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MH SET 2023: 26 March, Paper II, English

  • Date: 26 March 2023
  • Paper code: MAR-03223
  • 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) :
                                                 powerful human consciousness that
    Read the passage and answer                  has supremacy over perceived
    the questions given below it :               human conceptions dispelling the
    The Life Divine is a masterpiece that        unwanted to enter the blissful arena
    reveals Sri Aurobindo’s vivid                of eternity of human expression.
    deliberation and divine creativity           Eventually, it leads all of us to reach
    about ‘human consciousness’. It is           the pinnacle of Sri Aurobindo’s
    the source of relentless human               unfathomable expressions.
    activity and development. This               The Life Divine discusses the
    paper spotlights the literary promise        conception of higher aesthetics
    of fresh contemplative ways on the           envisaged by Sri Aurobindo as a
    work of Sri Aurobindo as a spiritual         seer. The indefatigable spirit of the
    discourse. Sri Aurobindo’s exposure          seer enriches every sphere of
    to the higher dynamics in the                description as he explained it in his
    philosophy of thought empowered              The Future Poetry. According to
    him to deal with the interesting topic       Aurobindo ‘‘the most pronounced
    of individual and collective psyche          force of expression’’ takes its flight
    at universal level with great ease.          from ‘‘the subtle plane through the
    The word ‘eternity’ in this context          creative vital’’ as it uses the outer
    suggests the boundless freedom of            mind and other external instruments
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     for transmission only. The Life             4.   The word ‘expression’ in the passage
     Divine is a consummate example for
                                                      is not related to :
     his ability of creating the limitless
     vision of truth and power of human               (A) aesthetic expression
     consciousness, without employing
                                                      (B) creative expression
     any artificial enforcing machinery
     in the process of transmission.                  (C) transcendental expression

1.   What is not a feature of human                   (D) rational expression
     consciouness ?
                                                 5.   The Sadeian Woman and the
     (A) freedom
                                                      Ideology of Pornography is a
     (B) eternity
     (C) perceived knowledge                          feminist re-appraisal of the work of

     (D) seamlessness                                 Marquis de Sade. Name the author.

2.   The    Life    Divine   exalts   and             (A) Kate Millett
     envisages :
                                                      (B) Catherine Belsey
     (A) perceived human conceptions
     (B) consciousness of the material                (C) Angela Carter
           world                                      (D) Judith Butler
     (C) social relations
                                                 6.   A.S. Byatt’s Possession : A Romance
     (D) knowledge of spiritual truth
                                                      returns to the :
3.   In The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo
     leaves his mark as a :                           (A) Old English period
     (A) literary artist
                                                      (B) Victorian period
     (B) visionary saint
                                                      (C) Middle English period
     (C) social reformer
     (D) historical critic                            (D) Restoration period

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7.   There are two kinds of morphemes :          10. Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield

     (A) closed morpheme and open                    was first published in :

         morpheme                                    (A) 1932

     (B) bound morpheme and free                     (B) 1933
         morpheme                                    (C) 1934
     (C) bound morpheme and closed                   (D) 1935
         morpheme                                11. Richard Hoggart established :
     (D) free morpheme and open                      (A) School of Drama
         morpheme
                                                     (B) Practical Criticism Centre
8.   Which of the following was not
                                                     (C) Birmingham        Centre     for
     written by Simone de Beauvoir ?
                                                         Contemporary Studies
     (A) The Second Sex
                                                     (D) Romantic School of Poetry
     (B) The Ethics of Ambiguity
                                                 12. In The Golden Notebook, Doris
     (C) Adieux : A Farewell to Sartre               Lessing :
     (D) The Female Eunuch                           (A) examines sexual and women’s
9.   ‘‘Love your enemy, bless your haters.               liberation movements
     Said the greatest of the great’’.               (B) provides    an    analysis    of
     Who said the above statement ?                      communism
     (A) Alfred Tennyson                             (C) contains powerful anti-war
     (B) Matthew Arnold                                  messages
     (C) Robert Browning                             (D) explores the trauma of a middle
     (D) Charles Dickens                                 class woman

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13. ‘‘It’s    when       I’m     weary      of        16. Communicative Language Teaching
                               consideration,             is :
     And life is too much like a pathless                 (A) teacher focused
                                         wood
                                                          (B) materials focused
     ....... I’d like to get away from earth
                                                          (C) experience focused
                                     a while
                                                          (D) student focused
     and then come back to it and begin over’’.
     Whose lines are these ?                          17. Who      translated      Derrida’s
                                                          Of Grammatology in English ?
     (A) Walt Whitman
     (B) Edger Alan Poe                                   (A) Homi Bhabha

     (C) Robert Frost                                     (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

     (D) Emily Dickinson                                  (C) Ferdinaad de Saussure

14. In ‘‘Night of the Scorpion’’ Ezekiel                  (D) Jacques Lacan
     represents the superstitious attitude            18. Who coined the term Gynocriticism ?
     of :
                                                          (A) Mary Shelley
     (A) Indian women
                                                          (B) Virginia Woolf
     (B) Indian boys
                                                          (C) Elaine Showalter
     (C) Indian peasants
                                                          (D) Kate Millett
     (D) Indian parents
                                                      19. The famous term ‘culture industry’
15. Who authored The Twice Born
                                                          was coined by :
     Fiction ?
                                                          (A) Theodore Adorno
     (A) Shyamala A. Narayan
                                                          (B) George Lukacs
     (B) P. Lal
     (C) Meenakshi Mukherjee                              (C) Stuart Hall

     (D) Mahadevi Varma                                   (D) Roland Barthes

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20. What is the pen name of Charles          23. Who has remarked that his
    Lamb ?                                       endeavour is ‘to enliven morality
    (A) Amelia                                   with wit and to temper wit with
    (B) Eric Blair                               morality’ ?
    (C) Elia                                     (A) Richard Steele
    (D) Alpha of the Plough
                                                 (B) Joseph Addison
21. Who      first   used   the   term
                                                 (C) Samuel Johnson
    ‘‘metaphysical’’ for Donne and his
                                                 (D) Daniel Defoe
    followers ?

    (A) Ben Jonson                           24. ‘The Harmonie of the Church’ is

    (B) Dr. Johnson                              authored by :

    (C) George Chapman                           (A) William Shakespeare

    (D) Cowley                                   (B) Sir Philip Sidney

22. Blank verse consists of :                    (C) Michael Drayton
    (A) Iambic pentameter which are              (D) John Milton
        unrhymed
                                             25. A unit of three lines of verse that
    (B) Iambic pentameter which are
                                                 rhyme together is called :
        rhymed
                                                 (A) Trimet
    (C) Iambic hexameter which are
        rhymed                                   (B) Tercet

    (D) Iambic hexameter which are               (C) Triplet

        unrhymed                                 (D) Tricet

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26. Contrapuntal reading—a reading            29. The concept of deep structure and
                                                  surface structure was given by :
    strategy that brings out the
                                                  (A) Whorf
    contradictions built into the text—
                                                  (B) Sapier
    was developed by :
                                                  (C) Halliday
    (A) Louis Althusser                           (D) Chomsky

    (B) Edward Said                           30. Identify the figure of speech in the
                                                  following lines :
    (C) I.A. Richards
                                                  An hundred years should go to praise
    (D) Cleanth Brooks
                                                  Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
27. Who, among the following, is not a            Two hundred to adore each Breast :
    prose-writer ?                                But thirty thousand for the rest.

    (A) Roy Campbell                              (A) Irony

                                                  (B) Metonymy
    (B) A. E. Coppard
                                                  (C) Hyperbole
    (C) Lord Dunsany
                                                  (D) Oxymoron
    (D) Somerset Maugham
                                              31. ‘Down Cemetery Road’ is the title of
28. Thomas Hardy’s Dynasts is a/an                D. J. Enright’s article on the poetry
                                                  of :
    (A) Play
                                                  (A) William Empson
    (B) Novel
                                                  (B) Philip Larkin
    (C) Epic poem                                 (C) Sylvia Plath

    (D) Collection of Lyrics                      (D) Charles Tomlinson

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32. Identify the autobiographical novel       35. Curries and other Indian dishes is

    written by George Eliot :                     a work of :

                                                  (A) R.K. Narayan
    (A) The Mill on the Floss
                                                  (B) Mulk Raj Anand
    (B) Adam Bede
                                                  (C) Rudyard Kipling
    (C) Daniel Deronda
                                                  (D) Vikram Seth
    (D) Middle March
                                              36. All About H. Hatterr is written by :
33. Sancho Panza is a         fictional           (A) Bhabani Bhattacharya
    character from :                              (B) Anita Desai

    (A) Don Quixote                               (C) G.V. Desani

    (B) Waiting for Godot                         (D) Manju Kaur

                                              37. Which of the following texts can be
    (C) Caligula
                                                  classified as belonging to the Middle
    (D) Iliad
                                                  English literature ?
34. Which of the following American
                                                  (A) Caedmon’s Hymn, Beowulf
    play had 742 performances and has
                                                  (B) The Fairie Queene, Astrophel
    been revived on Broadway four                      and   Stella,   The   Spanish
    times ?                                            Tragedy

    (A) All My Sons                               (C) Volpone, The White Devil, The
                                                       Changeling
    (B) The Glass Menagerie
                                                  (D) Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and
    (C) Death of a Salesman
                                                       the   Green     Knight,     The
    (D) A 200’s Story                                  Canterbury Tales

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38. Shelley defends poetry against the          41. Let me not to the marriage of true

    attack of :                                                                    minds

                                                    Admit impediments. Love is not love
    (A) Robert Southey
                                                    Which alters when it alteration finds.
    (B) Walter Scott
                                                    The above lines are from a sonnet
    (C) Thomas Love Peacock
                                                    by :
    (D) Samuel T. Coleridge                         (A) William Shakespeare

39. Which of the following groups of                (B) Sir Thomas Wyatt

    words contains only open syllables ?            (C) Edmund Spenser

    (A) baby, plain, say, wait                      (D) Sir Philip Sydney

                                                42. Who was the architect and stage
    (B) truck, bed, sock, happen
                                                    designer who had provided the sets
    (C) table, no, enemy, foe
                                                    for Ben Jonson’s masques ?
    (D) hit, keep, ask, hold
                                                    (A) John Webster
40. Which among the following poets                 (B) Inigo Jones
    has written the lines :                         (C) John Ford

    ‘‘Bliss was it that dawn to be alive            (D) George Chapman

    But to be young was very heaven.            43. Who calls his novels ‘comic epic
                                                    poem in prose’ ?
    (A) William Wordsworth
                                                    (A) Daniel Defoe
    (B) Robert Southey
                                                    (B) Henry Fielding
    (C) Lord Byron
                                                    (C) Laurence Sterne
    (D) Thomas De Quincey
                                                    (D) Samuel Richardson
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44. Touchstone is a famous character in           47. The exemplar and mentor of ‘‘liberal
    William Shakespeare’s ................            humanism’’ in England was :

    (A) All’s Well That Ends Well                     (A) Samuel Johnson
                                                      (B) John Dryden
    (B) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
                                                      (C) Alexander Pope
    (C) As You Like It
                                                      (D) Matthew Arnold
    (D) Twelfth Night
                                                  48. ‘‘I’ve known her from an ample
45. ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in                                                 nation
    Macbeth’’ is written by :                         Choose one;
    (A) Walter Scott                                  Then close the valves of her
    (B) Lord Byron                                                               attention

    (C) Thomas De Quincey                             Like stone’’.

    (D) William Blake                                 These are the lines of Emily
                                                      Dickinson’s poem :
46. Among the four statements given
                                                      (A) I’m Nobody! Who are you ?
    below, only one statement is correct.
                                                      (B) I Felt a Funeral in My brain
    Identify the correct one :
                                                      (C) The Soul Selects Her own
    (A) New criticism considers text as
                                                           Society
         a cultural construct
                                                      (D) The Day came slow, till Five
    (B) New criticism considers text as                    o’clock
         a product of history                     49. A foot in which a stressed syllable
    (C) New criticism considers text as               is followed by an unstressed syllable
         a repository of authorial                    is called :
         intentions                                   (A) Anapestic

    (D) New criticism considers text as               (B) Trochaic

         an autonomous, ontological and               (C) Iambic

         organic whole                                (D) Dactylic

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50. Aphorism and epigram are the                    53. Which one of the following novels
     distinguishing features of the prose
                                                        is a part of Lawrence Durrell’s
     style of :
                                                        ‘Avignon Quintet’ ?
     (A) Francis Bacon
                                                        (A) Clea
     (B) Joseph Addison
                                                        (B) Sebastian
     (C) Richard Steele

     (D) Charles Lamb                                   (C) Montolive

51. Who among the following can be said                 (D) Balthazar

     to be the dramatist of the Victorian
                                                    54. The realisation of a morpheme in
     Age ?
                                                        terms of a phoneme is called :
     (A) George Bernard Shaw
                                                        (A) morphophonemics
     (B) Oscar Wilde
                                                        (B) phonemics
     (C) Thomas Malory

     (D) Charles Dickens                                (C) semantics

52. Who said, ‘‘it is healthier to read Tit-            (D) pragmatics

     Bits than Tennyson’s Idylls of the
                                                    55. Which is not a work of Franz Kafka ?
     King’’ ?
                                                        (A) The Metamorphosis
     (A) George Orwell
                                                        (B) Caucasian Chalk Circle
     (B) Samuel Backett

     (C) Kingsley Amis                                  (C) The Trial

     (D) J.M. Synge                                     (D) The Judgement

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56. The scene wherein the narrator is           59. Cyril Dabydeen is a/an :
                                                    (A) Australian playwright
    transported to his childhood while
                                                    (B) Canadian poet
    he tastes a madeleine dipped in tea,
                                                    (C) African novelist
    appears in :
                                                    (D) American dramatist
    (A) War and Peace                           60. The term ‘Diaspora’ comes from :
    (B) Remembrance of Things Past                  (A) Latin

    (C) Alice in Wonderland                         (B) French
                                                    (C) Greek
    (D) Sons and Lovers
                                                    (D) Scandinavian
57. Which poet said that he created             61. Which of these is not a translation
    poetry which attained the end of                of the Bible into English ?

    blood,   imagination,    intellect,             (A) Caxton’s Bible

    running together’ ?                             (B) Tyndale’s Bible
                                                    (C) King James Version
    (A) W.B. Yeats
                                                    (D) Wycliffe’s Bible
    (B) Coventry Patmore                        62. A diphthong is :
    (C) C. Day Lewis                                (A) an unstressed syllable followed
                                                        by a stressed syllable
    (D) George Barker
                                                    (B) a   sound    formed      by   the
58. Who wrote Daniel Deronda ?                          combination of two vowels in a
    (A) George Eliot                                    single syllable
                                                    (C) unaccented syllables pro-
    (B) Jane Austen
                                                        nounced with little or no stress
    (C) Emily Brontë                                (D) a low pitch having a low
    (D) Charlotte Brontë                                frequency sound

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63. Who amongst the following is not a         67. Which poem opens with the line
    primary practitioner of decon-                 ‘‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and
    struction ?
                                                   let me love’’ ?
    (A) Paul de Man
                                                   (A) A Valediction : forbidding
    (B) Barbara Johnson
                                                        mourning
    (C) Georg Lukacs
                                                   (B) The Canonization
    (D) J. Hillis Miller
64. Who in ‘‘An Essay of Dramatic                  (C) The Extasie
    Poesy’’ by Dryden represents the               (D) Twicknam Garden
    Ancients ?
                                               68. In which play does the plot deal with
    (A) Lisideius
                                                   a city goldsmith’s two apprentices
    (B) Crites
                                                   and his two daughters, the younger
    (C) Eugenius
                                                   sweet and modest and the elder
    (D) J. Dryden
                                                   foolish and worldly ?
65. Which poem of Tennyson is critiqued
    as anti-feminist ?                             (A) Eastward Hoe

    (A) ‘‘The Princess’                            (B) The Malcontent

    (B) ‘‘Maud’’                                   (C) The Four Prentices of London
    (C) ‘‘In Memorium’’                            (D) A Trick to Catch the Old one
    (D) ‘‘Idylls of the King’’
                                               69. Samuel Johnson called John Donne
66. What term does Keats use for the
                                                   a metaphysical poet in :
    Grecian Urn ?
                                                   (A) Life of Gray
    (A) Doctor
    (B) Sociologist                                (B) Life of Cowley

    (C) Artist                                     (C) Life of Pope
    (D) Historian                                  (D) Life of Dryden

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70. Identify the printer credited for              74. The journal The Tatler was founded
    issuing the two prints, ‘Beer Street’              by :
    and ‘Gin Lane’ :                                   (A) Richard Steele
    (A) Richard Hogarth                                (B) Samuel Johnson

    (B) William Hogarth                                (C) Alexander Pope

    (C) Joshua Reynolds                                (D) John Dryden
                                                   75. Who said ‘‘No poet, no artist of any
    (D) Michelangelo
                                                       art, has his complete meaning
71. Who was responsible for Britain’s
                                                       alone’’ ?
    first organised detective police force,
                                                       (A) T.S. Eliot
    the Bow Street Runners ?
                                                       (B) I.A. Richards
    (A) Fielding
                                                       (C) F.R. Leavis
    (B) Smollett
                                                       (D) Raymond Williams
    (C) Richardson
                                                   76. Who among the following is not a
    (D) Sterne                                         Caribbean writer ?
72. The Massacre of Paris is authored                  (A) Pablo Neruda
    by :                                               (B) Marlon James
    (A) Thomas Nashe                                   (C) Derek Walcott
    (B) Robert Greene                                  (D) V.S. Naipaul
    (C) Christopher Marlowe                        77. In which poem do the following lines
                                                       occur ?
    (D) David Lodge
                                                       ‘‘Fail I alone, in words and deeds ?
73. ‘A View of the Present State of
                                                       Why, all men strive and who
    Ireland’ is written by :
                                                       succeeds ?’’
    (A) Sir Philip Sidney
                                                       (A) ‘‘My Last Duchess’’
    (B) Robert Greene
                                                       (B) ‘‘The Last Ride Together’’
    (C) Edmund Spenser                                 (C) ‘‘In Memoriam’’
    (D) Thomas Dekker                                  (D) ‘‘Ulysses’
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78. Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood                    81. A fricative sound is produced with :
    was originally a :
                                                         (A) a        stricture         of   open
    (A) Street play
                                                              approximation
    (B) Restoration play

    (C) Victorian play                                   (B) a flap

    (D) Radio play                                       (C) nasal passage open

79. What figure of speech has been used                  (D) a stricture of close approximation
    by Dryden to make fun of Shadwell
                                                     82. Falstaff is a character in William
    in the following lines :
                                                         Shakespeare’s ...................
    Sh ........ alone my perfect image bears,

    Mature in dullness from his tender                   (A) The Merry Wives of Windsor
                                      years.             (B) Twelfth Night
    Sh ......... alone, of all my Sons, is he
                                                         (C) As You Like It
    Who stands confirmed in full stupidity.
                                                         (D) The Winter’s Tale
    (A) Transferred epithet

    (B) Synecdoche                                   83. Which novel opens with the

    (C) Juxtaposition                                    following famous line : ‘‘All happy

    (D) Metonymy                                         families are alike; each unhappy
80. Who is the author of The Sense of                    family is unhappy in its own way’’ ?
    An Ending ?
                                                         (A) Pride and Prejudice
    (A) Julian Barnes
                                                         (B) Anna Karenina
    (B) Ian McEwan

    (C) Harold Fry                                       (C) Wuthering Heights

    (D) John Niven                                       (D) Mayor of Casterbridge

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84. Following was one of the pioneering        87. Who was the first to translate the
    theorists of cultural studies in               Mahabharata into English ?
    Britain :
                                                   (A) K.M. Ganguli
    (A) I.A. Richards
                                                   (B) Ram Nath Kak
    (B) Walter Pater
                                                   (C) Dilip Chitre
    (C) Raymond Williams

    (D) C.S. Lewis                                 (D) Charles Wilkins

85. An annual anthology called Wheels          88. An epic poem in Old English verse
    was published by :                             is :
    (A) Wyndham Lewis, T.S. Eliot and              (A) Odyssey
           Ezra Pound
                                                   (B) Beowulf
    (B) Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell
                                                   (C) Paradise Lost
           and Sacheverell Sitwell

    (C) Humbert Wolfe, Herbert Read                (D) Iliad

           and Lascelles Abercrombie           89. The belief that a second language
    (D) W.J. Turner, Louis Macneice                can be taught in the same way as
           and Sir John Squire                     the learner’s first language by using
86. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam                   only the target language; forms the
    was rendered into English poetry
                                                   basis for the :
    by :
                                                   (A) Audio-Lingual Method
    (A) William Cowper
                                                   (B) Functional Method
    (B) Matthew Arnold

    (C) Stephen Spender                            (C) Direct or Natural Method

    (D) Edward FitzGerald                          (D) Communicative Method

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90. ‘‘The Panopticon,’’ according to              93. Who among the following belongs to
                                                      the Bloomsbury group ?
    Foucault ‘‘was also a laboratory’’. It
                                                      (A) W.H. Auden
    cannot be used :
                                                      (B) John Wain
    (A) as a machine to carry out                     (C) Martin Amis
        experiments                                   (D) Virginia Woolf

    (B) to alter behaviour                        94. The title of a book is :
                                                      (A) placed in inverted commas
    (C) to ameliorate the condition of
                                                      (B) underlined in printing
        the individual
                                                      (C) italicized in printing
    (D) to correct individuals                        (D) placed in single inverted
91. Which literary critic compares the                    commas

    poet’s mind to a catalytic agent ?            95. In the title which words begin with
                                                      capital letters ?
    (A) Terry Eagleton
                                                      (A) Grammatical words
    (B) Dryden                                        (B) Content words

    (C) Coleridge                                     (C) Prepositions
                                                      (D) Conjunctions
    (D) T.S. Eliot
                                                  96. Writers achieve the goals of
92. Who among the following is not a                  documentation by providing :
    New Critic ?                                      (A) information in a chaotic manner

    (A) John Crowe Ransom                             (B) insufficient information
                                                      (C) information in a compre-
    (B) Cleanth Brooks
                                                          hensible manner
    (C) Allen Tate                                    (D) information in a complex
    (D) Northrop Frye                                     manner

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Direction (Q. Nos. 97-100) : Read             97. The tone of the poet is :

the following poem and answer                      (A) Pessimistic

the questions given below it :                     (B) Positive

It started as a pilgrimage,                        (C) Doubtful

Exalting minds and making all                      (D) Philosophical

The burden light. The second stage            98. The poet is referring to :

Explored but did not test the call.                (A) his daily prayers

The sun beat down to match our                     (B) religious matters

                                rage.              (C) political issues

                                                   (D) moral concerns
But when the differences arose
                                              99. The first two lines of the last stanza
On how to cross a desert patch
                                                   deal with :
We lost a friend whose stylish prose
                                                   (A) an irony
Was quite the best of all our batch.
                                                   (B) a dilemma
A shadow falls on us–and grows.
                                                   (C) an assertion

When, finally, we reached the place,               (D) an observation

We hardly knew why we were there.             100. The poet longs for :

The trip had darkened every face,                  (A) outings

Our deeds were neither great nor rare.             (B) tourist places

Home is where we have to gather                    (C) friendship

                               grace.              (D) homely stay

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Source: Savitribai Phule Pune University. Question paper published by Savitribai Phule Pune University.