MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH JUN 2025
(HELD ON 15th June 2025)
1. What did Marlowe’s protagonist
of Dr. Faustus ask Mephistopheles to bring to amuse him during the final days
of his life ?
(A) Seven Deadly Sins
(B) Cleopatra of Egypt
(C) Paramour
(D) Helen of Troy
2. Which of the following poems
was not written by W. B. Yeats ?
(A) The Rose of the World
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) For A Dead Lady
3. The novel which portrays the
ebb and flow of the mind of the character is referred to as .............
(A) Stream-of-consciousness
(B) Realistic
(C) Existentialist
(D) Social
4. Ecriture Feminine is advocated
by :
(A) Kristeva, Julia
(B) Cixous, Helen
(C) Irigaray, Luce
(D) Lacan, Jacques
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 :
(A) Friedrich Nietzsche
(B) Theodor Adorno
(C) Pierre Bourdieu
(D) Michel Foucault
6. The human organ that makes the
phonatory system is ................ .
(A) Larynx
(B) Lung
(C) Tongue
(D) Hard palate
7. Who, among the following women
novelists, portrays daughter and young wife in her novels ?
(A) Nayantara Sahgal
(B) Kamala Markandaya
(C) Anita Desai
(D) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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 ?
(A) Charles Dickens, Hard Times
(B) Elizabeth Gaskell, North and
South
(C) George Gissing, The Unclassed
(D) D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
9. The book The Myth of Sisyphus
was authored by ................ .
(A) Albert Camus
(B) Jean-Paul-Sartre
(C) Friedrich Nietzsche
(D) Soren Kierkegaard
10. Who coined the concept of
‘heteroglossia’ ?
(A) Mikhail Bakhtin
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) John Crowe Ransom
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 .....................
(A) Foucault, The History of
Sexuality
(B) Sedgwick, Epistemology of the
Closet
(C) Butler, Gender Trouble
(D) Eagleton, Sweet Violence
12. The name of the Novelist and
the novel that won the John LlewellynRhys memorial prize is :
(A) Nirad C Choudari–Passage to
England
(B) Kushwant Singh – Train to
Pakistan
(C) Ruskin Bond – Room on the Roof
(D) Arun Joshi – The Apprentice
13. Duality in human language
refers to .......................... .
(A) Structure at the level of
sounds and words
(B) Structure at the level of
words and sentences
(C) Structure at the level of
sounds and sentence
(D) Structure at the level of
sentence and paragraphs
14. Which of the following plays
ends with the famous saying,
‘‘The strongest man is he who
stands most alone’’
(A) Richard II
(B) An Enemy of the People
(C) Pygmalion
(D) Macbeth
15. The Indian Phrases ‘‘Datta,
Dayadhwam, Damayata’’ appear in one of the following poems :
(A) The Waste Land
(B) Ash Wednesday
(C) Little Gidding
(D) Gerontion
16. The novel written in the form
of letters is called ...................... .
(A) Epistolary
(B) Elegiac
(C) Picaresque
(D) Historical
17. The term dialectical
materialism is associated with .................... .
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Richard Hoggart
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Colin McCabe
18. The relation between a word
and its meaning is ................... .
(A) Consistent
(B) Logical
(C) Arbitrary
(D) Coherent
19. Edward Said studies
Orientalism as :
(A) Marking a distinction between
pure and political knowledge
(B) Producing knowledge in the
human sciences that transcends its author’s own circumstances
(C) A dynamic intellectual,
aesthetic, scholarly, and cultural exchange between the colonizers and the
colonized
(D) A dynamic exchange between
individual authors and the large political concerns shaped by the three great
empires British, French, American
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 ?
(A) Saraswathi
(B) Yamuna
(C) Ganga
(D) Sutlej
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.
21. Who lived beyond his salary ?
(A) sahib
(B) shirastedar
(C) sahib’s peon
(D) officers
22. The meaning of ‘sycophant’ is
...........
(A) a mentor
(B) a strong opponent
(C) a servile flatterer
(D) a guide and philosopher
23. Who were ready to lend their
ears to sycophants ?
(A) Princes
(B) Sahibs
(C) Shirastedars
(D) Officers
24. What had intoxicated him ?
(A) Wealth
(B) Physical strength
(C) Money and property
(D) Power
25. The essay ‘Is There a Text in
This Class ?’ was authored by ............ .
(A) Harold Bloom
(B) Edward Said
(C) Elaine Showalter
(D) Stanley Fish
26. A key argument in Laura
Mulvey’s ‘‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’’ (1975) in the context of
gender is that
...................... .
(A) In a world ordered by sexual
imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/ male and
passive/female
(B) The split between spectacle
and narrative supports the women’s role as the active one of forwarding the
story
(C) The woman controls the film
fantasy and also emerges as the representative of power
(D) The female protagonist is free
to command the stage, a stage of spatial illusion
27. Who wrote Mricchakatika, The
Little Clay Cart ?
(A) Bhasa
(B) Bhavbhuti
(C) Kalidasa
(D) Shudraka
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 ?
(A) Little Gidding
(B) Burnt Norton
(C) Gerontion
(D) The Hollow Men
29. Walter Scott is associated
with ....... .
(A) existentialist novel
(B) historical novel
(C) epistolary novel
(D) diasporic novel
30. The words Langue and Parole
are employed by ................ .
(A) Jacques Derrida
(B) Gareth Griffiths
(C) Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Stuart Hall
31. The character Rajam in the
novel Swami and Friends is the son of ...... .
(A) A Businesman
(B) A Police Officer
(C) A Farmer
(D) A Contractor
32. One of the distinctive
features of human language is .............. .
(A) Cultural transmission
(B) Genetic transmission
(C) Effective transmission
(D) Non-effective transmission
33. Critical theory of New
Historicism was founded by ................. .
(A) Walter Scott
(B) Leo Tolstoy
(C) Stephen Greenblatt
(D) Patrick O’Brian
34. In which kind would you place
Philip Massinger and John Fletcher’s collaborative work A New Way to Pay
Old Debts ?
(A) tragicomedy
(B) farce
(C) tragedy
(D) comedy
35. When was Wordsworth appointed
as the Poet Laureate ?
(A) 1668
(B) 1850
(C) 1843
(D) 1802
36. The novel One Hundered Years
of Solitude is fine exemplar for ....... .
(A) magic realism
(B) social realism
(C) stream of consciousness
(D) intertextuality
37. Vladimir Prop’s ‘‘The
Morphology of a Folktale’’ was written in the year .................... .
(A) 1925
(B) 1928
(C) 1930
(D) 1932
38. The difference between British
English and American English can be observed ................... .
(A) Only in vocabulary
(B) Only in grammar
(C) Only in pronunciation
(D) In vocabulary, grammar,
pronunciation and spelling system
39. Which of the following novels
is a pre-partition novel that relocates the world within and around the Delhi
based Nihal house-hold ?
(A) Twilight in Delhi
(B) Ocean of Night
(C) All about H Hatter
(D) The Serpent and The Rope
40. The book Dominance Without
Hegemony is authored by ............ .
(A) Gyanendra Pandey
(B) Dipesh Chakrabarty
(C) Ranajit Guha
(D) Sumit Sarkar
41. Which is not the play written
in collaboration by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley ?
(A) The Mayor of Quinsborough
(B) The White Devil
(C) A Fair Quarrel
(D) The Spanish Gipsy
42. In whose memory, did Alfred,
Lord Tennyson compose ‘In Memoriam’ ?
(A) John Keats
(B) Arthur Henry Hallam
(C) Lord Byron
(D) Hugh Clough
43. Which of the following novels
is written by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier ?
(A) Northanger Abbey
(B) Malmoth the Wanderer
(C) The Inheritance
(D) The Surgeon’s Daughter
44. Lionel Trilling’s essay
‘‘Freud and Literature’’ was written in the year ..................... .
(A) 1940
(B) 1942
(C) 1945
(D) 1948
45. In Code Mixing
................... .
(A) Base Language gets mixed with
Supra Language
(B) Supra Language gets mixed with
Base Language
(C) Only one language is used for
mixing
(D) Incorrect sentence is mixed
with a correct sentence
46. All India Progressive Writers
Association was launched on 10th April, 1936 at ................ .
(A) Mumbai
(B) Lucknow
(C) Delhi
(D) Bangalore
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 .............. .
(A) Agency
(B) Acculturation
(C) Authenticity
(D) Urbanization
48. Who, among the following, is
considered as the father of multiculturalism ?
(A) Paul Yuzyk
(B) David Hardiman
(C) Gayatri Spivak
(D) David Arnold
49. Which is not the
characteristic of good hypothesis among the following ?
(A) conceptual clarity
(B) simplicity
(C) brevity
(D) ambiguity
50. Checking Theory is a
linguistic principle that occurs in ............. .
(A) Structural Linguistics
(B) Generative Linguistics
(C) Traditional Grammar
(D) Systemic Linguistics
51. The Citizen of the World is
written by ..................... .
(A) Samuel Johnson
(B) Thomas Nashe
(C) Edward Gibbon
(D) Oliver Goldsmith
52. The terms ‘Mosaic’ and
‘Melting Pot’ are parts of ................. .
(A) Historicism
(B) Psychoanalysis
(C) Queer Studies
(D) Multiculturalism
53. Which of the following awards
was given to Anita Desai’s novel, Fire on the Mountain ?
(A) Booker Prize
(B) Nobel Prize
(C) Sahitya Academy Award
(D) National Academy of Letters
Award
54. Which of the following poems
was not written by Matthew Arnold ?
(A) The Scholar Gipsy
(B) The Moon Now Rises
(C) Palladium
(D) Dover Beach
55. Who among the following was
not the University Wits ?
(A) Christopher Marlowe
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Robert Greene
(D) Thomas Lodge
56. Which of the following poems
does have the Carpe Diem as the main theme ?
(A) The Garden
(B) To His Coy Mistress
(C) Bermudas
(D) The Definition of Love
57. Which of the following is not
a novel that belongs to the trend of magic realism ?
(A) One Hundred Years of Solitude
(B) Ulysses
(C) Tin Drum
(D) Shame
58. Who among these is associated
with Campus Novels ?
(A) Joseph Conrad
(B) D.H. Lawrence
(C) James Joyce
(D) David Lodge
59. M. Anantanarayanan’s work, The
Silver Pilgrimage deals with ......... .
(A) the caste system in India
(B) the adventures of Jayasurya
(C) the political issues in South
India
(D) the Hindu religious practices
60. Which of the following plays
by Sir
George Etherege mirrors degraded
moral life in the Restoration
period ?
(A) The Way of the World
(B) The Provoked Wife
(C) Love in a Tub
(D) The Breux Strategy
61. Which of the following plays
is written by Thomas Shadwell ?
(A) The Sullen Lovers
(B) The Recruiting Officer
(C) The Double Dealer
(D) The Plain Dealer
62. In the sentence I wanna go
home, wanna is a contracted form of ....... .
(A) Want to
(B) Want him to
(C) Do not want to
(D) Want him not to
63. Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura
opens with the invocation of goddess ....... .
(A) Durga
(B) Chamundi
(C) Tulaja Bhawani
(D) Kenchaamma
64. Who wrote the book entitled
Musical Elaborations ?
(A) Parth Chatterjee
(B) Antonio Gramsci
(C) Ranajit Guha
(D) Edward Said
65. Empirical research deals with
...... .
(A) some thoughts
(B) some abstract ideas and
theories
(C) some units
(D) some problems
66. Roland Barthes Mythologies
(1957) is admittedly an ideological critique of ........................ .
(A) The sacred traditions of
Europe
(B) The predominance of literary
theory
(C) The ancient Greek and Roman
heritage of French Culture
(D) The language of so-called mass
culture
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’’.
(A) Antony
(B) Macbeth
(C) Richard II
(D) Julius Caesar
68. A periodical The Rambler, as
imitation of The Spectator, was started by .............
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Sir Richard Steele
(D) Samuel Johnson
69. The critic associated with
Postcolonialism is ............... .
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Jean Lyotard
(C) Jean Baudrillard
(D) Helen Tiffin
70. William Somerset Maugham’s
first published work is known as ......... .
(A) Liza of Lambeth
(B) Lady Frederick
(C) A Man of Honour
(D) Of Human Bondage
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 ?
(A) Christabel
(B) Kubla Khan
(C) Frost at Midnight
(D) Dejection, An Ode
72. Who claimed English as
Sarswati’s Gift to India ?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) C. Rajagopalachari
(D) Vijayalaxmi Pandit
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
................ .
(A) Omprakash Valmiki
(B) Kancha Ilaiah
(C) Namdeo Dhasal
(D) Manoranjan Byapari
74. The term ‘Cultural
Materialism’ was coined by ................
(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) F. R. Leavis
(C) C. S. Lewis
(D) Raymond Williams
75. Francois Lyotard is associated
with ...................... .
(A) Postcolonialism
(B) Postmodernism
(C) Historicism
(D) Culture studies
76. Which of the following is not
a short story by Edgar Allen Poe that was published in Graham’s Magazine ?
(A) Murders in the Rue Morgue
(B) The Masque of the Red Death
(C) The Imp of the Perverse
(D) The Philosophy of Composition
77. Which of the following poems
was not written by Nissim Ezekiel ?
(A) Night of the Scorpion
(B) The Professor
(C) After Midnight
(D) A Time to Change
78. Whose comic farce Englishman
in Paris contested the field with Sentimental comedy ?
(A) Henry Carey
(B) George Lillo
(C) Samuel Foote
(D) George Colman
79. In the sentence The truth is
that he did not attend the classes, the underlined linguistic unit functions as
.................. .
(A) Subject
(B) Direct object
(C) Indirect object
(D) Complement
80. Case study method believes
that .......
(A) all men share common problem
(B) all men share common nature
(C) all men share common fate
(D) all men share common interest
81. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote
a book entitled .................... .
(A) Joining the resistance
(B) In Praise of Women’s Bodies
(C) Fetishism and Curiosity
(D) The Yellow Wallpaper
82. Why computer plays an
important role in doing research ?
(A) because of its variability
(B) because of its sophistication
(C) because of its easy
availability
(D) because of its easy handling
83. Post-coloniality for Homi
Bhabha, in The Location of Culture (1994), is a salutary reminder of
............... .
(A) The authentication of the
unambiguous histories of decolonial movements
(B) The persistent neo-colonial
relations within the ‘new’ world order and the multinationaldivision of labour
(C) The need to be monologic
rather than an endless celebration of hybridity
(D) The constitution of a field of
stabilization that is knowledge outside of representation
84. That there are differences in
language has been propounded by .......................... .
(A) Chomsky
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Halliday
(D) Van Valin
85. Rahoul, the Hero of Bhabani
Bhattacharya’s Novel So Many Hungers, begins his conversation on Gandhism and
regrets about his non-participation in .................... .
(A) World War I
(B) World War II
(C) French Revolution
(D) Spanish Civil War
86. Who leads the conspirators in
hatching the plot of murdering Julius Caesar ?
(A) Brutus
(B) Casca
(C) Cassius
(D) Cinna
87. Whose essays are called
‘infinite riches in a little room’ ?
(A) Christopher Marlowe
(B) Thomas Nashe
(C) Francis Bacon
(D) Charles Lamb
88. Gynocriticism is a term
related to .............. .
(A) Modernism
(B) Postmodernism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Feminism
89. Who has written the collection
of short stories entitled, The Cow of the Barricades ?
(A) Raja Rao
(B) R.K. Narayan
(C) Anita Desai
(D) Kiran Nagarkar
90. In which of the following
poems, does the poetic line, ‘‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind’’
appear ?
(A) Ode to a Nightingale
(B) Ode to the West Wind
(C) Ode On Melancholy
(D) Dejection, An Ode
91. Who published one of the most
influential works on moral philosophy entitled ‘The Sovereignty of Good and
Other Concepts’ ?
(A) James Joyce
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) Iris Murdoch
(D) Henrik Ibsen
92. The concepts Feminine,
Feminist, and Female were introduced by :
(A) Toril Moi
(B) Helene Cixous
(C) Elaine Showalter
(D) Virginia Woolf
93. Which of the following poems
was written by Ezra Pound ?
(A) Gerontion
(B) The Return
(C) The Eye
(D) Antique Harvester
94. The decline of spirit of the
Elizabethan drama begins with the works of :
(A) William Strode
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) Thomas Heywood
(D) John Dryden
95. In the sentence Ten thousand
saw I at a glance, the phrase Ten thousand has been .............. .
(A) Foregrounded
(B) Reduplicated
(C) Blended
(D) Clipped
96. Arrange the following books in
the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below :
(i) Politics
(ii) The State and Revolution
(iii) The Republic
(iv) The Leviathan
Code :
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(C) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(D) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
97. Which type of research is Exit
poll survey ?
(A) an exploratory research
(B) a descriptive research
(C) a historical research
(D) a social research
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’’
.................... .
(A) Ecriture
(B) Discourse
(C) Heteroglossia
(D) Intertextual
99. Which of the following novels
has theme of Gandhiji’s village based economy ?
(A) Murugan, the Tiller
(B) Kandan
(C) Atlavar House
(D) Conflict
100. Who is the author of Arcadia
?
(A) Thomas Nashe
(B) Sir Philip Sidney
(C) Daniel Defoe
(D) William Webb
QueNo Answer
1 D
2 D
3 A
4 B
5 B
6 A
7 C
8 A
9 A
10 A
11 D
12 C
13 A
14 B
15 A
16 A
17 A
18 C
19 C
20 D
21 B
22 C
23 A
24 D
25 D
26 A
27 D
28 A
29 B
30 C
31 B
32 A
33 C
34 A
35 C
36 A
37 B
38 D
39 A
40 C
41 B
42 B
43 C
44 A
45 B
46 B
47 B
48 A
49 D
50 B
51 D
52 D
53 k
54 B
55 B
56 B
57 B
58 D
59 B
60 C
61 A
62 A
63 D
64 D
65 D
66 D
67 D
68 D
69 D
70 A
71 D
72 C
73 A
74 D
75 B
76 D
77 C
78 C
79 D
80 B
81 D
82 B
83 B
84 B
85 D
86 b
87 C
88 D
89 A
90 B
91 C
92 C
93 B
94 B
95 A
96 B
97 B
98 D
99 A
100 B
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