MH SET 2013: 17 February, Paper III, English
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English
Paper III
Time Allowed : 2½ Hours] [Maximum Marks : 150
Note : This Paper contains Seventy five (75) multiple choice questions. Each
question carries Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
Read the following passage carefully 2. In ‘what word wisest’, we have an
and choose the most appropriate example of :
alternatives to answer the questions
(A) transferred epithet
given below it :
(B) distortion of form
Only what word,
(C) inversion
Wisest my heart breeds dark
(D) repetition
heaven’s bafling ban
3. The expression ‘a lonely began’
Bars or hell’s spell thwarts. This
is :
to hoard unheard,
(A) only semantically odd
Heard unheeded, leaves me a
(B) only syntactically odd
lonely began.
(C) syntactically normal
1. The expression ‘what word wisest’
(D) a poetic deviation
and the words at the end of the lines
‘word’, ‘ban’, ‘unheard’ and ‘began’ 4. Which sounds are repeated in the
are examples respectively of : poem ?
(A) rhyme and alliteration (A) /w/, /b/, /l/, /d/ and /h/
(B) alliteration and rhyme (B) /w/, /n/, /r/ and /l/
(C) assonance and rhyme (C) /t/, /g/, /f/ and /st/
(D) rhyme and personification (D) /l/, /k/, /g/ and /z/
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5. The overall feeling that one gets 8. There is no fool in the following play
from the lines is that of : of Shakespeare :
(A) Macbeth
(A) anger
(B) Othello
(B) frustration
(C) King Lear
(C) joy
(D) Antony and Cleopatra
(D) quietude
9. Who among the following does not
6. Who was Sycorax ?
form a part of the University
(A) The mother of Caliban Wits ?
(B) A witch in Macbeth (A) John Lyly
(C) The maid in The Winter’s (B) Thomas Kyd
Tale (C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) The wife of Cassius (D) David Green
10. Identify the poet who wrote the
7. Troylus and Criseyde was half
lines ‘Sweet Thames, run softly
translated/half adapted from :
till I end my song’ :
(A) Il Filostrato
(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) Decameron
(B) Philip Sidney
(C) Divina Commedia
(C) Samuel Daniel
(D) La Vita Nuova (D) George Chapman
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11. Ralph Roister Doister is considered 14. Satan is a grand figure in Milton’s
to be the first regular English : Paradise Lost :
(A) Book I
(A) Comedy
(B) Books III and IV
(B) Tragedy
(C) Book IX
(C) Novel
(D) Books X, XI and XII
(D) Epic
15. Comedy of Humours was best
12. Milton Samson is a/an :
developed in :
(A) Romantic hero (A) The plays of Shakespeare
(B) Tragic hero (B) The plays of Sheridan
(C) Comic hero (C) The plays of Ben Jonson
(D) Anti-hero (D) The plays of Molière
16. Avoiding extravagance and
13. Francis Bacon’s style can be
emotionalism was characteristic of
described as :
the age of :
(A) Aphoristic
(A) Chaucer
(B) Discursive
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Picturesque
(C) Milton
(D) Bare (D) Dryden
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19. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s does
17. In the Essay on Criticism, Alexander
not deal with .................
Pope deals with .....................
(A) Man’s struggle with sin
(A) The merits and limitations of (B) Life as a journey
the 18th Century poetry (C) The reality of his time
(D) Developments in England
(B) The merits and limitations of
20. Which chronological order of
18th Century criticism
Wycherley’s plays is correct ?
(C) The merits and limitations of (A) Love in a Wood—The
18th Century drama Gentleman Dancing Master—
The Country Wife—The Plain
(D) The merits and limitations of
Dealer
18th century prose (B) Love in a Wood—The Country
Wife—The Plain Dealer—The
18. The play The Good Natured Man
Gentleman Dancing Master
is ..........................
(C) Love in a Wood—The Plain
(A) A comedy of humours Dealer—The Country Wife—The
Gentleman Dancing
(B) A comedy of manners
Master
(C) A sentimental comedy (D) The Plain Dealer—Love in a
Wood—The Country Wife—The
(D) An anti-sentimental comedy
Gentleman Dancing Master
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21. Which romantic poet skilfully blends 23. In which poem of Keats, Milton’s
influence is quite visible ?
medieval life with commonplace
(A) Hyperion
everyday life of his days ?
(B) Endymion
(A) William Blake (C) Lamia
(D) Isabella
(B) William Wordsworth
24. Identify the poet who was concerned
(C) John Keats with ‘‘Spots of Time’’ :
(A) Coleridge
(D) S.T. Coleridge
(B) Walter Scott
22. The genius of Charles Lamb as
(C) Wordsworth
an essayist lies in his power (D) Robert Southey
of ......................... 25. Who named the school ‘metaphysical
poets’ to John Donne’s contemporary
(A) Satirizing the society poets ?
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) Describing the beauty of nature
(B) John Dryden
(C) Philosophising the ideas
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Visualizing memories (D) Mathew Arnold
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26. Which novel of Jane Austen 28. Richardson’s works appeared in the
following order :
was published after her
(A) Pamela—Clarissa—Sir Charles
death ?
Grandison
(A) Mansfield Park (B) Pamela—Sir Charles Grandison
—Clarissa
(B) Persuasion
(C) Clarissa—Sir Charles Grandison
(C) Lady Susan
—Pamela
(D) Emma (D) Clarissa—Pamela—Sir Charles
Grandison
27. Hardy’s first published novel
29. Which of the following characters
is ............
does not appear in Tristram
(A) The Return of the Native Shandy ?
(A) Corporal Brim
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(B) Doctor Slop
(C) Desperate Remedies
(C) Uncle Toby
(D) The Trumpet Major (D) Narcissa
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30. The Jacobite rising of 1745 is 32. From among the following modern
dealt with by Walter Scott
writers, identify the writer who
in ..............
used myths extensively in his
(A) Antiquary
writing :
(B) Guy Mannering
(A) T.S. Eliot
(C) Waverley
(B) W.B. Yeats
(D) Rob Roy
(C) Ezra Pound
31. Which of the following literary text
(D) W.H. Auden
was not written by James
Joyce ? 33. Which is the non-fictional work of
Virginia Woolf ?
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man (A) To The Lighthouse
(B) Ulysses (B) Mrs. Dalloway
(C) Finnegans Wake
(C) Modern Fiction
(D) The Island
(D) Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
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34. J.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea has 37. Animal imagery pervades the poems
................. act(s).
of :
(A) one
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) two
(C) three (B) Sylvia Plath
(D) five (C) Philip Larkin
35. Identify D.H. Lawrence’s novel
(D) Seamus Heaney
which is not set in a Colliery
38. Waiting for Godot includes :
background :
(A) Sons and Lovers (A) two boys
(B) The Rainbow (B) one boy
(C) Women in Love
(C) two boys out of whom one
(D) The Plummed Serpent
denies the existence of the
36. The Birthday Party does not deal
other
with :
(D) one boy according to the list of
(A) Birth Trauma
characters but two boys
(B) Oedipus Complex
according to Estragon and one
(C) Betrayal and Punishment
boy according to Vladimir
(D) Religious Conflict
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39. In Lucky Jim Kingsley Arms 41. Aristotle defines in Poetics :
narrates : (A) Short story
(A) The prosperity of Jim (B) Tragedy
(C) Delight
(B) The successful life of Jim
(D) Novel
(C) The advantages of the life at
42. New Aestheticism was a rebellion
universities
against ...................
(D) The sardonic picture of life in
(A) Conservatism of the Victorians
a university
(B) Intuitionism
40. John Osborne in Deja Vu
(C) Romanticism
revisits the central characters
(D) Humanism
in :
43. Identify from the following a novel
(A) Look Back in Anger
that deals with the Jazz Age :
(B) Inadmissible Evidence
(A) A Farewell to Arms
(C) A Subject of Scandal and (B) The Sound and the Fury
Concern
(C) The Great Gatsby
(D) A Patriot for Me (D) Mainstreet
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44. ‘Humanity seems to have changed 46. Deconstruction consists in ..................
around 1890’ was an observation (A) Revealing and subverting the
texts
of ......................
(B) Historical study of texts
(A) T.S. Eliot
(C) Social study of texts
(B) Ezra Pound (D) Linguistic study of texts
(C) Virginia Woolf 47. Cultural criticism is developed
by :
(D) James Joyce
(A) Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak
45. The ‘touchstone method’ meant (B) Raymond Williams
comparing a work of art with (C) Fredric Jameson
acknowledged great works of art (D) Peter Demetz
and the concept was developed 48. The distinction between the signifier
and the signifee, between associative
by :
and syntagmatic relations was made
(A) Keats by :
(A) Noam Chosky
(B) Mathew Arnold
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(C) Bloomfield
(D) T.S. Eliot (D) Firth
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49. The main advocate of deconstruction 51. The Direct method of teaching a
is : language insists on :
(A) Self-learning
(A) Martin Heidegaar
(B) The use of the target language
(B) Paul de Man
in the classroom
(C) Gadamer
(C) Translation as an important
(D) Jacques Derrida activity
50. Base—superstructure relationship, (D) The use of audio-visual aids in
the classroom
unity of opposites, negation of
52. Guided composition involves ..............
negation are the important
(A) Dictating a piece of
principles of :
composition
(A) Formalism
(B) Supplying a model text
(B) Reception theory
(C) Providing points
(C) Marxist literary criticism
(D) Making available questions
(D) Sociological criticism previously asked
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53. Which of the following does not have 55. Interrelated languages are
any influence on the learning of metaphorically said to belong to the
English in India ?
same ...................... of languages.
(A) The learner’s attitude
(A) Branch
(B) The attitude of the second
(B) Family
language community
(C) Community
(C) The teacher’s attitude
(D) Group
(D) The attitude of the first
56. In Camus’ novel The Outsider (or
language community
The Stranger) :
54. The process of language acquisition
begins ................... (A) The sun is oppressive
(A) At the age of 6 months (B) The sun is benign
(B) During adolescence (C) The sun provides the much
(C) When a child joins a school needed warmth
(D) During infancy (D) Women do sun-bathing
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57. Baudelaire’s poem ‘Flowers of Evil’ 59. Which one from the following is a
influenced : 17th century French play
(A) Symbolist poetry that is open to a feminist
(B) Expressionist poetry interpretation ?
(C) War poetry (A) Le Cid (The Cid)
(D) Movement poetry (B) Phèdre (Phaedre)
58. Which of the following statements (C) L’Avarre (The Miser)
about Sophocles’ Antigone is not
(D) Tartuffe
true ?
60. The man who tries to blackmail
(A) Antigone is a feminist
Nora in Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’
(B) Antigone does not love
is .......................
Haemon
(A) Dr. Rank
(C) The play dramatizes a conflict
(B) Bernick
between human law and Divine
law (C) Krogsted
(D) Ismene is a foil to Antigone (D) Kroll
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61. Cacoon is a novel by : 64. Which Indian dramatist has formed
a theatre group ?
(A) Pannalal Patel
(A) Mahesh Dattani
(B) Bhalchandra Nemade
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) Kamaleshwar
(C) Badal Sircar
(D) Nirmal Verma
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
62. ‘I am an Indian poet writing
in English.’ Who made this 65. Which Indian author denies that
statement ? she is a feminist ?
(A) Arun Kolatkar (A) Gauri Deshpande
(B) Kamala Das (B) Kamala Markandeya
(C) Nissim Ezekiel (C) Kamala Das
(D) Keki Daruwallah (D) Shashi Deshpande
63. The subplot in ‘Anna Karenina’ is 66. Who has described India as a
the story of : ‘Continent of Circe’ ?
(A) Levin and Kitty (A) Nirad Chaudhari
(B) Sliva and Dolly (B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Vorenue and Koznishev (C) Khushwant Singh
(D) Anna and Vronski (D) Girish Karnad
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67. Which literary genre is the strongest
69. Identify the novel which has more
in non-British English Literature ?
than two narrators :
(A) Fiction
(A) The Turn of the Screw
(B) Poetry
(B) Ambassadors
(C) Drama
(D) Non-fictional prose (C) The Portrait of a Lady
68. Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s River Between (D) Daisy Miller
deals with :
70. The great American autobiography
(A) The cultural conflict
of the colonial period was written
between the natives and the
by :
outsiders
(B) The terrible conflict in Kenya (A) Cotton Mather
(C) The adverse impact of
(B) Benjamin Franklin
industrialization
(C) Thomas Jefferson
(D) Socio-cultural unrest in Kenya
due to colonizers (D) Washington Irving
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71. Faucault’s ‘panoptical’ state of affairs 73. T.S. Eliot developed the notion
shows : of :
(A) A world in which we are under (A) Imagination
constant surveillance and we (B) Creativity
constantly monitor ourselves for
(C) Tradition
signs of abnormality
(D) Genius
(B) A world that is at war with
74. The concept of intertextuality was
itself
developed well by :
(C) A world divided by political,
(A) Lacan
social and cultural diversities
(B) Kristeva
(D) A world suffering from plague
(C) Derrida
and leprosy
(D) Wayne Booth
72. Primacy of theory, decentering the
subject, reading of the text, discourse 75. Levi-Strauss, Jean Piaget and
in the text are four important Saussure are regarded as pioneers
principles of .................. of :
(A) Modern criticism
(A) Structuralism
(B) Reception theory
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Structuralism
(C) Historicism
(D) Stylistics
(D) Reader-response theory
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