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MH SET 2020: 27 December, Paper II, English

  • Date: 27 December 2020
  • Paper code: JUN03220
  • Series: A
  • Language: English
  • 20 pages
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                                     English
                                     Paper II


Time Allowed : 120 Minutes]                              [Maximum Marks : 200
Note : This Paper contains Hundred (100) multiple choice questions. Each question
       carrying Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.

Direction (Q. Nos. 1-4) :
                                                 interference and variation in
    Read the passage and answer                  meaning are all avoided. Except
    the questions given below :                  where the original purposely resorts
    Translation is defined as a process          to    polysemy,      homography,
    of finding a target language                 homophony, and synonymy, the
    equivalent for the source language           translated version is generally
    text. In some extreme theoretical            expected to avoid these.
    positions, equivalence is sometimes          The translation should aim at
    defined as the identity of not only          seeking the conceptual equivalents;
    the content but also of the form and         it should define the conceptual
    the processes at various levels of the       equivalents accurately and tender
    linguistic structure in the translated       them in the linguistic terms of the
    material in the target language.             target language. As people begin to
    Equivalence, as we conceive it here,         travel from place to place, from one
    is the transfer of the content to the        country into another for various
    target language in a manner that             pursuits, and as people groups begin
    is acceptable to and considered as           to develop social, cultural and
    the “genius” of the target language.         economic contacts with one another,
    This equivalence must be achieved            the necessity for translation for
    in such a way that ambiguity,                effective communication increases.
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     Multiplicity of languages is a fact         4.   Now there is ................. demand for
     of life in our world. People all over            translation.
     the world may prefer to learn
                                                      (A) no
     English as an additional language
                                                      (B) diminishing
     and to attain some level of
     achievement in that language, and                (C) a little

     yet they would zealously continue                (D) a growing
     to hold on to their own languages           5.   Who coined the phrase ‘Archi-
     for socio-political, cultural and                writing’ ?
     religious reasons.
                                                      (A) Roland Barthes
1.   Equivalence in translation includes :
                                                      (B) Jacques Derrida
     (A) the context
                                                      (C) Edward Said
     (B) the form
                                                      (D) Michel Foucault
     (C) the content, the form and the
         process                                 6.   Look Back in Anger is authored
                                                      by :
     (D) the process
                                                      (A) John Osborne
2.   Translation should be :
     (A) literal                                      (B) Robert Bolt

     (B) ambiguous                                    (C) Samuel Beckett

     (C) variant                                      (D) Harold Pinter

     (D) approximate                             7.   Brides of Reason is the title of a

3.   Translation generally avoids :                   volume of poems authored by :

     (A) multiple meanings                            (A) Ronald Bottrall

     (B) different meanings                           (B) C. Day Lewis
     (C) dissimilar sounds                            (C) Donald Davie
     (D) dissimilar words                             (D) Keith Douglas

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8.   ‘Lead, Kindly Light’, a famous poem       10. In a nasalised sound the air stream :
     in English is written by :
                                                   (A) escapes through the nasal
     (A) Cardinal Newman
                                                        passage only
     (B) P.B. Shelley
                                                   (B) escapes through the oral and
     (C) John Keats
                                                        the       nasal        passage
     (D) George Herbert
                                                        simultaneously
9.   Match the works with the authors
     given below :                                 (C) escapes through the oral
                        List I                          passage only
     (i)   Andrea Del Sarto                        (D) does not escape at all
     (ii) The Blessed Damozel
                                               11. Who among these is not associated
     (iii) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
                                                   with existentialist thought ?
     (iv) The Lotus Eaters
                                                   (A) Friedrich Nietzche
                    List II
     (a) Thomas Hardy                              (B) Rene Descartes

     (b) Tennyson                                  (C) Jean Paul Sartre

     (c) Rossetti                                  (D) Soren Kierkegaard
     (d) R. Browning
                                               12. The antimasque was a form
     Codes :
                                                   developed by :
           (i)   (ii)     (iii) (iv)
                                                   (A) George Chapman
     (A) (d) (c)          (a)    (b)
                                                   (B) John Marston
     (B) (a)     (b)      (c)    (d)
     (C) (b)     (c)      (d) (a)                  (C) Ben Jonson

     (D) (c)     (d)      (a)    (b)               (D) John Webster

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13. The concept ‘Epiphany’ is mentioned         16. Which character doesn’t appear in
    in relation to the works of :                    The Untouchable ?

    (A) T.S. Eliot                                   (A) Maya

    (B) James Joyce                                  (B) Bakha

    (C) Ronald Firbank                               (C) Lakha

    (D) Edward Marsh                                 (D) Sohini

14. While writing about the works of            17. Who is famous for his work on

    Wells, Bennett and John Galsworthy,              ancient Indian scriptures ?

    who said that ‘they spend immense                (A) Shashi Tharoor
    skill and immense industry making                (B) Devdutt Pattanaik
    the trivial and the transitory appear            (C) Nikesh Shukla
    the true and the enduring’ ?                     (D) P. K. Balakrishnan
    (A) D. H. Lawrence                          18. Tennessee Williams employed............
    (B) Virginia Woolf                               technique in his play The Glass
    (C) E. M. Foster                                 Menagerie.

    (D) James Joyce                                  (A) Conventional

15. What is the real name of Pablo                   (B) Traditional

    Neruda, a surrealist poet of                     (C) Unconventional
    Chile ?                                          (D) Religious
    (A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez                  19. The Audio-Lingual Method of

    (B) Margaret Eleanor Atwood                      language teaching uses :

    (C) Patrick Victor Martindale                    (A) Communicative theory

        White                                        (B) Cognitive theory

    (D) Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes                (C) Behaviourist theory
        Basoalto                                     (D) Semantic theory

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20. The perspective called “Affective          23. Match the following writers with
    stylistics” was developed by :
                                                   their lifespan :
    (A) Michael Riffaterre
                                                                      List I
    (B) David Bleich
                                                   (i)   William Blake
    (C) Stanley Fish

    (D) Jonathan Culler                            (ii) Charles Lamb

21. Which critic made a seathing attack            (iii) P. B. Shelley
    on T.S. Eliot in 1920s, wrote a
                                                   (iv) John Keats
    standard introduction to Poetics and

    authored The Decline and Fall of the                          List II

    Romantic Ideal ?                               (a) 1795-1821
    (A) F. R. Leavis
                                                   (b) 1792-1822
    (B) E. V. Lucas
                                                   (c)   1775-1834
    (C) F. L. Lucas
                                                   (d) 1757-1827
    (D) Middleton Murry

22. Which poet describes his childhood                   (i)   (ii)     (iii) (iv)

    episodes as ‘spots of time’ ?
                                                   (A) (d) (c)          (b)    (a)
    (A) P. B. Shelley
                                                   (B) (a)     (b)      (c)    (d)
    (B) Lord Byron
                                                   (C) (b)     (d)      (a)    (c)
    (C) William Wordsworth

    (D) S. T. Coleridge                            (D) (c)     (d)      (b)    (a)

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24. What do the following lines smack           26. Rasselas (1759) by Samuel Johnson
    of ?                                            is subtitled :

    Mid hush’d, cool rooted flowers,                (A) King of Aragon

                           fragrant-eyed,           (B) Prince of England

    Blue, Silver-white, and budded                  (C) King of Scotland

                                 Tyrion,            (D) Prince of Abyssinia

    They lay calm-breathing on the              27. O Love, how strangely sweet

                           bedded grass;            Are thy weak passions,

    Their arms embraced, and their                  That Love and Joy should meet

                             pinions too;           In self-same fashions !

    Their lips touch’d not, but had not             These lines are written by :

                             bade adieu.            (A) Henry Howard

    (A) Wordsworth’s Pantheism                      (B) George Herbert

    (B) Coleridge’s Imagination                     (C) John Marston

    (C) Charles Lamb’s Humour                       (D) John Donne

    (D) Keats’ Sensuousness                     28. Identify the figure of speech in the
                                                    following lines :
25. Which one of the following works is
    not written by George Peele ?                   The muttering retreats

    (A) The Battle of Alcazar                       Of restless nights in one-night cheap
                                                    hotels.
    (B) The Love of King David and
           Fair Bethasbe                            (A) Synecdoche

    (C) The Old Wives’ Tale                         (B) Transferred epithet

    (D) The Honorable Historie of Frier             (C) Metonymy

           Bacon and Frier Bongay                   (D) Personification

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29. Which of the following writers is            33. Who introduced the dramatic theory
    NOT a Victorian writer ?                         of ‘alienation effect’ ?
     (A) Samuel Butler                               (A) Stringberg
     (B) George Eliot                                (B) Bertolt Brecht
     (C) Emily Jane Bronte                           (C) Franz Kafka
     (D) Philip Larkin
                                                     (D) Antonin Artaud
30. The novel Rites of Passage is written
                                                 34. While commenting on Theodore
    by :
                                                     Francis Powys’ literary works, who
     (A) John Fowles
                                                     said, “It does not seem likely that
     (B) J. G. Ballard                               it will ever again be possible for a
     (C) William Golding                             distinguished mind to be framed, as
     (D) E. M. Forster                               Mr. Powys has been, on the rhythms,
31. Which of the following novels is                 sanctioned by nature and time, of
    subtitled A Novel Without a                      rural culture” ?
    Hero ?                                           (A) G. B. Harrison
     (A) Oliver Jurist                               (B) J. B. Priestley
     (B) Wuthering Heights
                                                     (C) Herbert Read
     (C) Vanity Fair
                                                     (D) F. R. Leavis
     (D) The Mill on the Floss
                                                 35. The use of an interactive model of
32. The line “To strive, to seek, to find,
                                                     language teaching materials based
    and not to yield” occurs in which of
                                                     on the learner’s everyday life
    the following poems ?
                                                     situations are the strategies used
     (A) “Ulysses” by Alfred Tennyson
                                                     by :
     (B) “The Lotus Eaters” by Alfred
                                                     (A) The Army Method
         Tennyson
                                                     (B) The Reading Method
     (C) “The Last Ride Together” by
         Robert Browning                             (C) The Communicative Language

     (D) “The Scholar Gypsy”           by                   Approach
         Matthew Arnold                              (D) The Bilingual Method

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36. Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel              40. Who among the following did not
    Prize in :                                     publish a dictionary of the English
                                                   language ?
    (A) 1991
                                                   (A) Robert Cawdrey
    (B) 1992
                                                   (B) William Tyndale
    (C) 1993
                                                   (C) Nathaniel Bailey
    (D) 1994                                       (D) Samuel Johnson
37. Which of the following books is NOT        41. Teaching English for communicative
    written by Taslima Nasreen ?                   competence in a specific field such
    (A) Lajja                                      as IT, engineering, business,
                                                   accounting, hospitality is referred to
    (B) French Lover
                                                   by the acronym :
    (C) Bakul Katha
                                                   (A) ESP
    (D) Shorom                                     (B) EAP
38. Who among the following writers                (C) EGP
    was a leading member of the Harlem             (D) EFP
    Renaissance ?                              42. The Wretched of the Earth includes
    (A) Allen Ginsberg                             an introduction by :

    (B) Henry Wordsworth Longfellow                (A) Jean-Paul Sartre

    (C) Langston Huges                             (B) Michel Foucault
                                                   (C) Aimé Césaire
    (D) Louisa Mary Alcott
                                                   (D) Nelson Mandela
39. Nataraj in The Man-fater of Malgudi
                                               43. Who called Spenser the “Poet’s
    is a :
                                                   Poet” ?
    (A) veterinary doctor
                                                   (A) William Hazlitt
    (B) printing press owner                       (B) John Dryden
    (C) tourist guide                              (C) Alexander Pope
    (D) philosopher                                (D) Charles Lamb

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44. According to Aristotle, tragedy has               47. How does Donne argue that in killing
    ................... elements.                         the flea the girl commits triple

    (A) 6                                                 murder ?

    (B) 7                                                 (A) The girl’s mother, father and the

    (C) 5                                                      flea

    (D) 4                                                 (B) The poet’s mother, father and

45. Identify the character about whom                          the girl

    Charles Lamb characterises her                        (C) The poet, the girl and the flea
    manner as “innocence-resembling                       (D) The girl’s mother, father and the
    boldness” and William Hazlit found
                                                               poet
    in that character “that forced and
                                                      48. Of the following which is a tragedy
    practised presence of mind”.
                                                          written by Ben Jonson ?
    (A) Miranda in The Tempest
                                                          (A) Cynthia’s Revels
    (B) Isabella in The White Devil
                                                          (B) The Poetaster
    (C) Vittoria in The White Devil
                                                          (C) Bartholomew Fair
    (D) Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi
                                                          (D) Sejanus
46. Which       one      of    the   following
                                                      49. Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Shepherd’s
    characteristics cannot be attributed
    to Charles Lamb’s essays ?                            Calendar’ was dedicated to ..............

    (A) Metaphysical element                              (A) Sir Philip Sidney

    (B) Humour and Pathos                                 (B) Christopher Marlowe

    (C) Mystification                                     (C) Robert Greene

    (D) Autobiographical element                          (D) Thomas Lodge

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50. Who has made self-declaration               53. Which of the following statements
                                                    or comments is NOT TRUE ?
    about the microcosmic depiction as
                                                    (A) Tess is more sinned than
    ‘the little bit (two inches wide) of                against than the sinning.
    Ivory on which I work’ ?                        (B) Robert Browning shares his
                                                        robust optimism in his poems.
    (A) George Eliot
                                                    (C) Thomas Hardy is a pessimistic
    (B) Jane Austen                                     novelist       and   asserts   the

    (C) Walter Scott                                    importance of the role of destiny
                                                        or chance in lives of human
    (D) Joseph Conrad                                   beings.
51. Who is called the ‘Wasp of                      (D) Thyrsis cannot be said to be a
                                                        pastoral elegy.
    Twickenham’ ?
                                                54. Identify the metrical foot in the
    (A) Alexander Pope                              following line :

    (B) Jonathan Swift                              With a turf on my breast, and a
                                                    stone on my head.
    (C) John Dryden
                                                    (A) Anapest
    (D) Shaftsbury                                  (B) Iamb

52. Which one of the following is not               (C) Tetrameter
                                                    (D) Trochee
    included    in     the   group    of
                                                55. Which type of theme does L.P.
    ‘Metaphysical poets’ ?
                                                    Hartley’s The Go-Between deal
    (A) Abraham Cowley                              with ?
                                                    (A) Jamesian
    (B) John Donne
                                                    (B) Lawrentian
    (C) John Cleveland
                                                    (C) Restoration
    (D) Edmund Spenser                              (D) Jacobean

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56. Which of the following novels of        61. Charles Morgan is the author of :
    Charles    Dickens     has   the
                                                (A) The Fountain
    autobiographical elements ?
                                                (B) Orlando
    (A) Bleak House
    (B) Hard Times                              (C) The Corn King and the Spring

    (C) Nicholas Nickleby                           Queen

    (D) David Copperfield                       (D) The Cathedral

57. Phonology studies :                     62. Which among the following is not
    (A) Patterns of sound                       an autobiographical writing by
    (B) Patterns of meaning                     Taslima Nasreen ?
    (C) Patterns of letters                     (A) Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood)
    (D) Patterns of sentences                   (B) Utal Hawa (Wild Wind)
58. Who wrote the novel The Plague ?
                                                (C) Ka (Speak Up)
    (A) Kingsley Amis
                                                (D) Lajja
    (B) Albert Camus
                                            63. Janaki is a character in Mulk Raj
    (C) Franz Kafka
                                                Anand’s novel :
    (D) Jean Paul Sartre
                                                (A) Coolie
59. Who wrote the play Rhinoceros ?
    (A) Samuel Beckett                          (B) Untouchable

    (B) Henrik Ibsen                            (C) The Village
    (C) Albert Camus                            (D) The Big Heart
    (D) Eugene Ionesco                      64. Who was known as the ‘Nightingale
60. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was            of India’ ?
    first published in :
                                                (A) Amrita Pritam
    (A) 1938
                                                (B) Sarojini Naidu
    (B) 1939
                                                (C) Mahadevi Varma
    (C) 1940
    (D) 1941                                    (D) Jalnavi Barua

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65. Langue and parole are terms used          67. The word “womanist” was used
    by :
                                                 by :
    (A) Barthes
                                                 (A) Zora Neale Hurston
    (B) Saussure
    (C) Lacan                                    (B) Alice Walker

    (D) Foucault                                 (C) Toni Morrison
66. Choose the correct option which
                                                 (D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
    matches the critic (Column A) with
    the concept/theories they put             68. “The artist is once more in

    forward (Column B) :                         rudiments an introvert, not for
                        A                        removed from neurosis.” Who wrote
    (i)    Derrida                               these lines ?
    (ii) Saussure
                                                 (A) Kristeva
    (iii) Homi Bhabha
                                                 (B) Jung
    (iv) Edward Said
                        B                        (C) Lacan

    (a) Hybridity                                (D) Freud
    (b) Deconstruction
                                              69. The line, “There’s a special
    (c) Orientation
                                                 providence in the fall of a sparrow,”
    (d) Structuralism
                                                 is from :
           (i)   (ii)   (iii) (iv)
                                                 (A) The Tempest
    (A) (c)      (a)    (d) (b)
    (B) (a)      (b)    (c)   (d)                (B) King Lear

    (C) (b)      (d)    (a)   (c)                (C) Hamlet
    (D) (d) (c)         (b)   (a)
                                                 (D) Twelfth Night

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70. Whom did John Keats regard as the             74. In A GAME AT CHESS written by
     prime     example      of   “Negative            Thomas Middleton the white pieces
     Capability” ?                                    represent :
     (A) Lord Byron                                   (A) The English
     (B) John Milton                                  (B) The Spaniards
     (C) William Wordsworth                           (C) The French
     (D) William Shakespeare                          (D) The German
71. What is Hellenism ? It is ..........          75. The author of the biography Life of
     (A) Love for Greek art, literature               Johnson (1791) is :
            and culture                               (A) Edward Gibbon
     (B) the world of Hell                            (B) Oliver Goldsmith
     (C) Goethic culture and art                      (C) James Boswell
     (D) a supernatural element                       (D) Sheridan

72. The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s            76. What is the name of the club
     The Canterbury Tales were on their               frequented by writers like Addison
     way to the shrine of ...............             and Steele ?

     (A) St. Augustine                                (A) Fat Men’s Club

     (B) Our Lady of Caversham                        (B) Spectator Club

     (C) Thomas a’ Becket                             (C) October Club

     (D) Our Lady Undercroft                          (D) Kit Kat Club

73. ‘The Defence of Poesie’ is written            77. Which of the following poems is not
     by :                                             written by John Donne ?

     (A) Edmund Spenser                               (A) The Apparition

     (B) Sir Philip Sidney                            (B) The Ecstasy

     (C) Thomas Nashe                                 (C) The Altar

     (D) Christopher Marlowe                          (D) The Bait

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78. What is Rime Royal ?                           81. Identify the correct sequence of
    (A) It is a seven-line, iambic                     research steps :
         pentameter stanza rhyming                     (A) Selection of topic, review of
         ababbcc.                                             literature, data collection,
    (B) It   is     a   six-line,    iambic                   interpretation of findings.
         pentameter stanza rhyming                     (B) Selection of topic, review of
         ababbc.                                              literature, interpretation of
    (C) It is a four-line, iambic                             findings, data collection.
         pentameter stanza rhyming                     (C) Selection       of   topic,     data
         abab.                                                collection, review of literature,
    (D) It   is    a    five-line,   iambic                   interpretation of findings.
         hexameter stanza rhyming                      (D) Review of literature, selection of
         ababb.
                                                              topic,     data     collection,
79. The essential quality/qualities of a                      interpretation of findings.
    researcher is/are :
                                                   82. Vowels are produced with a stricture
    (A) Systematization or theorizing of               of :
         knowledge
                                                       (A) open approximation
    (B) Spirit of free enquiry
                                                       (B) close approximation
    (C) Reliance on observation and
                                                       (C) open and close approximation at
         evidence
                                                              the same time
    (D) All the above
                                                       (D) without any approximation
80. A volume of verse entitled Tender
                                                   83. Research ethics do not include :
    only to one is authored by :
                                                       (A) Subjectivity
    (A) Carol Ann Duffy
                                                       (B) Honesty
    (B) Derek Mahon
                                                       (C) Integrity
    (C) Stevie Smith
                                                       (D) Objectivity
    (D) Paul Muldoon

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84. Which poem by T.S. Eliot begins                     87. Tagore’s Gitanjali reveals NOT :
    with the lines ?
                                                            (A) his deep roots in the ancient
    ‘I don’t know much about gods; but
                                                                Indian traditions
    I think that the river

    Is a strong brown god–sullen,                           (B) a personal quest for the Divine

    untamed and intractable’ ?                              (C) an outcome of his ecstasy
    (A) “The Dry Salvages”
                                                            (D) a radical view of society
    (B) “The Hollow Men”
                                                        88. The Drum Dancer is a play by :
    (C) “Ash Wednesday”
                                                            (A) Asif Currimbhoy
    (D) “Four Quartets”

85. Who, among the following, is a                          (B) Gurucharan Das

    dramatist ?                                             (C) Badal Sarkar
    (A) Edgar Wallace
                                                            (D) Mahesh Elkunchwar
    (B) Harcourt Williams
                                                        89. In Halliday’s classification of the
    (C) Dorothy Sayers
                                                            functions of language, language use
    (D) J.C. Powys

86. Derek Walcott in his poem ‘Far Cry                      for learning and exploring the

    From Africa’ refers to .....................            environment is termed as :
    tribe.
                                                            (A) Representational
    (A) Sonjo
                                                            (B) Imaginative
    (B) Kikuyu
                                                            (C) Interactional
    (C) Kamba

    (D) Embu                                                (D) Heuristic

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90. Which of the following statements            93. Which critic theorised the act of
    is NOT correct ?                                 reading by foregrounding the
    (A) A Creole is a language that has              concept        of       interpretive
        developed from a mixture of                  communities ?
        languages and become the main
                                                     (A) Stanley Fish
        language in a particular place.
                                                     (B) Cleanth Brooks
    (B) A Creole is a person descended
        from the Europeans who first                 (C) Allen Tale
        settled in the West Indies or the            (D) John Crowe Ransom
        Southern United States of
                                                 94. Which one among the following
        America.
                                                     statements is not true in the context
    (C) A Creole is a standard language
                                                     of Marxist criticism ?
        used in official and formal
        situations by governments, in                (A) It tries to locate a text in its
        media and in education.                          historical context.
    (D) A Creole is a person of mixed                (B) It makes ideological analysis.
        African and European race,                   (C) It argues that the author is
        who lives in the West Indies and
                                                         autonomous, independent of
        speaks a Creole language.
                                                         history.
91. Who does Sidney call “the right
                                                     (D) It subscribes to dialectical
    popular philosopher” ?
                                                         materialism.
    (A) Lawyer
    (B) Poet                                     95. The letters of which English poet
                                                     have been described by T.S. Eliot as
    (C) Historian
                                                     “certainly the most notable and most
    (D) Mathematician
                                                     important ever written by any
92. In the chapter “Historical Criticism”
                                                     English poet” ?
    N. Frye represents a theory of :
    (A) Symbols                                      (A) S.T. Coleridge

    (B) Modes                                        (B) Lord Byron
    (C) Myths                                        (C) Sir Walter Scott
    (D) Genres                                       (D) John Keats
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96. Though    Shakespeare        is     an             A shattering blue and choke their
   Elizabethan playwright, some of his                                              flowers
   plays were performed for the first
                                                       In tinsel; their mind is provincial,
   time in the Jacobean period. Which
                                                       Their children are dull.
   of the following plays was performed
   after 1603 ?                                    97. Interiors of the houses have

   (A) The Comedy of Errors                            become :

   (B) The Merchant of Venice                          (A) more Indianised

   (C) Macbeth                                         (B) remained unchanged

   (D) The Taming of the Shrew                         (C) Anglicised

   Direction (Q. Nos. 97-100) : Read                   (D) Outdated
   the following poem and answer                   98. What is the attitude of the Parsi ?
   the questions given below :
                                                       (A) Traditional
   Our interiors never could remain
                                                       (B) Superstitious
   Quite Engligh. The local gods hidden
                                                       (C) Sceptic
                                         in
                                                       (D) Reasonable
   Cupboards from rational Parsi eyes
                                                   99. The reference is made to :
   Would suddenly turn up on the
                                                       (A) Poor Parsis
                                      walls
                                                       (B) Well-off ones
   Garlanded alongside the King and
                                                       (C) Indianised ones
                            the Queen.
                                                       (D) Westernised one
   Today it is simpler to admit with
                                                   100. Here the word ‘greasy’ means :
                                 relief :
   The men are too greasy, their speech                (A) soft

   Is too nasal, their wives either plain              (B) selfish

   Or overdone; they choose for their                  (C) harsh

                                 dresses               (D) slippery

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