkraj Anand

(D) Aubrey Menon



92. The ‘touchstone method’ was introduced into literary criticism by ................... .

(A) Matthew Arnold

(B) Cardinal Newman

(C) Walter Pater

(D) John Ruskin



93. In Foucauldian understanding, power is ................. .

(A) Centred upon the political body of the sovereign

(B) A state apparatus

(C) A productive network that runs through the whole social body

(D) A negative instance whose function is repression



94. Richard Hoggart is associated with ................... .

(A) Dadaism

(B) Modernism

(C) Gender Studies

(D) Cultural Studies



95. “Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll :

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul”

In which Canto of ‘The Rape of the Lock’, do the above lines appear ?

(A) Canto V

(B) Canto III

(C) Canto IV

(D) Canto I



96. Which was not the early English history play in the following list ?

(A) The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth

(B) The Chronicle History of King Lear

(C) Ralph Roister Doister

(D) King Henry III



97. Louise Montrose’s essay “Shaping Fantasies” is a fine example for .................... .

(A) New Historicism

(B) Psychoanalysis

(C) Phenomenology

(D) Close Reading



98. Influenced by Saussure, in understanding language as a system of structured difference, langue signifies ................. .

(A) Specific utterances that individuals deploy in everyday life

(B) The natural properties of speech

(C) The imperial languages

(D) The formal rules and conventions that organize language



99. Philip Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’ was written in the year :

(A) 1598

(B) 1591

(C) 1579

(D) 1595



100. In which year was Tobias Smollett’s novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random first published ?

(A) 1744

(B) 1746

(C) 1748

(D) 1750

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