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MH SET 2018: 28 January, Paper III, English

  • Date: 28 January 2018
  • Paper code: JAN03318
  • Series: A
  • Language: English
  • 20 pages
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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 poem carefully and answer
    the questions (1 to 4) below it :           1.   What does the rose symbolise ?

        Go, lovely Rose !
                                                     (A) time
    Tell her, that wastes her time and
                                   me,
        That now she knows,                          (B) love
    When I resemble her to thee,
    How sweet and fair she seems to be.              (C) valour
        Tell her that’s young
    And shuns to have her graces spied,
                                                     (D) death
        That hadst thou sprung
    In deserts where no men abide,
                                                2.   How is the beloved compared to the
    Thou must have uncommended died.
        Small is the worth
                                                     rose ?
    Of beauty from the light retired :
        Bid her come forth,
                                                     (A) as fair as a rose
    Suffer herself to be desired,
    And not blish so to be admired.
                                                     (B) as dull as a desert
        Then die ! that she
    The common fate of all things rare
        May read in thee :                           (C) a source of spying

    How small a part of time they share

    That are so wondrous sweet and fair !            (D) unglorified death

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                                                5.   Lucius is an ordinary character
3.   Why are ‘her graces spied’ ?
                                                     created by William Shakespeare for

     (A) because the beloved is cruel                the historical play :

                                                     (A) Richard II

     (B) because they spring from desert             (B) Pericles

                                                     (C) Julius Caesar
     (C) because they live for a short
                                                     (D) Coriolanus

         time                                   6.   The following lines are spoken by

                                                     which one of the following characters
     (D) because people don’t like them              in Julius Caesar by William Shakes-

                                                     peare ?
4.   What    is   the   fate   of   small
                                                     ‘‘Stop, then and wash. How many

                                                                              ages hence
     beauties ?
                                                     Shall this lofty scene be acted o’er.

     (A) They suffer unnecessarily                   In states unborn and accents yet

                                                                              unknowns.

     (B) They feel bleshed                           (A) Brutus

                                                     (B) Cassius
     (C) They are rare
                                                     (C) Casca

     (D) They vanish quickly                         (D) Cina

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7.   Identify the text below in which the        9.   In which play of Shakespeare does


     character, ‘‘Man with the Muck                   the line ‘‘What a piece of work is

     Rake’’ features :
                                                      man’’ occur ?


     (A) Gulliver’s Travels
                                                      (A) King Lear

     (B) The Unfortunate Traveller
                                                      (B) Macbeth

     (C) The Canterbury Tales
                                                      (C) Hamlet

     (D) The Pilgrim’s Progress
                                                      (D) Antony and Cleopatra

8.   In which of the following essays does
                                                 10. Thomas Carew belongs to the group
     T.S. Eliot use the term ‘‘objective

                                                      of poets called :
     correlative’’ ?

                                                      (A) Metaphysical poets
     (A) The Function of Criticism


                                                      (B) Cavalier poets
     (B) The Frontiers of Criticism


     (C) Metaphysical Poets                           (C) Elizabethan poets


     (D) Hamlet and His Problems                      (D) Classical poets

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11. Which of the following is not written       13. The British literary and society

    by John Cleveland ?
                                                    journal ‘The Tatler’ was founded by :

    (A) ‘‘An Elegy on Ben Jonson’’
                                                    (A) Richard Steele

    (B) ‘‘Mark Antony’’
                                                    (B) Joseph Addison

    (C) ‘‘The Rebel Scot’’
                                                    (C) Thomas Adams

    (D) ‘‘The Wish’’
                                                    (D) Richard Adams
12. ‘‘I love everything that is old; old
                                                14. The conceit used by John Donne in
    friends, old times, old manners, old

                                                    ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’
    books, old wines.’’

                                                    is :
    This sentence is taken from :

                                                    (A) the moving earth
    (A) The Vicar of Wakefield

                                                    (B) lover’s love
    (B) She Stoops to Conquer


    (C) The Citizen of the World                    (C) trepidation of the spheres


    (D) The Good-Natur’d Man                        (D) twin compasses

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15. About Samuel Richardson’s creation          17. Who is the author of Life of Henry

    of the character of Clarissa, who
                                                    VIII ?
    swore that ‘‘if she should die,

    he would no longer believe in                   (A) John Rushworth


    providence’’ ?
                                                    (B) John Thurloe

    (A) Laurence Sterne
                                                    (C) Lord Herbert of Cherbury
    (B) Tobias Smollett

                                                    (D) James Howell
    (C) Sir Roger de Coverley


    (D) Colley Cibber                           18. About revolution in France who said


16. The Interesting Narrative of the Life           that it was ‘‘Mother of all evils !’’ ?


    of Olaudah Equiano is :
                                                    (A) Edmund Burke

    (A) A tribal narrative
                                                    (B) Philip Dormer
    (B) A fairy tale

                                                    (C) John Rushworth
    (C) A slave narrative


    (D) An American Indian narrative                (D) Roger North

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19. One of the powerful weapons of Jane       21. On which poet’s epitaph are the

    Austen’s narrative art is :                   words engraved, ‘Here lies one whose


    (A) verbosity                                 name was writ in water’ ?


    (B) irony                                     (A) Shelley


    (C) magical realism                           (B) Wordsworth


    (D) musicality                                (C) Lord Byron


20. In which poem of Wordsworth, the              (D) John Keats


    following lines occur ?                   22. In a celebrated preface this author


    For oft, when on my couch I lie/in            wrote, ‘Above all, this book is not


    vacant or in pensive mood/They                concerned with poetry. The subject


    flash upon that inward eye/which is           of it is war, and the pity of war.’ Who


    the bliss of solitude.’’                      is he ?


    (A) ‘‘We are seven’’                          (A) Wilfred Owen


    (B) ‘‘Daffodils’’                             (B) Julian Grenfell


    (C) ‘‘Lucy Gray’’                             (C) Sigfried Sassoon


    (D) The ‘‘Solitary Reaper’’                   (D) Maurice Cornford

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23. Which of the following writers has       25. Which of the following writers has


    created the characters Lucky and             created the character, Jimmy Porter ?


    Pozzo ?
                                                 (A) John Osborne


    (A) Harold Pinter
                                                 (B) Harold Pinter


    (B) John Osborne
                                                 (C) Arnold Whisker


    (C) Samuel Beckett
                                                 (D) Samuel Beckett


    (D) Eugene Ionesco                                              Death    in   the
                                             26. Hemingway’s


24. In which kingdom did Oedipus                 Afternoon deals with the subject


    rule ?                                       of :


    (A) Ithaca                                   (A) cockfighting


    (B) Thebes                                   (B) bullfighting


    (C) Athens                                   (C) wrestling


    (D) Sparta                                   (D) shooting

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27. Who is the author of Cry, the Beloved        29. Which of the following novels deals


    Country ?                                        with the subject of Sepoy Mutinee


                                                     of 1857 ?
    (A) Nadine Gordimer

                                                     (A) The Siege of Krishnapur
    (B) Alan Paton

                                                     (B) A Passage to India
    (C) Wole Soyinka

                                                     (C) Kim
    (D) Alex La Guma
                                                     (D) Coolie

28. The journal The Atlantic Monthly
                                                 30. Who wrote the story ‘‘The Fall of the

    was founded by :
                                                     House of Usher’’ ?

    (A) James Russell Lowell
                                                     (A) Edgar Allan Poe


    (B) Washington Irving
                                                     (B) Washington Irving


    (C) Oliver Wendell Holmes                        (C) H.W. Longfellow


    (D) Henry James                                  (D) O. Henry

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31. Who is the author of the novel             33. Samuel Butler’s novel ‘The way of


                                                   all flesh’ is..............in character.
    The Diviners ?

                                                   (A) Picaresque
    (A) Margaret Atwood

                                                   (B) Historical
    (B) Maria Campbell
                                                   (C) Autobiographical

    (C) Jane Rule
                                                   (D) Biographical

    (D) Margaret Laurence
                                               34. ‘Pathetic Fallacy’, a term invented


32. In which of Hemingway’s novels does            by John Ruskin, stands for :


    the protagonist, Santiago appear ?             (A) strong feeling of pathos


                                                   (B) fallacy pathetically felt
    (A) For Whom the Bell Tolls

                                                   (C) attributing human feelings and
    (B) The Sun Also Rises
                                                        actions to natural objects

    (C) The Old Man and the Sea
                                                   (D) elemental simplicity in human

    (D) A Farewell to Arms                              beings

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35. Which one of the following poems             37. Hermeneutics was originally the

    represents the Victorian ethos for
                                                     science of interpreting :

    optimism at its best ?
                                                     (A) fiction

    (A) ‘‘Ulysses’’
                                                     (B) poetry

    (B) ‘‘Sordello’’
                                                     (C) drama
    (C) ‘‘In Memoriam’’

                                                     (D) scripture
    (D) ‘‘Dover Beach’’

                                                 38. Raymond Williams is considered to
36. Who said, ‘‘Art is twice removed from

                                                     be one of the founders of :
    Reality’’ ?

                                                     (A) cultural studies
    (A) Socrates


                                                     (B) feminist studies
    (B) Plato


    (C) Aristotle                                    (C) semiotic studies



    (D) Longinus                                     (D) psychoanalysis

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39. Who described poetic process as a
                                                  41. John Crowe Ransom is the pioneer

    spontaneous overflow of powerful
                                                      of :

    feelings, recollected in tranquility ?

                                                      (A) New Criticism
    (A) T.S. Eliot

                                                      (B) New Historicism
    (B) F.R. Leavis


    (C) William Wordsworth                            (C) Reception Theory



    (D) Matthew Arnold                                (D) Historical Materialism


40. ‘Nation and Narration’ is authored
                                                  42. Who is the author of Mythologies ?

    by :
                                                      (A) Levi Strauss

    (A) Benedict Anderson

                                                      (B) John Barth
    (B) Homi Bhabha

                                                      (C) Roland Barthes
    (C) Partha Chatterjee


    (D) Ranjit Guha                                   (D) Donald Barthelme

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43. Who is the writer of The Political           46. Who has written the play, Men

    Unconscious ?                                    Without Shadows ?

    (A) Sigmund Freud                                (A) Jean-Paul Sartre

    (B) Carl Jung                                    (B) Albert Camus

    (C) Fredric Jameson                              (C) Louis Aragon

    (D) William James
                                                     (D) Eugene Ionesco

44. ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ is a book
                                                 47. Who is the author of the novel, One
    on the post-colonial theory by one
                                                     Hundred Years of Solitude ?
    of the following authors :
                                                     (A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    (A) Barbara Harlowe
                                                     (B) Carlos Fuentes
    (B) Henry Louis Lates
                                                     (C) Jorge Luis Borges
    (C) Helen Tiffin
                                                     (D) Julio Cortazar
    (D) Frantz Fanon
                                                 48. Who has written the book, Winter
45. Who has defined drama as ‘a just
                                                     in the Blood ?
    and lively image of human nature’ ?

                                                     (A) James Welch
    (A) Aristotle

    (B) Longinus                                     (B) Thomas King

    (C) Dr. Johnson                                  (C) Louise Endrich


    (D) John Dryden                                  (D) Tomson Highway

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49. Who is the author of the novel,        52. The novel, Two Virgins has been

    Song of Solomon ?                          written by :

    (A) Gloria Naylor                          (A) Kamala Markandaya

    (B) Paule Marshall                         (B) Anita Desai


    (C) Toni Morrison                          (C) Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee

                                               (D) Bharati Mukherjee
    (D) Alice Walker
                                           53. Which Indian poet’s autobiography
50. Who is the author of Imaginary
                                               is My Son’s Father ?
    Homelands ?
                                               (A) A.K. Ramanujan
    (A) Salman Rushdie
                                               (B) Dom Moraes
    (B) V.S. Naipaul
                                               (C) Gieve Patel
    (C) Ashis Nandi
                                               (D) Nissim Ezekiel
    (D) Dipesh Chakravorty
                                           54. Point out adjective used by Vijay
51. Who is the author of the novel,
                                               Tendulkar for his Ghashiram
    That Long Silence ?                        Kotwal :

    (A) Manju Kapur                            (A) A history play

    (B) Sashi Deshpande                        (B) The historical play

    (C) Gita Mehta                             (C) a-historical play


    (D) Anita Desai                            (D) the Chronicle play

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55. ‘Godan’ a Hindi novel, translated           58. In English, nouns are generally

    into English was written by :                    accented on :

    (A) Hariwanshray Bacchan                         (A) The second syllable

    (B) Namwar Singh                                 (B) The first syllable

                                                     (C) The middle syllable
    (C) Premchand
                                                     (D) The last syllable
    (D) Arvind Adiga
                                                59. The grammar of a language studies
56. Who among the following wrote the
                                                     the :
    Foreword to Mulk Raj Anand’s
                                                     (A) Sounds of that language
    Untouchable ?
                                                     (B) The classics written in that
    (A) Graham Greene
                                                          language
    (B) W.B. Yeats
                                                     (C) The vocabulary of that language

    (C) T.S. Eliot                                   (D) The sentences and only the

    (D) E.M. Forster                                      well-formed sentences usable in
                                                          that language
57. English uses..............for yes/no
                                                60. ...............is the smallest meaningful
    questions.
                                                     unit of language.
    (A) The rising tone
                                                     (A) The phoneme
    (B) The falling tone
                                                     (B) The morpheme
    (C) The falling rising tone
                                                     (C) The sentence

    (D) The falsetto                                 (D) The phrase

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61. Who, among the following, is not a
                                              64. Dr. Punjabrao Deshmukh’s ‘Origin
    Jnanpeeth awardee ?
                                                  and Development of Religion in
    (A) Gopinath Mohanty
                                                  Vedic Literature’ was translated
    (B) Indira Goswami

                                                  into Marathi by :
    (C) Mahasweta Devi

    (D) Vilas Sarang                              (A) Vilas Sarang

62. Om Prakash Balmiki’s ‘Joothan’ has
                                                  (B) Dilip Chitre
    been translated into English by :

    (A) Girish Karnad                             (C) Anand Patil

    (B) Shanta Gokhale
                                                  (D) Vilas Gitey

    (C) Bikram K. Das
                                              65. Who translated U.R. Anantamurthy’s
    (D) Arun P. Mukherjee
                                                  Samskara into English ?
63. Mahasweta Devi’s ‘‘Draupadi’’ has

    been translated into English by :
                                                  (A) Gillian Wright

    (A) Sujit Mukherjee
                                                  (B) A.K. Ramanujan
    (B) Samik Bandyopadhyaya

    (C) A.K. Ramanujan                            (C) Vijay Tendulkar


    (D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak                (D) Dilip Chitre

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66. Nita Torane’s ‘‘Living’’ contains
                                                 69. The communicative method is also
    multilingual translations of each
                                                     known as :
    poem in a collection from the state :

    (A) Goa                                          (A) the army method

    (B) Maharashtra
                                                     (B) the structuralistic method
    (C) Karnataka

    (D) Kerala                                       (C) the common grammar translation


67. How many diphthongs does English                     method

    use ?
                                                     (D) the audio lingual method
    (A) 12

    (B) 10                                       70. When we use computers to learn a

    (C) 8                                            language it is called :

    (D) 6
                                                     (A) Computer generated programs
68. The following skills are considered

    secondary in ELT :                               (B) Computer assisted language

    (A) reading and writing                              learning

    (B) speaking and writing
                                                     (C) Computer based classroom
    (C) writing and listening

    (D) speaking and writing                         (D) Console based classroom

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71. The questions given below consist of           72. ‘Becket’ was a play written by :

    two statements, an Assertion (A) and               (A) Pirendello

                                                       (B) Jean Anonith
    a Reason (R). Indicate your answer
                                                       (C) T.S. Eliot
    from the alternatives below :
                                                       (D) Arthur Miller
    Assertion (A) : Language learning
                                                   73. Edmund Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’
    is largely based on the application                contains :

    of what is taught or read.                         (A) twenty four books

                                                       (B) twelve cantos
    Reason (R) : It is only through
                                                       (C) a dozen sections
    experimentation that students
                                                       (D) fourteen cantos
    become able practitioners of language.
                                                   74. The narrative poem ‘‘The Book of the
    In the context of the two statements,              Duchess’’ was written by :

    which one of the following is correct ?            (A) Robert Browning

                                                       (B) Geoffrey Chaucer
    (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)
                                                       (C) Stephen Hawe
         is the correct explanation of (A)
                                                       (D) John Skelton
    (B) Both (A) and (R) are true but              75. The myth of Antigony was revived

         (R) is not the correct explanation            by.................after sophocles.

                                                       (A) Jean Anouilh
         of (A)
                                                       (B) T.S. Eliot
    (C) (A) is true but (R) is false
                                                       (C) Strindberg

    (D) (A) is false but (R) is true                   (D) Wole Syonka
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