MH SET 2011: 27 November, Paper II, English
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Paper II
Time Allowed : 75 Minutes] [Maximum Marks : 100
Note : This Paper contains Fifty (50) multiple choice questions, each question
carrying Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
1. Which class does not provide any 4. “Is this the dagger which I see before
character in Chaucer’s “Prologue” to me”, these words are said by :
The Canterbury Tales ? (A) Hamlet
(A) The Nobility (B) Macbeth
(B) The Trading Class (C) Richard II
(C) The Clergy (D) Henry IV
(D) The Artisan Class 5. Identify the play which is open to
2. The lyric “Come live with me and post-colonial reading :
be my love” was written by : (A) Macbeth
(A) William Shakespeare (B) Henry IV Part I
(B) Ben Jonson (C) The Tempest
(C) Christopher Marlowe (D) The Winter’s Tale
(D) Samuel Daniel 6. Identify the author of “I wonder, by
3. Which of the following works is a my troth, what thou and I did, till
collection of sonnets ? we lov’d” :
(A) Epithalamion (A) George Wither
(B) Amoretti (B) Andrew Marvell
(C) The Shepherd’s Calendar (C) John Donne
(D) Colin Clout’s Come home again (D) Robert Greene
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7. Identify the classical tragedy from 10. In which novel of Fielding the hero
the following : and the heroine are based on
(A) Samson Agonistes Fielding and his first wife ?
(B) Lycidas (A) Tom Jones
(C) Il Penseroso (B) Joseph Andrews
(D) Comus (C) Amelia
8. Which of the following is the earliest (D) Jonathan Wild the Great
practitioner of the Comedy of 11. The first major English Dictionary
Manners ? was compiled by :
(A) Congreve (A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Wycherley (B) Ben Jonson
(C) Etherege (C) Addison
(D) Farquhar (D) Richard Steele
9. Identify the Comedy of Humours 12. Elegy Written in a Country
from the following : Churchyard mourns the death of :
(A) The Alchemist (A) James Thomson
(B) The Man of Mode (B) Soldiers
(C) The Old Bachelor (C) The Common Man
(D) The Gentleman Dancing Master (D) Cowper
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13. Which work of Browning deals with 16. Queen Mab was written by :
the murder of a young wife,
(A) P. B. Shelley
Pompilia ?
(A) Fra Lippo Lippi (B) J. Keats
(B) Andrea del Sarto (C) R. Southey
(C) Rabbi Ben Ezra (D) G. G. Byron
(D) The Ring and the Book
17. In Jane Austen’s novel Emma,
14. Who amongst the following wrote
Emma falls in love with :
Gothic Novels ?
(A) Knightley
(A) Laurence Sterne
(B) John Fairfax
(B) Tobias Smollett
(C) Daniel Defoe (C) Colonel Fitzwilliams
(D) Ann Radcliffe (D) Thomas Bertram
15. Who has written the following lines 18. The poem The Lady of the Lake is
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive
written by :
But to be young was very heaven” ?
(A) Tennyson
(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
(B) J. Keats
(C) Scott
(C) G. G. Byron
(D) W. Wordsworth (D) Byron
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19. Confessions of an Opium Eater is 22. Which character in Middlemarch is
written by :
an idealist ?
(A) De Quincey
(A) Dr. Lydgate
(B) Coleridge
(B) Mr. Farebrother
(C) Hazlitt
(C) Fred Vincy
(D) Leigh Hunt
20. The name of the mad woman in Jane (D) Caleb Garth
Eyre is :
23. Thomas Hardy’s Dynasts is a :
(A) Mrs. Reed
(A) A Collection of Lyrics
(B) Adele
(B) A Play
(C) Bertha Mason
(C) A Novel
(D) Mrs. Fairfax
(D) An Epic Poem
21. Which of the following novels of
Charles Dickens has auto 24. Idea of a University is written by :
biographical elements ?
(A) Cardinal Newman
(A) David Copperfield
(B) Carlyle
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) Ruskin
(C) Hard Times
(D) Bleak House (D) Arnold
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25. What is Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s 28. Which Irish author has frequently
Profession about ? included the mythical figure of
Cuchulain in his works ?
(A) Child Labour
(A) J. M. Synge
(B) Prostitution
(B) W. B. Yeats
(C) Contemporary Politics
(C) Sean O’ Casey
(D) Science Fantasy
(D) James Joyce
26. Who is Galsworthy’s Man of
29. In which novel did Conrad first
Property ?
introduce his technique of ‘oblique
(A) Bosinney
narrative’ ?
(B) Jolyon (A) The Nigger of Narcissus
(C) Larry (B) Lord Jim
(D) Soames (C) Heart of Darkness
27. T. S. Eliot’s play The Family Reunion (D) Kangaroo
takes as its model a Greek play 30. The notion of “collective unconscious”
entitled : was developed by :
(A) Agamemnon (A) Carl Jung
(B) Antigone (B) Freud
(C) Hippolytus (C) Lacan
(D) Eumenides (D) Adler
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31. The Craft of Fiction is written by : 35. The novel Saturday Night and
Sunday Morning is written by :
(A) Cleanth Brooks
(A) Allan Sillitoe
(B) Henry James
(B) John Braine
(C) Percy Lubbock
(C) Kingsley Amis
(D) E. M. Forster
(D) John Wain
32. “Snowball” is a character in :
36. The novels of Iris Murdoch deal
(A) Animal Farm with :
(B) Gulliver’s Travels (A) Existentialism
(C) The Pilgrim’s Progress (B) Marxism
(D) Robinson Crusoe (C) Theology
33. Joey is a character in Harold (D) Spiritualism
Pinter’s : 37. The sub-title of Moby Dick is :
(A) The Caretaker (A) The Angel Whale
(B) The Homecoming (B) The Whale Bone
(C) The Room (C) The Whale Under the Sea
(D) The Dumb Waiter (D) The White Whale
34. Which landscape is described in Ted 38. The poem Passage to India is
Hughes’ poetry ? written by :
(A) Lancashire (A) Walt Whitman
(B) Carl Sandburg
(B) Yorkshire
(C) Robert Frost
(C) Surrey
(D) R. W. Emerson
(D) Derbyshire
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39. Wedding Album is a play written 42. “Can the Subaltern Speak” is a
treatise written by :
by :
(A) Gayatri Spivak
(A) Girish Karnad
(B) Homi Bhabha
(B) Manjula Padmanabhan
(C) Aijaz Ahmed
(C) Mahesh Dattani
(D) Edward Said
(D) Makarand Sathe 43. ‘New Historicism’ was propounded
40. The poem The Sunshine Cat is by :
written by : (A) Greenblatt
(B) Bakhtin
(A) Mamta Kalia
(C) Wimsatt
(B) Gauri Deshpande
(D) Eagleton
(C) Meena Alexander
44. Preface to Shakespeare is :
(D) Kamala Das
(A) Introduction to the first folio of
41. Which of the following Caribbean Shakespeare’s plays
writers has got the Nobel Prize ? (B) An introduction to
Shakespeare’s tragedies
(A) Kenneth Ramchand
(C) Dr. Samuel Johnson’s essay on
(B) Derek Walcott
Shakespeare
(C) Shiva Naipaul
(D) A commentary on Ben Jonson’s
(D) Wilson Harris views on Shakespeare
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45. “Land and sea 47. An image is :
Give themselves up to jollity (A) a direct comparison
(B) a vague metaphor
And with the heart of May
(C) a mental picture of an object
Doth every beast keep holiday.”
(D) a subtle repetition
These lines exemplify :
48. “Womanism” is a term introduced
(A) Pathetic Fallacy by :
(A) Marge Piercy
(B) Transferred Epithet
(B) Toni Morrison
(C) Simile
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Synecdoche
(D) Audre Lorde
46. “Cannon to right of them 49. The central concept of
‘existentialism’ is :
Cannon to left of them
(A) rejection of pessimism
Cannon in front of them
(B) a realisation of nothingness
Volleyed and thundered.”
(C) acceptance of predeterminism
The dominant metre in these lines (D) protest against fatalism
is : 50. T. S. Eliot showed the manuscript
of The Wasteland to :
(A) Dactyl
(A) Ezra Pound
(B) Iamb
(B) R. W. Emerson
(C) Amphibrach
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Trochee (D) James Frazer
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