MH SET 2011: 7 August, 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. The phrase “Fair is foul” is associated 4. Chaucer’s pilgrims were going to the
with : shrine of :
(A) The Alchemist (A) St. Thomas à Beckett
(B) Macbeth (B) St. Peter
(C) St. Michael
(C) The Malcontent
(D) St. George
(D) The Broken Heart
5. “To His Coy Mistress” is by :
2. Helen appears in :
(A) Donne
(A) Dr Faustus
(B) Quarles
(B) The Spanish Tragedy
(C) Herbert
(C) Women Beware Women
(D) Marvell
(D) The Duchess of Malfi
6. Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
3. Ferdinand is a character in : was first published in :
(A) The Tempest (A) 1582
(B) The White Devil (B) 1668
(C) A Women Killed with Kindness (C) 1821
(D) A New Way to Pay Old Debts (D) 1764
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7. Which of the following works by 10. The Yahoos feature in :
Milton is an elegy ? (A) The Marriage of Heaven and
(A) Samson Agonistes Hell
(B) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) Lycidas
(C) A Journal of the Plague Year
(C) Paradise Regained
(D) The Vicar of Wakefield
(D) Il Penseroso
11. Which one of the following poets
8. Which of the following works was wrote in an antique vocabulary
written by Bacon ? going back three centuries ?
(A) Blake
(A) The Anatomy of Melancholy
(B) Cowper
(B) The Advancement of Learning
(C) Gray
(C) Utopia
(D) Chatterton
(D) The Courtier
12. Which of the following poets wrote
9. Ben Jonson is known for :
in the Scottish Dialect ?
(A) The comedy of manners
(A) Sir Walter Scott
(B) The comedy of humours (B) Robert Burns
(C) Sentimental comedy (C) William Blake
(D) Pastoral comedy (D) George Crabbe
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16. The Biblical character that figures
13. “The Vanity of Human Wishes” is
in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
by :
is :
(A) Thackeray
(A) Ahab
(B) Fielding
(B) Susanna
(C) Johnson
(C) Ruth
(D) Goldsmith
(D) Mary Magdalene
14. Pope’s Satires and Epistles are 17. Which of the following is an
imitations of : autobiographical poem ?
(A) Horace (A) ‘The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner’
(B) Virgil
(B) ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’
(C) Homer
(C) The Prelude
(D) Juvenal
(D) Don Juan
15. Which of the following works is NOT
18. “Ode To The West Wind” was
by Jane Austen ?
written by :
(A) Sense and Sensibility
(A) Shelley
(B) Northanger Abbey
(B) Keats
(C) Rebecca
(C) Byron
(D) Emma (D) Southey
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19. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria is
22. “Poetry is a criticism of life”, says :
a reply to :
(A) Philip Sidney
(A) Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
(B) Matthew Arnold
(B) Lamb’s Tales From Shakespeare
(C) Wordsworth’s ‘Preface’ to The (C) Willian Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads (D) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Johnson’s Preface to
23. Michael Henchard is a character
Shakespeare
in :
20. The title Far From The Madding
(A) Richardson’s Clarissa
Crowd is taken from :
(A) Pope’s Rape of the Lock (B) Fanny Burney’s Evelina
(B) Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a (C) Hardy’s The Mayor of
Country Churchyard’ Casterbridge
(C) Dryden’s Religio Laici (D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
(D) Cowper’s The Task
24. “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert
21. Which of the following works is NOT
Browning is :
by Gerard Manley Hopkins ?
(A) an ode
(A) The Dynasts
(B) a ballad
(B) “God’s Grandeur”
(C) “Pied Beauty” (C) a dramatic monologue
(D) “Felix Randal” (D) an elegy
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28. The term “epiphany” is particularly
25. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”
associated with :
contains a reference to the legend
of : (A) Charles Dickens
(A) Hercules (B) Theodore Dreiser
(B) Icarus (C) James Joyce
(C) Atlas (D) Margaret Mitchell
(D) Oedipus 29. “In the room the women come and go
26. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Talking of Michelangelo” is
Are full of passionate intensity” from :
occurs in a poem by : (A) The Waste Land
(A) Ezra Pound (B) “The Love Song of J. Alfred
(B) W.B. Yeats Prufrock”
(C) “The Hollow Men”
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) “The Journey of the Magi”
(D) T.S. Eliot
30. Crow is a book of poems by :
27. “Little Gidding” forms a part of :
(A) Ted Hughes
(A) The Prelude
(B) Philip Larkin
(B) Don Juan
(C) e e cummings
(C) Four Quartets
(D) Kingsley Amis
(D) Caliban Upon Setebos
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31. Which of the following is NOT a 34. The author of Clockwork Orange is :
dystopia ?
(A) Doris Lessing
(A) Animal Farm
(B) Anthony Burgess
(B) Brave New World
(C) Iris Murdoch
(C) 1984
(D) Angela Carter
(D) The Way of All Flesh
35. The title Midnight’s Children relates
32. Which of the following playwrights to :
has reworked material from Hamlet
(A) 1857
in one of his plays ?
(B) 1947
(A) Tom Stoppard
(C) 1965
(B) John Whiting
(D) 1971
(C) Terence Rattigan
36. Celie is a character in Alice
(D) Christopher Fry Walker’s :
33. William Golding is the author of : (A) The Colour Purple
(A) The Coral Island (B) The Third Life of Grant
(B) Lucky Jim Copeland
(C) The Inheritors (C) The Temple of My Familiars
(D) After the Fall (D) Meridian
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37. Who amongst the following was a 40. A Dance of the Forests is a play by :
“Transcendentalist” ?
(A) Chinua Achebe
(A) Emerson
(B) Wole Soyinka
(B) Mark Twain
(C) Gloria Naylor
(C) Hawthorne
(D) Richard Wright
(D) Dreiser
41. Which of the following belongs to the
38. Ramaswami is the central character
school of New Criticism ?
in :
(A) Kanthapura (A) Cleanth Brooks
(B) The Serpent and the Rope (B) John Dryden
(C) The Cat and Shakespeare (C) Murray Krieger
(D) Comrade Kirillov
(D) W.H. Auden
39. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s
42. Structuralism owes its origin to :
Tale is :
(A) Jacques Lacan
(A) A romantic novel
(B) Noam Chomsky
(B) A dystopian novel
(C) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) a novel using magic realism
(D) a picaresque novel (D) Homi Bhabha
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43. Which of the following is NOT a
47. The Spenserian stanza has :
feminist writer ?
(A) Six lines
(A) Héléne Cixous
(B) Seven lines
(B) Kate Millett
(C) Eight lines
(C) Elaine Showalter
(D) Nine lines
(D) Barbara Cartland
48. Which of the following is an example
44. The term ‘Apocryphal’ refers to : of Synecdoche ?
(A) Works wrongly attributed to an (A) ‘The fair breeze blew, the white
foam flew’
author
(B) ‘Give us this day our daily
(B) Minor works of an author bread’
(C) Lost works of an author (C) ‘A little more than Kin, and less
(D) Collaborative work done by an than Kind’
author (D) ‘A little learning is a dangerous
thing’
45. “Is There a Text in This Class ?” is
49. What is the basic metre of the
written by ?
following line ?
(A) Paul Ricoeur ‘And the sheen of their spears was
(B) J. Hillis Miller like stars on the sea.”
(C) Julia Kristeva (A) iambic
(B) trochee
(D) Stanley Fish
(C) dactyl
46. Eliot’s phrase ‘objective correlative’
(D) anapaest
occurs in his essay on :
50. The rhyme scheme of the
(A) Metaphysical poets Shakespearean sonnet is :
(B) Hamlet (A) abba abba cdcdcd
(C) ‘Tradition and the Individual (B) abab cdcd efefgg
Talent’ (C) abab bcbc cdcdee
(D) ‘Milton’ (D) abab abab abcabc
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