MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH JUN 2025
(HELD ON 15th June 2025)
Q.1 What did
Marlowe’s protagonist in Doctor Faustus ask Mephistopheles to bring to amuse
him during the final days of his life?
1. Seven Deadly Sins
2. Cleopatra of Egypt
3. Paramour
4. Helen of Troy
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Faustus famously asks for Helen of Troy, calling her “the face that launch’d a
thousand ships.”
Q.2 Which of
the following poems was not written by W. B. Yeats ?
1. The Rose of the World
2. Byzantium
3. The Second Coming
4. For a Dead Lady
Answer: 4
Explanation:
For a Dead Lady is by Christina Rossetti, not Yeats.
Q.3 The novel
which portrays the ebb and flow of the mind of the character is referred to as
.............:
1. Stream-of-consciousness
2. Realistic
3. Existentialist
4. Social
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Stream-of-consciousness fiction depicts inner psychological processes.
Q.4 Écriture
féminine is advocated by:
1. Kristeva, Julia
2. Cixous, Helen
3. Irigaray, Luce
4. Lacan, Jacques
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Hélène Cixous coined and promoted the concept in feminist theory.
Q.5 A key
figure of the so-called Frankfurt School that relocated under threat from the
Nazis, who explored culture through combining Marxist and psychoanalytic
theories and argued that commodity culture is a form of mass deception, is
……….:
1. Friedrich Nietzsche
2. Theodor Adorno
3. Pierre Bourdieu
4. Michel Foucault
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Adorno critiqued the “culture industry” using Marxism and psychoanalysis.
Q.6 The human
organ that makes the phonatory system is ................ .
1. Larynx
2. Lung
3. Tongue
4. Hard palate
Answer: 1
Explanation:
The larynx produces vocal sound.
Q.7 Who, among
the following women novelists, portrays daughter and young wife in her novels ?
1. Nayantara Sahgal
2. Kamala Markandaya
3. Anita Desai
4. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Anita Desai focuses on domestic and psychological female roles.
Q.8 Raymond
Williams refers to William Cobbett, in Culture and Society, 1780-1950, who
believed that the working people must be in charge of their own educational
movements.
Which English
novel is mentioned by Williams, in this context, as having a similar position ?
1. Charles Dickens – Hard Times
2. Elizabeth Gaskell – North and South
3. George Gissing – The Unclassed
4. D H Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Hard Times critiques industrial education and class ideology.
Q.9 The book
The Myth of Sisyphus was written by:
1. Albert Camus
2. Jean-Paul Sartre
3. Friedrich Nietzsche
4. Søren Kierkegaard
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Camus explains absurd philosophy in this essay.
Q.10 Who coined
the concept of heteroglossia?
1. Mikhail Bakhtin
2. S. T. Coleridge
3. William Hazlitt
4. John Crowe Ransom
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Bakhtin used it to describe multiple voices in language.
Q.11 The
normative social ordering of identities and subjectivities along the
heterosexual/homosexual binary; the privileging of one as natural and the other
as deviant is not a primary concern for challenge in .....................
1. Foucault – The History of Sexuality
2. Sedgwick – Epistemology of the
Closet
3. Butler – Gender Trouble
4. Eagleton – Sweet Violence
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Eagleton’s work focuses on tragedy, not sexuality studies.
Q.12 The name
of the Novelist and the novel that won the John LlewellynRhys memorial prize
is:
1. Nirad C. Chaudhuri – Passage to
England
2. Khushwant Singh – Train to Pakistan
3. Ruskin Bond – Room on the Roof
4. Arun Joshi – The Apprentice
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Ruskin Bond won it for his debut novel.
Q.13 Duality in
human language refers to ……………. :
1. Structure at the level of sounds and
words
2. Structure at the level of words and
sentences
3. Structure at the level of sounds and
sentence
4. Structure at the level of sentence
and paragraphs
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Language operates at phonological and morphological levels.
Q.14 Which of
the following plays ends with the famous saying,
‘‘The strongest
man is he who stands most alone’’
1. Richard II
2. An Enemy of the People
3. Pygmalion
4. Macbeth
Answer: 2
Explanation:
The line is from Ibsen’s play.
Q.15 The Indian
Phrases ‘‘Datta, Dayadhwam, Damayata’’ appear in one of the following poems :
1. The Waste Land
2. Ash Wednesday
3. Little Gidding
4. Gerontion
Answer: 1
Explanation:
The Sanskrit words conclude Part V of The Waste Land.
Q.16 A novel
written in the form of letters is called ……………:
1. Epistolary
2. Elegiac
3. Picaresque
4. Historical
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Example: Pamela, Clarissa.
Q.17 The term
Dialectical materialism is associated with ………..:
1. Karl Marx
2. Richard Hoggart
3. Raymond Williams
4. Colin McCabe
Answer: 1
Explanation: A
philosophical foundation of Marxism.
Q.18 The
relation between a word and its meaning is ………….:
1. Consistent
2. Logical
3. Arbitrary
4. Coherent
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Saussure stressed the arbitrary nature of the sign.
Q.19. Edward
Said studies Orientalism as:
1. Marking a distinction between pure
and political knowledge
2. Producing knowledge in the human
sciences that transcends its author’s own circumstances
3. A dynamic intellectual, aesthetic,
scholarly, and cultural exchange between the colonizers and the colonized
4. A dynamic exchange between
individual authors and the large political concerns shaped by the three great
empires British, French, American
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Orientalism is a discursive cultural system.
Q.20 ‘Train to
Pakistan’ was published in the United States under the title ‘Mano Majra’. On
the banks of which river is this fictional village situated ?
1. Saraswati
2. Yamuna
3. Ganga
4. Sutlej
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Mano Majra lies near the Sutlej River.
Q.21. Direction
(Q. No. 21 to 24) :
Read the
passage and answer the questions given below it :
I was no doubt
at fault in having gone to that officer. But his impatience and overbearing
anger were out of all proportion to my mistake. It did not warrant expulsion. I
can scarcely have taken up more than five minutes of his time. But he simply
could not endure my talking. He could have politely asked me to go, but power
had intoxicated him to an inordinate extent. Later I came to know that patience
was not one of the virtues of that officer. It was usual for him to insult his
visitors. The slightest unpleasantness was sure to put the sahib out. Now most
of my work would naturally be in his court. It was beyond me to conciliate him.
I had no desire to curry favour with him. Indeed, having once threatened to
proceed against him, I did not like to remain silent. Meanwhile I began to learn something of the
petty politics of the country. Kathiawad, being a conglomeration of small
states, naturally had its rich crop of politicals. Petty intrigues between
states, and intrigues of officers for power were the order of the day. Princes
were always at the mercy of others and ready to lend their ears to sycophants.
Even the sahib’s peon had to be cajoled, and the sahib’s shirastedar was more
than his master, as he was his eyes, his ears and his interpreter. The shirastedar’s
will was law and his income was always reputed to be more than the sahib’s.
This may have been an exaggeration, but he certainly lived beyond his salary.
Question: Who
lived beyond his salary?
1. Sahib
2. Shirastedar
3. Sahib’s peon
4. Officers
Answer: 2
Explanation:
The passage explicitly mentions the shirastedar.
Q.22. The
meaning of “sycophant” is …………….:
1. Mentor
2. Strong opponent
3. Servile flatterer
4. Guide
Answer: 3
Explanation: A
sycophant flatters for personal gain.
Q.23 Who were
ready to lend their ears to sycophants ?
1. Princes
2. Sahibs
3. Shirastedars
4. Officers
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Princes are described as easily influenced.
Q.24 What had
intoxicated him?
1. Wealth
2. Physical Strength
3. Money and Property
4. Power
Answer: 4
Explanation:
The passage states power intoxicated him.
Q.25. The essay
‘Is There a Text in This Class?’ was written by ………….:
1. Harold Bloom
2. Edward Said
3. Elaine Showalter
4. Stanley Fish
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Fish is a reader-response theorist.
Q.26. A key
argument in Laura Mulvey’s ‘‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’’ (1975) in
the context of
gender is that
...................... .
1. In a world ordered by sexual
imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/ male and
passive/female
2. The split between spectacle and
narrative supports the women’s role as the active one of forwarding the story
3. The woman controls the film fantasy
and also emerges as the representative of power
4. The female protagonist is free to
command the stage, a stage of spatial illusion
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Central to feminist film theory.
Q.27. Who wrote
Mricchakatika, The Little Clay Cart ?
1. Bhasa
2. Bhavabhuti
3. Kalidasa
4. Shudraka
Answer: 4
Explanation: A
classical Sanskrit drama by Shudraka.
Q.28. ‘What we
call the beginning is often is the end
And to make an
end is to make a beginning.’’
In which of the
poems, do the above lines appear ?
1. Little Gidding
2. Burnt Norton
3. Gerontion
4. The Hollow Men
Answer: 1
Explanation:
From Eliot’s Four Quartets.
Q.29. Walter
Scott is associated with …………..:
1. Existential novel
2. Historical novel
3. Epistolary novel
4. Diasporic novel
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Scott pioneered the historical novel.
Q.30. The words
Langue and Parole are employed by…………….:
1. Jacques Derrida
2. Gareth Griffiths
3. Ferdinand de Saussure
4. Stuart Hall
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Core concepts of structural linguistics.
Q.31. The
character Rajam in the novel ‘Swami and Friends’ is the son of a…………:
1. Businessman
2. Police officer
3. Farmer
4. Contractor
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Rajam’s father is a police superintendent.
Q.32. One of
the distinctive features of human language is ……………:
1. Cultural transmission
2. Genetic transmission
3. Effective transmission
4. Non-effective transmission
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Language is learned socially, not inherited biologically.
Q.33. Critical
theory ‘New Historicism’ was founded by…………:
1. Walter Scott
2. Leo Tolstoy
3. Stephen Greenblatt
4. Patrick O’Brian
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Greenblatt introduced it in Renaissance studies.
Q.34. In which
kind would you place Philip Massinger and John Fletcher’s collaborative work A
New Way to Pay Old Debts ?
1. Tragicomedy
2. Farce
3. Tragedy
4. Comedy
Answer: 1
Explanation: A
blend of tragic and comic elements.
Q.35. When was
Wordsworth appointed as Poet Laureate ?
1. 1668
2. 1850
3. 1843
4. 1802
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Wordsworth was appointed in 1843.
Q.36. The novel
‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ is fine exemplar for …………..:
1. Magic realism
2. Social realism
3. Stream of consciousness
4. Intertextuality
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Márquez blends fantasy with reality.
Q.37. Vladimir
Prop’s The Morphology of the Folktale was written in the year:
1. 1925
2. 1928
3. 1930
4. 1932
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Propp’s structural study appeared in 1928.
Q.38 The
difference between British English and American English can be observed
................... .
1. Vocabulary only
2. Grammar only
3. Pronunciation only
4. In Vocabulary, grammar,
pronunciation, spelling
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Differences occur at multiple linguistic levels.
Q.39 Which of
the following novels is a pre-partition novel that relocates the world within
and around the Delhi based Nihal house-hold ?
1. Twilight in Delhi
2. Ocean of Night
3. All About H. Hatter
4. The Serpent and the Rope
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Ahmed Ali’s novel depicts Muslim life in Delhi.
Q.40 The book
Dominance Without Hegemony is authored by:
1. Gyanendra Pandey
2. Dipesh Chakrabarty
3. Ranajit Guha
4. Sumit Sarkar
Answer: 3
Explanation: A
major work in Subaltern Studies.
Q.41 Which is
not the play written in collaboration by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley ?
1. The Mayor of Quinborough
2. The White Devil
3. A Fair Quarrel
4. The Spanish Gypsy
Answer: 2
Explanation:
The White Devil is by John Webster.
Q.42 In whose
memory, did Alfred, Lord Tennyson compose ‘In Memoriam’ ?
1. John Keats
2. Arthur Henry Hallam
3. Lord Byron
4. Hugh Clough
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Hallam was Tennyson’s close friend.
Q.43 Which of
the following novels is written by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier:
1. Northanger Abbey
2. Melmoth the Wanderer
3. The Inheritance
4. The Surgeon’s Daughter
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Ferrier was a Scottish novelist.
Q.44 Lionel
Trilling’s “Freud and Literature” was written in the year ………..:
1. 1940
2. 1942
3. 1945
4. 1948
Answer: 1
Explanation: A
key essay linking psychoanalysis and criticism.
Q.45 In code
mixing ……………..:
1. Base language gets mixed with supra
language
2. Supra language gets mixed with base
language
3. Only one language is used for mixing
4. Incorrect sentence is mixed with a
correct sentence
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Code mixing embeds elements of a second language.
Q.46 All India
Progressive Writers Association was launched on 10th April, 1936 at
................ .:
1. Mumbai
2. Lucknow
3. Delhi
4. Bangalore
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Founded in Lucknow (1936).
Q.47 A central
focus of cultural studies is the social processes by which knowledge and skills
are acquired that enable us to be members of a culture. This is known as
.............. .
1. Agency
2. Acculturation
3. Authenticity
4. Urbanization
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Acculturation enables cultural membership.
Q.48 Who, among
the following, is considered as the father of multiculturalism ?
1. Paul Yuzyk
2. David Hardiman
3. Gayatri Spivak
4. David Arnold
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Yuzyk promoted multicultural policy in Canada.
Q.49 Which is
not the characteristic of good hypothesis among the following ?
1. Conceptual clarity
2. Simplicity
3. Brevity
4. Ambiguity
Answer: 4
Explanation: A
hypothesis must be clear and testable.
Q.50 Checking
Theory is a linguistic principle that occurs in ............. :
1. Structural linguistics
2. Generative linguistics
3. Traditional grammar
4. Systemic linguistics
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Part of Chomskyan generative grammar.
Q.51. The
Citizen of the World is written by
1. Samuel Johnson
2. Thomas Nashe
3. Edward Gibbon
4. Oliver Goldsmith
Answer: 4
Explanation:
The Citizen of the World (1762) is a series of essays by Oliver Goldsmith,
written as letters from a Chinese traveller observing English society.
Q.52. The terms
‘Mosaic’ and ‘Melting Pot’ are parts of
1. Historicism
2. Psychoanalysis
3. Queer Studies
4. Multiculturalism
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Both terms describe models of multiculturalism, explaining how diverse cultures
coexist within a society.
Q.53. Which of
the following award was given to Anita
Desai’s novel Fire on the Mountain?
1. Booker Prize
2. Nobel Prize
3. Sahitya Akademi Award
4. National Academy of Letters Award
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Fire on the Mountain (1977) won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Q.54. Which of
the following poems was not written by Matthew Arnold?
1. The Scholar Gipsy
2. The Moon Now Rises
3. Palladium
4. Dover Beach
Answer: 2
Explanation:
The Moon Now Rises is not a poem by Matthew Arnold.
Q.55. Who among
the following was not one of the University Wits?
1. Christopher Marlowe
2. William Shakespeare
3. Robert Greene
4. Thomas Lodge
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Shakespeare was not part of the University Wits; the group comprised
university-educated playwrights.
Q.56 Which of
the following poems does have the Carpe Diem as the main theme?
1. The Garden
2. To His Coy Mistress
3. Bermudas
4. The Definition of Love
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress urges seizing the moment—central to Carpe
Diem philosophy.
Q.57 Which of
the following is not a novel that belongs to the trend of magic realism?
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude
2. Ulysses
3. The Tin Drum
4. Shame
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Ulysses is a modernist novel employing stream of consciousness, not magic
realism.
Q.58 Who among
these is associated with Campus Novels?
1. Joseph Conrad
2. D. H. Lawrence
3. James Joyce
4. David Lodge
Answer: 4
Explanation:
David Lodge is renowned for campus novels like Changing Places.
Q.59 M.
Anantanarayanan’s work The Silver Pilgrimage deals with
1. the caste system in India
2. the adventures of Jayasurya
3. political issues in South India
4. Hindu religious practices
Answer: 2
Explanation:
The novel narrates the adventures of Jayasurya.
Q.60 Which play
by Sir George Etherege mirrors degraded moral life of the Restoration period?
1. The Way of the World
2. The Provoked Wife
3. Love in a Tub
4. The Beaux’ Stratagem
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Love in a Tub reflects Restoration comedy’s moral looseness.
Q.61 Which of
the following plays is written by Thomas Shadwell?
1. The Sullen Lovers
2. The Recruiting Officer
3. The Double Dealer
4. The Plain Dealer
Answer: 1
Explanation:
The Sullen Lovers is a comedy by Thomas Shadwell.
Q.62 In the
sentence “I wanna go home”, wanna is a contracted form of
1. want to
2. want him to
3. do not want to
4. want him not to
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Wanna is an informal contraction of “want to.”
Q.63 Raja Rao’s
Kanthapura opens with the invocation of goddess ……
1. Durga
2. Chamundi
3. Tulaja Bhawani
4. Kenchamma
Answer: 4
Explanation:
The novel begins with an invocation to Goddess Kenchamma, the village deity.
Q.64 Who wrote
the book entitled Musical Elaborations?
1. Partha Chatterjee
2. Antonio Gramsci
3. Ranajit Guha
4. Edward Said
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Musical Elaborations (1991) is by Edward Said.
Q.65 Empirical
research deals with
1. Some thoughts
2. Some abstract ideas and theories
3. Some units
4. Some problems
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Empirical research relies on observation and experience, not theory alone.
Q.66 Roland
Barthes Mythologies (1957) is admittedly an ideological critique of
........................ .
1. The sacred traditions of Europe
2. The predominance of literary theory
3. The ancient Greek and Roman heritage
of French Culture
4. The language of so-called mass
culture
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Barthes critiques the language and myths of mass culture.
Q.67 Which
character in Shakespeare’s play speaks the following lines ?
‘‘Cowards die
many times before their death the valiant never taste of death but once’’.
1. Antony
2. Macbeth
3. Richard II
4. Julius Caesar
Answer: 4
Explanation:
The line is spoken by Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar.
Q.68 A
periodical The Rambler, as imitation of The Spectator, was started by
.............
1. Alexander Pope
2. Joseph Addison
3. Richard Steele
4. Samuel Johnson
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Samuel Johnson founded The Rambler (1750).
Q.69 The critic
associated with Postcolonialism is
1. Terry Eagleton
2. Jean Lyotard
3. Jean Baudrillard
4. Helen Tiffin
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Helen Tiffin is a major postcolonial critic.
Q.70 William
Somerset Maugham’s first published work is known as ……
1. Liza of Lambeth
2. Lady Frederick
3. A Man of Honour
4. Of Human Bondage
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Liza of Lambeth (1897) was Maugham’s debut novel.
Q.71 ‘‘O Lady!
We receive but what we give
And in our life
alone does nature live’’.
In which of the
following poems, do the above lines appear ?
1. Christabel
2. Kubla Khan
3. Frost at Midnight
4. Dejection: An Ode
Answer: 4
Explanation:
These lines occur in Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode.
Q.72 Who
claimed English as Sarswati’s Gift to India ?
1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. C. Rajagopalachari
4. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Answer: 3
Explanation: C.
Rajagopalachari used this phrase to justify English education.
Q.73 The
autobiographical experiences of growing up as Dalit in the newly independent
India of 1950s, whose title signifies scraps of food left on a plate, is the
story of ................ .
1. Omprakash Valmiki
2. Kancha Ilaiah
3. Namdeo Dhasal
4. Manoranjan Byapari
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Joothan by Omprakash Valmiki depicts Dalit life in the 1950s.
Q.74 The term
Cultural Materialism was coined by
1. T. S. Eliot
2. F. R. Leavis
3. C. S. Lewis
4. Raymond Williams
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Raymond Williams introduced Cultural Materialism.
Q.75 François
Lyotard is associated with
1. Postcolonialism
2. Postmodernism
3. Historicism
4. Cultural Studies
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Lyotard is a key theorist of Postmodernism.
Q.76 Which of
the following is not a short story by Edgar Allen Poe that was published in
Graham’s Magazine ?
1. Murders in the Rue Morgue
2. The Masque of the Red Death
3. The Imp of the Perverse
4. The Philosophy of Composition
Answer: 4
Explanation:
The Philosophy of Composition is a critical essay, not a short story.
Q.77 Which of
the following poems was not written by Nissim Ezekiel ?
1. Night of the Scorpion
2. The Professor
3. After Midnight
4. A Time to Change
Answer: 3
Explanation:
After Midnight is not by Nissim Ezekiel.
Q.78 Whose
comic farce Englishman in Paris contested the field with Sentimental comedy ?
1. Henry Carey
2. George Lillo
3. Samuel Foote
4. George Colman
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Samuel Foote used farce to counter sentimental drama.
Q.79 In the
sentence “The truth is that he did not attend the classes”, the underlined
linguistic unit functions as .................. .
1. Subject
2. Direct object
3. Indirect object
4. Complement
Answer: 4
Explanation:
The clause acts as a subject complement, explaining “truth.”
Q.80 Case study
method believes that .......
1. All men share common problem
2. All men share common nature
3. All men share common fate
4. All men share common interest
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Case study assumes general human nature, studied through individuals.
Q.81 Charlotte
Perkins Gilman wrote a book entitled .................... .
1. Joining the Resistance
2. In Praise of Women’s Bodies
3. Fetishism and Curiosity
4. The Yellow Wallpaper
Answer: 4
Explanation:
The Yellow Wallpaper is Gilman’s landmark feminist text.
Q.82 Why
computer plays an important role in doing research ?
1. because of its variability
2. because of its sophistication
3. because of its availability
4. because of its easy handling
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Computers enhance research through speed, storage, and analytical
sophistication.
Q.83
Post-coloniality for Homi Bhabha, in The Location of Culture (1994), is a
salutary reminder of ............... .
1. The authentication of the
unambiguous histories of decolonial movements
2. The persistent neo-colonial
relations within the ‘new’ world order and the multinational division of labour
3. The need to be monologic rather than
an endless celebration of hybridity
4. The constitution of a field of
stabilization that is knowledge outside of representation
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Bhabha stresses continuing neo-colonial power structures.
Q.84 That there
are differences in language has been propounded by .......................... .
1. Chomsky
2. Ferdinand de Saussure
3. Halliday
4. Van Valin
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Saussure emphasized arbitrariness and difference in language.
Q.85 Rahoul,
the Hero of Bhabani Bhattacharya’s Novel So Many Hungers, begins his
conversation on Gandhism and regrets about his non-participation in
.................... .
1. World War I
2. World War II
3. French Revolution
4. Spanish Civil War
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Rahoul regrets missing the Spanish Civil War.
Q.86 Who leads
the conspirators in hatching the plot of murdering Julius Caesar ?
1. Brutus
2. Casca
3. Cassius
4. Cinna
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Cassius is the chief instigator of the conspiracy.
Q.87 Whose
essays are called “infinite riches in a little room”?
1. Christopher Marlowe
2. Thomas Nashe
3. Francis Bacon
4. Charles Lamb
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Francis Bacon’s essays are praised for brevity and wisdom.
Q.88
Gynocriticism is a term related to
1. Modernism
2. Postmodernism
3. Structuralism
4. Feminism
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Gynocriticism studies women’s writing from a female perspective.
Q.89 Who has
written the collection of short stories entitled, The Cow of the Barricades ?
1. Raja Rao
2. R. K. Narayan
3. Anita Desai
4. Kiran Nagarkar
Answer: 1
Explanation: It
is a collection of stories by Raja Rao.
Q.90 In which
of the following poems, does the poetic line, ‘‘If winter comes, can spring be
far behind’’ appear ?
1. Ode to a Nightingale
2. Ode to the West Wind
3. Ode on Melancholy
4. Dejection: An Ode
Answer: 2
Explanation:
The line concludes Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind.
Q.91 Who
published one of the most influential works on moral philosophy entitled ‘The
Sovereignty of Good and Other Concepts’ ?
1. James Joyce
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Iris Murdoch
4. Henrik Ibsen
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Iris Murdoch authored this influential philosophical work.
Q.92 The
concepts Feminine, Feminist, and Female were introduced by :
1. Toril Moi
2. Hélène Cixous
3. Elaine Showalter
4. Virginia Woolf
Answer: 3
Explanation:
Elaine Showalter proposed this classification in feminist criticism.
Q.93 Which of
the following poems was written by Ezra Pound ?
1. Gerontion
2. The Return
3. The Eye
4. Antique Harvester
Answer: 2
Explanation:
The Return is an early poem by Ezra Pound.
Q.94 The
decline of spirit of the Elizabethan drama begins with the works of
1. William Strode
2. Ben Jonson
3. Thomas Heywood
4. John Dryden
Answer: 2
Explanation:
The rigid classicism of Ben Jonson marks the transition.
Q.95 In the
sentence Ten thousand saw I at a glance, the phrase Ten thousand has been
.............. .
1. Foregrounded
2. Reduplicated
3. Blended
4. Clipped
Answer: 1
Explanation:
The phrase is foregrounded to intensify visual impact.
Q.96 Arrange
the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given
below :
(i) The
Republic
(ii) Politics
(iii) Leviathan
(iv) The State
and Revolution
1. (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
2. (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
3. (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
4. (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Plato → Aristotle → Hobbes → Lenin.
Q.97 Which type
of research is Exit poll survey ?
1. Exploratory research
2. Descriptive research
3. Historical research
4. Social research
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Exit polls describe voter behaviour at a given time.
Q.98 Associated
with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to combine Saussurean and Bakhtinian theories of
language and literature, the conceptual term argues that ‘‘any text is
constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and
transformation of another’’ .................... .
1. Écriture
2. Discourse
3. Heteroglossia
4. Intertextuality
Answer: 4
Explanation:
Intertextuality, developed by Julia Kristeva.
Q.99 Which of
the following novels has theme of Gandhiji’s village based economy ?
1. Murugan, the Tiller
2. Kandan
3. Althavar House
4. Conflict
Answer: 1
Explanation:
Murugan, the Tiller promotes Gandhian rural ideals.
Q.100 Who is
the author of Arcadia?
1. Thomas Nashe
2. Sir Philip Sidney
3. Daniel Defoe
4. William Webb
Answer: 2
Explanation:
Arcadia is a prose romance by Sir Philip Sidney.
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