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MH SET 2024: 7 April, Paper II, English

  • Date: 7 April 2024
  • Paper code: APR-03224
  • 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.

1.   Which of the following explains
                                              3.   Who has penned the novel, A Few
     exploratory research ?                        Green Leaves ?
     (A) The causes of a political                 (A) Kate Pullinger
         phenomenon                                (B) Mario Puzo
     (B) The causes of a social and                (C) Barbara Pym
         economic phenomenon                       (D) Alan Plater
     (C) The causes of an educational         4.   When did Arun Kolatkar publish his
         phenomenon                                masterpiece ‘Jejuri’ ?

     (D) The causes of a cultural                  (A) 1974
         phenomenon                                (B) 1964

2.   Who employed a technique ‘a                   (C) 1976

     poetical   prose’   in his   work,            (D) 1980
     Confessions of an English Opium-         5.   In the phrase a cup of milk, the
     Eater ?                                       relation between cup and milk
                                                   is ................... .
     (A) Charles Lamb
                                                   (A) Paradigmatic
     (B) Sir Philip Sidney
                                                   (B) Lucid
     (C) Sydney Smith                              (C) Syntagmatic
     (D) Thomas de Quincy                          (D) Cogent

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6.   Which of the following plays is             9.   Raymond Williams’ Culture and

     labelled as a domestic tragedy ?                 Society, 1780-1950, catalogues five
                                                      key words that bear witness to a
     (A) The Dragon of Wentley
                                                      general change in ways of thinking
     (B) George Barnwell                              of life, the social, political and

     (C) Cato                                         economic institutions and their
                                                      relations to learning, education and
     (D) The Duchess of Malfi
                                                      the arts. These are ................. .
7.   Structuralist criticism is influenced
                                                      (A) Land,             Enlightenment,
     by the ideas of .................. .
                                                           Feudalism, Merit, Culture

     (A) Karl Marx                                    (B) Capital, Base, Superstructure,

     (B) Sigmund Freud                                     State, Culture

     (C) T.S. Eliot                                   (C) Nature, Reform, Religion,
                                                           Regulation, Culture
     (D) Ferdinand de Saussure
                                                      (D) Industry, Democracy, Class,
8.   In 1954, the first foreigner to be
                                                           Art, Culture
     accepted as an Indian citizen
                                                 10. The terms Simulation and Simulacra
     was .................... .
                                                      are associated with ................ .
     (A) J.G. Fazer
                                                      (A) Fredrick Jameson
     (B) Verrier Elwin
                                                      (B) Jean Francois Lyotard
     (C) H.W. Garrod                                  (C) Jean Baudrillard

     (D) F.W. Green                                   (D) M.H. Abrams

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11. All sounds of English are articulated       14. Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of Books
    with ................. .
                                                    is a/an .................. .
    (A) Pulmonic ingressive air stream
                                                    (A) Essay
           mechanism

    (B) Pulmonic egressive air stream               (B) Novel

           mechanism                                (C) Satire
    (C) Glottal airstream mechanism
                                                    (D) Drama
    (D) Palatal airstream mechanism
                                                15. For the deconstructionists, meaning
12. In which year did the British
                                                    results from :
    Parliament introduce the Drama
    Reform Bill in order to strengthen              (A) The interplay of words not used
    the native tradition of the British
                                                    (B) The interplay of words used
    Drama ?
                                                    (C) The free play of words used
    (A) 1800

    (B) 1832                                        (D) The interplay of words used and

    (C) 1854                                              not used

    (D) 1920                                    16. Jawaharlal Nehru’s Glimpses of

13. Exploratory studies are appropriate             World History was written serially
    for some persistent phenomenon                  in the forms of letters to ............... .
    like ................... .
                                                    (A) his grandson Rajeev Gandhi
    (A) Sickness of an industry
                                                    (B) his sister Vijayalaxmi Pandit
    (B) Sickness of social institution
                                                    (C) his daughter Indira
    (C) Sickness of cultural institution

    (D) Sickness of political institution           (D) his father Motilal Nehru

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17. Caste     hierarchy        and       gender       20. “A woman is not born, but made” is
    hierarchy are the organising                          said by ................ .
    principles of the brahmanical social
                                                          (A) Shulamith Firestone
    order and are closely interconnected.
    The     conceptualised           term   for           (B) Sandra Gilbert

    exploring this relationship as used                   (C) Simone de Beauvoir
    by feminist historians like Uma
                                                          (D) Luce Irigaray
    Chakravarti is ................. .
                                                      21. What       should       the   researcher
    (A) Intersectionality
                                                          primarily do for formulating a
    (B) Brahmanical Patriarchy
                                                          research problem ?
    (C) Structured Sexuality
                                                          (A) Review the relevant literature
    (D) Organised Reproduction
                                                          (B) Consult with research guide
18. P.M. Nityananadan’s novel, Long,
    Long Day is ................ .                        (C) Discuss with experts

    (A) An epistolary novel                               (D) Discuss with co-researcher

    (B) A detective novel                             22. Nirad Chaudhari’s The Auto-

    (C) A gothic novel                                    biography of Unknown Indian is
                                                          dedicated to his ................... .
    (D) A campus novel
19. Who is the narrator in Browning’s                     (A) Memory of the British Empire

    poem ‘My Last Duchess’ ?                                    in India

    (A) The King of Spain                                 (B) Contribution to the freedom
                                                                struggle
    (B) The Prince of Wales

    (C) The Duke of Ferrara                               (C) Intellectual and moral life

    (D) The Earl of Rochester                             (D) Stay in England

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23. Who is the first American dramatist         27. The concept of Negative Capability
    to ever receive the Nobel Prize ?               is said to have been coined
    (A) Tennessee Williams                          by .................... .

    (B) Eugene O’Neill                              (A) P.B. Shelley

    (C) Edward Albee                                (B) John Keats

    (D) Arthur Miller                               (C) William Wordsworth
24. Which of the following ages does                (D) S.T. Coleridge
    Pope belong to ?
                                                28. Mahatma Gandhi set to the task
    (A) Romantic Age                                of making himself an English
    (B) Restoration Age                             Gentleman in .................. .

    (C) Neo-classical Age                           (A) London

    (D) Caroline Age                                (B) America
25. Vowels of English are produced                  (C) South Africa
    with .................. .
                                                    (D) Bengal
    (A) Complete closure
                                                29. Scholastic, familial, religious,
    (B) Close approximation                         publishing and distribution, cultural,
    (C) Open approximation                          information and news etc. and their

    (D) Complete oral closure                       various associated institutions
                                                    comprise, in Althusserian theory
26. Eugene O’Neill’s play on the
                                                    is ................. .
    psychology of colonialism and
    imperialism is .................... .           (A) The            Independent        Social

    (A) Desire Under the Elms                              Formations

    (B) The Room                                    (B) The Repressive State Apparatus

    (C) Emperor Jones                               (C) The Ideological State Apparatus

    (D) The Father                                  (D) The Natural Progression

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30. Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the             34. Who, among the following poets,
    Earth is about ................... .           wrote, ‘When Lilacs Last in the
    (A) Postcolonialism                            Dooryard Bloom’d ?

    (B) Postmodernism                              (A) Henry David Thoreau

    (C) New Historicism                            (B) Walt Whitman

    (D) Queer Theory                               (C) Dylan Thomas

31. What is the main object of                     (D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
    fundamental research ?                     35. A wh-question in English is spoken
    (A) To solve social problems                   with a .................. .
    (B) To solve educational problems              (A) Falling tone
    (C) To solve commercial problems               (B) Rising tone
    (D) To advance the frontiers of                (C) Falling-rising tone
        knowledge
                                                   (D) Rising-falling tone
32. Who wrote The Jungle Book ?
                                               36. Who is the author of Theatre of the
    (A) Salman Rushdie                             Hindus ?
    (B) Rudyard Kipling                            (A) H.H. Wilson
    (C) Raja Rao                                   (B) G.H. Wells
    (D) Khushwant Singh
                                                   (C) Aniah Gowda
33. Salman Rushdie’s novel, Shame is
                                                   (D) A.B. Keith
    written on ................... .
                                               37. Myth       criticism          is   associated
    (A) The racial issues in England
                                                   with ................. .
    (B) The racial issues in America
                                                   (A) Northrop Frye
    (C) The political situation in
                                                   (B) John Crowe Ransom
        Pakistan
                                                   (C) Michel Foucault
    (D) The rise of Christianity in the
        world                                      (D) Dr. Samuel Johnson

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38. A self-willed girl who attended               Direction (Q. Nos. 41 to 44) :
    London and Cambridge Universities
                                                      Read the passage and answer
    for three years and came without
    degree and later became a famous                  the questions given below it :
    poet ?                                            Waverley A novel by Sir Walter
    (A) Miss S. Chatopadeya                           Scott, published anonymously in
    (B) Sarojini Naidu                                1814. Scott had worked on the book

    (C) Cornelia Sorabji                              intermittently since 1805.

    (D) Toru Dutta                                    Edward Waverley, the hero, has
39. Which of the following texts is                   been brought up partly by his uncle,
    mentioned by Edward Said in                       Sir Edward Digby, who has Jacobite
    Culture and Imperialism (1994) as                 sympathies. When Edward receives
    a “prototypical modern-realist novel
                                                      his commission in the army and
    ..... and certainly not accidentally it
                                                      joins his regiment in Scotland, he
    is about a European who creates a
    fiefdom for himself on a distant non-             visits Digby’s friend Bradwardine,
    European island” ?                                another Jacobite, and is attracted to
    (A) Robinson Crusoe                               Rose,    Bradwardine’s       gentle

    (B) Treasure Island                               daughter. Waverley’s romantic
                                                      disposition leads him to visit the
    (C) Gulliver’s Travels
                                                      Highlands     and    seek    out   a
    (D) Heart of Darkness
                                                      freebooting character. Donald Bean
40. Green studies is another name
                                                      Lean, and there he meets Fergus
    for ................... .
                                                      Mac-Ivor and his beautiful sister
    (A) Eco Criticism
                                                      Flora, both ardent Jacobites and
    (B) Postcolonial Criticism                        active in the Stuart cause. His
    (C) Cultural Studies                              connection with the Jacobites gets
    (D) Feminist Criticism                            Waverley into trouble with his

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colonel. An incipient mutiny is laid           41. What makes Waverley visit the
at his door and he is cashiered; the               Highland ?
intervention of Rose, who is devoted
                                                   (A) His uncle’s order
to him, saves him from prison. But
injustice leads him to join the other              (B) His romantic disposition
side; he is encouraged by Flora and
                                                   (C) An incipient mutiny
well   received     by   the   Young
Pretender.     At   the Battle      of             (D) Battle of Prestonpans

Prestonpans the Jacobite forces are            42. Who saves Waverley from going to
routed; but Waverley saves the life                prison ?
of Colonel Talbot, a family friend,
                                                   (A) Sir Edward Digby
who secures a pardon for him. The
other Jacobite prisoners are severely              (B) Bradwardine
dealt with and Fergus Mac-Ivor is
                                                   (C) Rose
convicted of high treason. Waverley,
meanwhile, is rejected by the                      (D) Colonel Talbot

beautiful Flora, who enters a                  43. What did the success of the novel
convent when Fergus is executed;                   Waverley do to Scott’s career ?
eventually he marries Rose.
                                                   (A) He turned decisively from
Waverley was enormously popular:
                                                       Poetry to Fiction
four editions were printed and sold
in the first year of publication alone.            (B) He turned from Fiction to
Its success turned Scott’s career                      Poetry
decisively from poetry to fiction, and
                                                   (C) He turned into a Jacobite
all his subsequent novels were
described as being ‘by the author of               (D) He turned into a Jacobite

Waverley’.                                             Sympathizer

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44. The meaning of the word anonymous             48. Which of the following poems was
    is ................. .
                                                      not written by John Donne ?
    (A) Known origin
                                                      (A) The Good-Morrow
    (B) Family name

    (C) Unanimous                                     (B) The Extasie

    (D) Unknown origin                                (C) The Definition of Love
45. What is the main motif for
                                                      (D) A Hymn to Christ
    research ?

    (A) Desire to be of service of society        49. From the following list, select the

    (B) Refinement of techniques of                   author, who commented critically on
           research                                   the limitations of Indian scholarship
    (C) Curiosity for unknown                         on classical drama of India ?
    (D) Study for more knowledge
                                                      (A) Wilson S.H.
46. Salman Rushdie’s The Jaguar Smile
    is a ............... .                            (B) Max Muller

    (A) Travelogue                                    (C) Henry H. Wells
    (B) Essay
                                                      (D) M.H. Abrams
    (C) Satire
                                                  50. The number of cardinal vowels, as
    (D) Novel
                                                      devised by Daniel Jones, is ........... .
47. V.S. Naipaul’s novel, The Mystic
    Masseur is set in .................. .            (A) Six
    (A) Trinidad
                                                      (B) Eight
    (B) Paris
                                                      (C) Five
    (C) Washington

    (D) Mumbai                                        (D) Seven

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51. Liberal       Humanism            sees   the        55. The word sing-song is an example
     individual as .............. .
                                                            of ............... .
     (A) A      postponement           of    the
                                                            (A) Acronym
          humanist ideal

     (B) An effect of omnipresent power                     (B) Reduplication

     (C) Unified and self-determining                       (C) Blending
     (D) The category individual is
                                                            (D) Compounding
          rejected altogether

52. Who wrote Literature and Dogma ?                    56. In which play did the French

     (A) Matthew Arnold                                     dramatist Jean Anouilh modernize

     (B) William Hazlitt                                    the Greak myth ?

     (C) Lord Tennyson                                      (A) O’Edipus at Colonous

     (D) Alexander Pope                                     (B) The Mourning Becomes Electra
53. Who is the author of the book India
                                                            (C) Antigone
     Recalled ?

     (A) Sri Aurobindo                                      (D) Trojen Women

     (B) Rabindranath Tagore                            57. Studying a text without taking into
     (C) Cornelia Sorabaji                                  account any outside influence is one
     (D) Sarojini Naidu                                     of the main features of ................ .
54. Edward Said talks about ............. .
                                                            (A) New Historicism
     (A) Orientalism
                                                            (B) Marxist Criticism
     (B) Modernism
                                                            (C) Phenomenological Criticism
     (C) New Historicism

     (D) Historicism                                        (D) Formalistic Criticism

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58. Critically analysing realism, which             61. Cornelia Sorabaji and Sarojini
    of the following terms suggests not                 Naidu were prominent poets in

    simply that texts come to a literal                 public life associated with ............. .

    close but that their formal design or               (A) Women’s causes and politics

    narrative movement constructs a                            during British rule

    position for the reader that reinforces             (B) Freedom and politics during
    a dominant view of the world ?                             British rule

    (A) Closure                                         (C) Family cause politics during
                                                               British rule
    (B) Code
                                                        (D) Personal causes and politics
    (C) Cognitive Mapping                                      during British
    (D) Competence                                  62. Adopt, Adapt and Adept are phases
59. Spenser’s Epithalamion is :                         in .................. .

    (A) An elegy                                        (A) Postcolonialism

    (B) A narrative poem                                (B) Modernism

                                                        (C) New Historicism
    (C) A wedding hymn
                                                        (D) Culture studies
    (D) A sonnet
                                                    63. Who wrote the biography, The Great
60. R.K. Narayan’s first novel, Swami
                                                        Indian Way : A Life of Mahatma
    and Friends was published in ......... .
                                                        Gandhi ?
    (A) 1930                                            (A) Mulk Raj Anand
    (B) 1932                                            (B) Raja Rao

    (C) 1935                                            (C) Nirad Chaudhari

    (D) 1938                                            (D) R.K. Narayan

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64. In John Dryden’s “Essay on                 67. Select from the list the title of the
    Dramatic Poesy”, who represents                book by Edward Said which
    Dryden ?
                                                   discusses the relationship between
    (A) Lisideius                                  imperial culture and development of
    (B) Eugenius                                   novel.

    (C) Neander                                    (A) The Rise of Novel
    (D) Crites                                     (B) Fiction and Form
65. “My Mind, My Soul grow longer
                                                   (C) Novel and Culture
    than all space.
                                                   (D) Culture and Imperialism
    Time Founders in that vastness glad
    and nude”.                                 68. In which city was James Joyce’s

    These poetry lines are written                 novel, Ulysses published on 2nd

    by ................. .                         February 1922 ?

    (A) Rabindranath Tagore                        (A) London

    (B) Bankim Chunder Chaterjee                   (B) New York
    (C) Sri Aurobindo                              (C) Paris
    (D) Sarojini Naidu
                                                   (D) Munich
66. In which among the following, the
                                               69. Milton’s Paradise Regained is a
    author is replaced by reader as the
                                                   sequel of :
    central agency in criticism ?
                                                   (A) Samson Agonistes
    (A) Deconstruction

    (B) Applied Linguistics                        (B) Lycidas

    (C) Poststructuralism                          (C) Paradise Lost

    (D) Structuralism                              (D) Aeropagitica

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70. Which of the following words is an                 74. The term ‘foregrounding’ is associated
     example of blending ?                                  with .............. .
     (A) Smog                                               (A) Marxist School
     (B) Telephone                                          (B) The Prague School
     (C) Immoral                                            (C) Reader-Response School
     (D) Wonderful                                          (D) Feminist School
71. A minimal distinctive unit in the
                                                       75. Which foreign publishing house first
     sound system of a language is
                                                            published Tagore’s translation of
     called ................... .
                                                            Gitanjali ?
     (A) Allophone
                                                            (A) Penguin Random
     (B) Free Morpheme
                                                            (B) Harper Collins
     (C) Phoneme
                                                            (C) Oxford University Press
     (D) Bound Morpheme
                                                            (D) Macmillain London
72. T.S. Eliot’s first play was ............. .
                                                       76. The words, “an architect by
     (A) Murder in the Cathedral
                                                            profession, he gave to his novels a
     (B) Family Reunion
                                                            design that was architectural,
     (C) The Cocktail Party                                 employing each circumstance in the
     (D) Sweeney Agonistes                                  narrative to one accumulated effect”
                                                            speak volumes of the craftsmanship
73. The conjunction neither—nor is an
                                                            of ................... .
     example of ................... .

     (A) Syntactic negation                                 (A) Thomas Hardy

     (B) Morphological negation                             (B) William Thackeray

     (C) Discourse negation                                 (C) George Orwell

     (D) Textual negation                                   (D) James Joyce

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77. Who succeeded Wordsworth as the               80. Who, among the following poets,
    Poet Laureate ?
                                                      wrote the poem entitled ‘To Brooklyn
    (A) Robert Browning                               Bridge’ ?
    (B) Alfred Lord Tennyson
                                                      (A) Hart Crane
    (C) Matthew Arnold
                                                      (B) Sylvia Plath
    (D) Elizabeth Barret Browning
                                                      (C) Dylan Thomas
78. The theorist who discusses about
    ‘actual reader’ and ‘implied reader’              (D) E.E. Cummings
    is ................. .
                                                  81. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein
    (A) Roman Ingarden
                                                      is an example of ................ .
    (B) Martin Heidegger
                                                      (A) Historical novel
    (C) Woolfgang Iser
                                                      (B) Gothic novel
    (D) Walter Benjamin

79. Jacques Derrida draws attention to                (C) Picaresque novel
    the necessity of borrowing one’s
                                                      (D) Epistolary novel
    concepts from the text of a heritage
    which is more or less coherent or             82. Sir David Lyndsay’s Satyre of the
    ruined. He argues that therefore                  Thrie Estatis is called ............... .
    every discourse is ................. .
                                                      (A) Miracle Play
    (A) Play
                                                      (B) Mystery Play
    (B) Logocentric
                                                      (C) An Interlude
    (C) Bricoleur

    (D) Postmodern                                    (D) Morality Play

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83. The Japanese film version of             86. Frederic Jameson’s view that third
    Macbeth done by Akira Kurosava               world texts are necessarily national
                                                 allegories has been critiqued by
    was titled as ................ .
                                                 Aijaz Ahmad primarily by which of
    (A) Throne of Blood                          the following arguments ?
    (B) Rave Macbeth                             (A) The non-viability of a homo-
                                                        genous notion of the ‘Third
    (C) Joe Macbeth
                                                        World’.
    (D) Shakespeare Retold Macbeth
                                                 (B) The concept of allegory is alien
84. In the sentence, The man who won                    to third world literatures.
    the Nobel Prize is an economist,             (C) Nationalism is a western concept.
    the underlined linguistic unit is
                                                 (D) Most third world texts are either
    a/an .............. .                               religious or melodramatic.
    (A) Adverb Clause                        87. Longinus’ On the Sublime is written

    (B) Relative Clause                          in ................. .

                                                 (A) Essay form
    (C) Noun Clause
                                                 (B) Diary form
    (D) Principal Clause
                                                 (C) Epistolary form
85. Who said that the modern western
                                                 (D) Dialogue form
    world is the grip of so-called
                                             88. Appeals to the Christian Public is
    Discourses ?
                                                 written by ................. .
    (A) Gary Gutting
                                                 (A) Joshu Marshman
    (B) Foucault Michel                          (B) Raja Rammohan Roy

    (C) Jung Carl                                (C) Rama Kant Dubey

    (D) Lacan Jacques                            (D) Brajmohan Majumdar

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89. In which of the following novels does           92. The ‘touchstone method’ was
    the character of Lovelace appear ?                 introduced into literary criticism

    (A) Pamela                                         by ................... .

    (B) Clarrissa                                      (A) Matthew Arnold

    (C) The History of Sir Charles                     (B) Cardinal Newman
         Garrison                                      (C) Walter Pater
    (D) The History of Mrs. Beaumont                   (D) John Ruskin
90. J. M. Synge is known for Paganism
                                                    93. In Foucauldian understanding,
    in his much discussed play ........... .
                                                       power is ................. .
    (A) The Riders to the Sea
                                                       (A) Centred upon the political body
    (B) Man and the Superman                                 of the sovereign
    (C) The Family Reunion                             (B) A state apparatus
    (D) The Wild Duck                                  (C) A productive network that runs
91. Who attributes his novelistic                            through the whole social body
    negotiations of tradition and
                                                       (D) A negative instance whose
    modernity to ‘the double burden on
                                                             function is repression
    the shoulders, the Alps of European
                                                    94. Richard Hoggart is associated
    tradition and the Himalayan of my
    Indian past’ ?                                     with ................... .

    (A) G. R. Desai                                    (A) Dadaism

    (B) Raja Rao                                       (B) Modernism

    (C) Mulkraj Anand                                  (C) Gender Studies

    (D) Aubrey Menon                                   (D) Cultural Studies

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95. “Beauties in vain their pretty eyes                98. Influenced by Saussure, in under-
                                     may roll :             standing language as a system
    Charms strike the sight, but merit                      of structured difference, langue
                                 wins the soul”             signifies ................. .

    In which Canto of ‘The Rape of the                      (A) Specific           utterances     that
    Lock’, do the above lines appear ?                            individuals deploy in everyday
    (A) Canto V                                                   life

    (B) Canto III                                           (B) The natural properties of speech

    (C) Canto IV                                            (C) The imperial languages

    (D) Canto I                                             (D) The formal rules and conventions
96. Which was not the early English                               that organize language
    history play in the following list ?               99. Philip Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’
    (A) The Famous Victories of Henry                       was written in the year :
           the Fifth                                        (A) 1598
    (B) The Chronicle History of King                       (B) 1591
           Lear
                                                            (C) 1579
    (C) Ralph Roister Doister
                                                            (D) 1595
    (D) King Henry III
                                                       100. In which year was Tobias Smollett’s
97. Louise Montrose’s essay “Shaping
                                                            novel, The Adventures of Roderick
    Fantasies” is a fine example
                                                            Random first published ?
    for .................... .

    (A) New Historicism                                     (A) 1744

    (B) Psychoanalysis                                      (B) 1746

    (C) Phenomenology                                       (C) 1748

    (D) Close Reading                                       (D) 1750

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