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MH SET 2025: 15 June, Paper II, English

  • Date: 15 June 2025
  • Paper code: JUN-03225
  • Series: A
  • Language: English
  • 24 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.   What did Marlowe’s protagonist of
                                               3.   The novel which portrays the ebb
     Dr. Faustus ask Mephistopheles to
                                                    and flow of the mind of the character
     bring to amuse him during the final
                                                    is referred to as .............
     days of his life ?
                                                    (A) Stream-of-consciousness
     (A) Seven Deadly Sins

     (B) Cleopatra of Egypt                         (B) Realistic


     (C) Paramour                                   (C) Existentialist

     (D) Helen of Troy                              (D) Social

2.   Which of the following poems was          4.   Ecriture Feminine is advocated by :
     not written by W. B. Yeats ?
                                                    (A) Kristeva, Julia
     (A) The Rose of the World
                                                    (B) Cixous, Helen
     (B) Byzantium
                                                    (C) Irigaray, Luce
     (C) The Second Coming
                                                    (D) Lacan, Jacques
     (D) For A Dead Lady

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5.   A key figure of the so-called                7.   Who, among the following women

                                                       novelists, portrays daughter and
     Frankfurt School that relocated
                                                       young wife in her novels ?
     under threat from the Nazis, who
                                                       (A) Nayantara Sahgal
     explored culture through combining
                                                       (B) Kamala Markandaya
     Marxist and psychoanalytic theories

     and argued that commodity culture                 (C) Anita Desai

     is a form of mass deception, is :                 (D) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala


     (A) Friedrich Nietzsche                      8.   Raymond Williams refers to William

                                                       Cobbett, in Culture and Society,
     (B) Theodor Adorno
                                                       1780-1950, who believed that the

     (C) Pierre Bourdieu                               working people must be in charge of

                                                       their own educational movements.
     (D) Michel Foucault
                                                       Which English novel is mentioned
6.   The human organ that makes the
                                                       by Williams, in this context, as
     phonatory system is ................ .            having a similar position ?

     (A) Larynx                                        (A) Charles Dickens, Hard Times

     (B) Lung                                          (B) Elizabeth Gaskell, North and

                                                           South
     (C) Tongue
                                                       (C) George Gissing, The Unclassed
     (D) Hard palate
                                                       (D) D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
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9.   The book The Myth of Sisyphus was                     12. The name of the Novelist and the
     authored by ................ .
                                                               novel that won the John Llewellyn-
     (A) Albert Camus
                                                               Rhys memorial prize is :
     (B) Jean-Paul-Sartre
     (C) Friedrich Nietzsche                                   (A) Nirad C Choudari–Passage to

     (D) Soren Kierkegaard                                            England

10. Who         coined            the   concept   of           (B) Kushwant Singh – Train to
     ‘heteroglossia’ ?
                                                                      Pakistan
     (A) Mikhail Bakhtin
                                                               (C) Ruskin Bond – Room on the
     (B) S.T. Coleridge
     (C) William Hazlitt                                              Roof

     (D) John Crowe Ransom                                     (D) Arun Joshi – The Apprentice
11. The normative social ordering of
                                                           13. Duality in human language refers
     identities and subjectivities along
     the        heterosexual/homosexual                        to .......................... .

     binary; the privileging of one as                         (A) Structure at the level of sounds
     natural and the other as deviant is
                                                                      and words
     not a primary concern for challenge
     in ..................... .                                (B) Structure at the level of words

     (A) Foucault, The History of                                     and sentences
            Sexuality
                                                               (C) Structure at the level of sounds
     (B) Sedgwick, Epistemology of the
                                                                      and sentence
            Closet
     (C) Butler, Gender Trouble                                (D) Structure at the level of

     (D) Eagleton, Sweet Violence                                     sentence and paragraphs

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14. Which of the following plays ends          16. The novel written in the form of

                                                   letters is called ...................... .
    with the famous saying,
                                                   (A) Epistolary
    ‘‘The strongest man is he who stands
                                                   (B) Elegiac
    most alone’’
                                                   (C) Picaresque

    (A) Richard II                                 (D) Historical


    (B) An Enemy of the People                 17. The term dialectical materialism is

                                                   associated with .................... .
    (C) Pygmalion
                                                   (A) Karl Marx

    (D) Macbeth
                                                   (B) Richard Hoggart

15. The   Indian     Phrases   ‘‘Datta,            (C) Raymond Williams

    Dayadhwam, Damayata’’ appear in                (D) Colin McCabe


    one of the following poems :               18. The relation between a word and its

                                                   meaning is ................... .
    (A) The Waste Land
                                                   (A) Consistent

    (B) Ash Wednesday                              (B) Logical

    (C) Little Gidding                             (C) Arbitrary

                                                   (D) Coherent
    (D) Gerontion


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19. Edward Said studies Orientalism as :             Direction (Q. No. 21 to 24) :

    (A) Marking a distinction between
                                                     Read the passage and answer the
         pure and political knowledge
                                                     questions given below it :
    (B) Producing knowledge in the
         human sciences that transcends                  I was no doubt at fault in having

         its author’s own circumstances                  gone to that officer. But his

    (C) A     dynamic        intellectual,               impatience and overbearing anger
         aesthetic,      scholarly,      and
                                                         were out of all proportion to my
         cultural exchange between the
                                                         mistake. It did not warrant
         colonizers and the colonized
                                                         expulsion. I can scarcely have taken
    (D) A dynamic exchange between
         individual authors and the                      up more than five minutes of his

         large political concerns shaped                 time. But he simply could not
         by the three great empires-
                                                         endure my talking. He could have
         British, French, American
                                                         politely asked me to go, but power
20. ‘Train to Pakistan’ was published in
                                                         had intoxicated him to an inordinate
    the United States under the title
    ‘Mano Majra’. On the banks of which                  extent. Later I came to know that

    river is this fictional village situated ?           patience was not one of the virtues

    (A) Saraswathi                                       of that officer. It was usual for him

    (B) Yamuna                                           to insult his visitors. The slightest

    (C) Ganga                                            unpleasantness was sure to put the

    (D) Sutlej                                           sahib out.

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Now most of my work would                         shirastedar was more than his

naturally be in his court. It was                 master, as he was his eyes, his ears

beyond me to conciliate him. I had                and     his     interpreter.       The

no desire to curry favour with him.               shirastedar’s will was law and his

                                                  income was always reputed to be
Indeed, having once threatened to
                                                  more than the sahib’s. This may
proceed against him, I did not like
                                                  have been an exaggeration, but he
to remain silent.
                                                  certainly lived beyond his salary.
Meanwhile I began to learn
                                             21. Who lived beyond his salary ?
something of the petty politics of the
                                                  (A) sahib
country. Kathiawad, being a

conglomeration of small states,                   (B) shirastedar

naturally had its rich crop of                    (C) sahib’s peon

politicals. Petty intrigues between
                                                  (D) officers
states, and intrigues of officers for
                                             22. The meaning of ‘sycophant’ is ...........
power were the order of the day.
                                                  (A) a mentor
Princes were always at the mercy
                                                  (B) a strong opponent
of others and ready to lend their ears

to sycophants. Even the sahib’s peon              (C) a servile flatterer

had to be cajoled, and the sahib’s                (D) a guide and philosopher

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23. Who were ready to lend their ears             26. A key argument in Laura Mulvey’s

    to sycophants ?                                   ‘‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative

    (A) Princes                                       Cinema’’ (1975) in the context of

                                                      gender is that ...................... .
    (B) Sahibs

    (C) Shirastedars                                  (A) In a world ordered by sexual

                                                           imbalance, pleasure in looking
    (D) Officers
                                                           has been split between active/
24. What had intoxicated him ?
                                                           male and passive/female
    (A) Wealth
                                                      (B) The split between spectacle and
    (B) Physical strength
                                                           narrative supports the women’s
    (C) Money and property
                                                           role as the active one of

    (D) Power                                              forwarding the story

25. The essay ‘Is There a Text in This
                                                      (C) The woman controls the film
    Class ?’ was authored by ............ .
                                                           fantasy and also emerges as the

    (A) Harold Bloom                                       representative of power

    (B) Edward Said                                   (D) The female protagonist is free

    (C) Elaine Showalter                                   to command the stage, a stage

    (D) Stanley Fish                                       of spatial illusion


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27. Who wrote Mricchakatika, The Little              30. The words Langue and Parole are
     Clay Cart ?
                                                         employed by ................ .
     (A) Bhasa
                                                         (A) Jacques Derrida
     (B) Bhavbhuti
                                                         (B) Gareth Griffiths
     (C) Kalidasa
                                                         (C) Ferdinand de Saussure
     (D) Shudraka

28. ‘‘What we call the beginning is often                (D) Stuart Hall

     is the end
                                                     31. The character Rajam in the novel
     And to make an end is to make a
                                                         Swami and Friends is the son of ...... .
     beginning.’’
                                                         (A) A Businesman
     In which of the poems, do the above
     lines appear ?                                      (B) A Police Officer

     (A) Little Gidding                                  (C) A Farmer

     (B) Burnt Norton
                                                         (D) A Contractor
     (C) Gerontion
                                                     32. One of the distinctive features of
     (D) The Hollow Men
                                                         human language is .............. .
29. Walter Scott is associated with ....... .
                                                         (A) Cultural transmission
     (A) existentialist novel
                                                         (B) Genetic transmission
     (B) historical novel

     (C) epistolary novel                                (C) Effective transmission

     (D) diasporic novel                                 (D) Non-effective transmission

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33. Critical theory of New Historicism          36. The novel One Hundered Years of

    was founded by ................. .              Solitude is fine exemplar for ....... .

                                                    (A) magic realism
    (A) Walter Scott
                                                    (B) social realism
    (B) Leo Tolstoy
                                                    (C) stream of consciousness
    (C) Stephen Greenblatt
                                                    (D) intertextuality
    (D) Patrick O’Brian
                                                37. Vladimir Prop’s ‘‘The Morphology of
34. In which kind would you place Philip            a Folktale’’ was written in the
    Massinger and John Fletcher’s                   year .................... .
    collaborative work A New Way to Pay
                                                    (A) 1925
    Old Debts ?
                                                    (B) 1928
    (A) tragicomedy
                                                    (C) 1930
    (B) farce                                       (D) 1932

    (C) tragedy                                 38. The difference between British

    (D) comedy                                      English and American English can
                                                    be observed ................... .
35. When was Wordsworth appointed as
                                                    (A) Only in vocabulary
    the Poet Laureate ?
                                                    (B) Only in grammar
    (A) 1668
                                                    (C) Only in pronunciation
    (B) 1850
                                                    (D) In       vocabulary,        grammar,
    (C) 1843                                              pronunciation and spelling

    (D) 1802                                              system

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                                                  41. Which is not the play written in
39. Which of the following novels is a
                                                      collaboration by Thomas Middleton
    pre-partition novel that relocates the            and William Rowley ?

    world within and around the Delhi                 (A) The Mayor of Quinsborough

                                                      (B) The White Devil
    based Nihal house-hold ?
                                                      (C) A Fair Quarrel
    (A) Twilight in Delhi
                                                      (D) The Spanish Gipsy

    (B) Ocean of Night                            42. In whose memory, did Alfred, Lord

                                                      Tennyson compose ‘In Memoriam’ ?
    (C) All about H Hatter
                                                      (A) John Keats

    (D) The Serpent and The Rope                      (B) Arthur Henry Hallam

                                                      (C) Lord Byron
40. The book Dominance Without
                                                      (D) Hugh Clough
    Hegemony is authored by ............ .
                                                  43. Which of the following novels is

                                                      written by Susan Edmonstone
    (A) Gyanendra Pandey
                                                      Ferrier ?

    (B) Dipesh Chakrabarty                            (A) Northanger Abbey

                                                      (B) Malmoth the Wanderer
    (C) Ranajit Guha
                                                      (C) The Inheritance
    (D) Sumit Sarkar
                                                      (D) The Surgeon’s Daughter

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44. Lionel Trilling’s essay ‘‘Freud and          46. All India Progressive Writers

     Literature’’ was written in the                 Association was launched on 10th

     year ..................... .                    April, 1936 at ................ .


     (A) 1940                                        (A) Mumbai


     (B) 1942                                        (B) Lucknow


     (C) 1945                                        (C) Delhi


     (D) 1948                                        (D) Bangalore


45. In Code Mixing ................... .         47. A central focus of cultural studies


     (A) Base Language gets mixed with               is the social processes by which


           Supra Language                            knowledge and skills are acquired

                                                     that enable us to be members of a
     (B) Supra Language gets mixed
                                                     culture. This is known as .............. .
           with Base Language

                                                     (A) Agency
     (C) Only one language is used for

           mixing                                    (B) Acculturation


     (D) Incorrect sentence is mixed with            (C) Authenticity


           a correct sentence                        (D) Urbanization

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48. Who, among the following, is                     51. The Citizen of the World is written

    considered       as   the   father     of            by ..................... .

    multiculturalism ?                                   (A) Samuel Johnson

    (A) Paul Yuzyk                                       (B) Thomas Nashe
    (B) David Hardiman
                                                         (C) Edward Gibbon
    (C) Gayatri Spivak
                                                         (D) Oliver Goldsmith
    (D) David Arnold
                                                     52. The terms ‘Mosaic’ and ‘Melting Pot’
49. Which is not the characteristic of                   are parts of ................. .
    good    hypothesis        among      the
                                                         (A) Historicism
    following ?
                                                         (B) Psychoanalysis
    (A) conceptual clarity
                                                         (C) Queer Studies
    (B) simplicity
                                                         (D) Multiculturalism
    (C) brevity
                                                     53. Which of the following awards was
    (D) ambiguity
                                                         given to Anita Desai’s novel, Fire on
50. Checking Theory is a linguistic                      the Mountain ?
    principle that occurs in ............. .
                                                         (A) Booker Prize
    (A) Structural Linguistics
                                                         (B) Nobel Prize
    (B) Generative Linguistics
                                                         (C) Sahitya Academy Award
    (C) Traditional Grammar
                                                         (D) National Academy of Letters
    (D) Systemic Linguistics                                    Award

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54. Which of the following poems was         57. Which of the following is not a novel

    not written by Matthew Arnold ?              that belongs to the trend of magic
                                                 realism ?
    (A) The Scholar Gipsy
                                                 (A) One Hundred Years of Solitude
    (B) The Moon Now Rises
                                                 (B) Ulysses
    (C) Palladium
                                                 (C) Tin Drum
    (D) Dover Beach
                                                 (D) Shame
55. Who among the following was not
                                             58. Who among these is associated with
    the University Wits ?
                                                 Campus Novels ?
    (A) Christopher Marlowe
                                                 (A) Joseph Conrad

    (B) William Shakespeare                      (B) D.H. Lawrence

    (C) Robert Greene                            (C) James Joyce

    (D) Thomas Lodge                             (D) David Lodge

56. Which of the following poems does        59. M. Anantanarayanan’s work, The

    have the Carpe Diem as the main              Silver Pilgrimage deals with ......... .

    theme ?                                      (A) the caste system in India

    (A) The Garden                               (B) the adventures of Jayasurya

    (B) To His Coy Mistress                      (C) the political issues in South
                                                      India
    (C) Bermudas
                                                 (D) the Hindu religious practices
    (D) The Definition of Love
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60. Which of the following plays by Sir            63. Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura opens

    George Etherege mirrors degraded                    with the invocation of goddess ....... .
    moral life in the Restoration period ?
                                                        (A) Durga
    (A) The Way of the World
                                                        (B) Chamundi
    (B) The Provoked Wife
                                                        (C) Tulaja Bhawani
    (C) Love in a Tub
                                                        (D) Kenchaamma
    (D) The Breux Strategy
                                                   64. Who wrote the book entitled Musical
61. Which of the following plays is
                                                        Elaborations ?
    written by Thomas Shadwell ?
                                                        (A) Parth Chatterjee
    (A) The Sullen Lovers

    (B) The Recruiting Officer                          (B) Antonio Gramsci


    (C) The Double Dealer                               (C) Ranajit Guha

    (D) The Plain Dealer                                (D) Edward Said

62. In the sentence I wanna go home,               65. Empirical research deals with ...... .

    wanna is a contracted form of ....... .
                                                        (A) some thoughts
    (A) Want to
                                                        (B) some abstract ideas and theories
    (B) Want him to
                                                        (C) some units
    (C) Do not want to
                                                        (D) some problems
    (D) Want him not to
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66. Roland Barthes Mythologies (1957)            68. A periodical The Rambler, as

    is admittedly an ideological critique            imitation of The Spectator, was

    of ........................ .                    started by .............

    (A) The sacred traditions of Europe              (A) Alexander Pope


    (B) The predominance of literary                 (B) Joseph Addison

           theory                                    (C) Sir Richard Steele

    (C) The ancient Greek and Roman                  (D) Samuel Johnson

           heritage of French Culture            69. The      critic     associated         with

    (D) The language of so-called mass               Postcolonialism is ............... .

           culture                                   (A) Terry Eagleton

67. Which character in Shakespeare’s                 (B) Jean Lyotard

    play speaks the following lines ?                (C) Jean Baudrillard

    ‘‘Cowards die many times before                  (D) Helen Tiffin

    their death the valiant never taste
                                                 70. William Somerset Maugham’s first
    of death but once’’.                             published work is known as ......... .

    (A) Antony                                       (A) Liza of Lambeth

    (B) Macbeth                                      (B) Lady Frederick

    (C) Richard II                                   (C) A Man of Honour

    (D) Julius Caesar                                (D) Of Human Bondage

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71. ‘‘O Lady! We receive but what we             73. The autobiographical experiences of
                                                     growing up as Dalit in the newly
                                   give
                                                     independent India of 1950s, whose

    And in our life alone does nature                title signifies scraps of food left on
                                                     a plate, is the story of ................ .
                                  live’’.
                                                     (A) Omprakash Valmiki
    In which of the following poems, do
                                                     (B) Kancha Ilaiah
    the above lines appear ?
                                                     (C) Namdeo Dhasal

    (A) Christabel                                   (D) Manoranjan Byapari

                                                 74. The term ‘Cultural Materialism’ was
    (B) Kubla Khan
                                                     coined by ................
    (C) Frost at Midnight
                                                     (A) T. S. Eliot

    (D) Dejection, An Ode                            (B) F. R. Leavis

                                                     (C) C. S. Lewis
72. Who claimed English as Sarswati’s
                                                     (D) Raymond Williams
    Gift to India ?
                                                 75. Francois Lyotard is associated
    (A) Jawaharlal Nehru                             with ...................... .

    (B) Mahatma Gandhi                               (A) Postcolonialism

                                                     (B) Postmodernism
    (C) C. Rajagopalachari
                                                     (C) Historicism
    (D) Vijayalaxmi Pandit
                                                     (D) Culture studies

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76. Which of the following is not a short        79. In the sentence The truth is that he

    story by Edgar Allen Poe that was                 did not attend the classes, the
    published in Graham’s Magazine ?                  underlined linguistic unit functions

    (A) Murders in the Rue Morgue                     as .................. .

    (B) The Masque of the Red Death                   (A) Subject

    (C) The Imp of the Perverse                       (B) Direct object

    (D) The Philosophy of Composition                 (C) Indirect object

77. Which of the following poems was                  (D) Complement
    not written by Nissim Ezekiel ?
                                                 80. Case study method believes that .......
    (A) Night of the Scorpion
                                                      (A) all men share common problem
    (B) The Professor
                                                      (B) all men share common nature
    (C) After Midnight
                                                      (C) all men share common fate
    (D) A Time to Change
                                                      (D) all men share common interest
78. Whose comic farce Englishman in

    Paris contested the field with               81. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a

    Sentimental comedy ?                              book entitled .................... .

    (A) Henry Carey                                   (A) Joining the resistance

    (B) George Lillo                                  (B) In Praise of Women’s Bodies

    (C) Samuel Foote                                  (C) Fetishism and Curiosity

    (D) George Colman                                 (D) The Yellow Wallpaper
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                                                       84. That there are differences in
82. Why computer plays an important
                                                          language has been propounded
    role in doing research ?
                                                          by .......................... .
    (A) because of its variability
                                                          (A) Chomsky
    (B) because of its sophistication
                                                          (B) Ferdinand de Saussure
    (C) because of its easy availability                  (C) Halliday
    (D) because of its easy handling                      (D) Van Valin

83. Post-coloniality for Homi Bhabha, in               85. Rahoul, the Hero of Bhabani
    The Location of Culture (1994), is a                  Bhattacharya’s Novel So Many

    salutary reminder of ............... .                Hungers, begins his conversation on
                                                          Gandhism and regrets about his
    (A) The authentication of the
                                                          non-participation in .................... .
         unambiguous         histories       of
                                                          (A) World War I
         decolonial movements
                                                          (B) World War II
    (B) The persistent neo-colonial
                                                          (C) French Revolution
         relations within the ‘new’ world
         order and the multinational                      (D) Spanish Civil War

         division of labour                            86. Who leads the conspirators in
                                                          hatching the plot of murdering
    (C) The need to be monologic rather
                                                          Julius Caesar ?
         than an endless celebration of
                                                          (A) Brutus
         hybridity
                                                          (B) Casca
    (D) The constitution of a field of
                                                          (C) Cassius
         stabilization that is knowledge

         outside of representation                        (D) Cinna

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87. Whose essays are called ‘infinite
                                                  90. In which of the following poems,
    riches in a little room’ ?
                                                      does the poetic line, ‘‘If winter comes,
    (A) Christopher Marlowe
                                                      can spring be far behind’’ appear ?
    (B) Thomas Nashe

    (C) Francis Bacon                                 (A) Ode to a Nightingale

    (D) Charles Lamb                                  (B) Ode to the West Wind

88. Gynocriticism is a term related
                                                      (C) Ode On Melancholy
    to .............. .

    (A) Modernism                                     (D) Dejection, An Ode

    (B) Postmodernism
                                                  91. Who published one of the most

    (C) Structuralism
                                                      influential     works     on    moral
    (D) Feminism
                                                      philosophy entitled ‘The Sovereignty
89. Who has written the collection of
                                                      of Good and Other Concepts’ ?
    short stories entitled, The Cow of the

    Barricades ?                                      (A) James Joyce

    (A) Raja Rao
                                                      (B) Samuel Beckett
    (B) R.K. Narayan
                                                      (C) Iris Murdoch
    (C) Anita Desai

    (D) Kiran Nagarkar                                (D) Henrik Ibsen


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92. The concepts Feminine, Feminist,         95. In the sentence Ten thousand saw
    and Female were introduced by :              I at a glance, the phrase Ten

    (A) Toril Moi                                thousand has been .............. .

    (B) Helene Cixous                            (A) Foregrounded

    (C) Elaine Showalter                         (B) Reduplicated

    (D) Virginia Woolf                           (C) Blended

93. Which of the following poems was             (D) Clipped

    written by Ezra Pound ?
                                             96. Arrange the following books in the
    (A) Gerontion                                order in which they appeared. Use

    (B) The Return                               the code given below :

    (C) The Eye                                  (i)   Politics

    (D) Antique Harvester                        (ii) The State and Revolution

94. The decline of spirit of the                 (iii) The Republic

    Elizabethan drama begins with the            (iv) The Leviathan

    works of :
                                                 Code :

    (A) William Strode                           (A) (ii) (i)     (iii) (iv)

    (B) Ben Jonson                               (B) (iii) (i)    (iv) (ii)

    (C) Thomas Heywood                           (C) (i)    (iii) (iv) (ii)

    (D) John Dryden                              (D) (i)    (iii) (ii) (iv)

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97. Which type of research is Exit poll          99. Which of the following novels has
    survey ?
                                                     theme of Gandhiji’s village based
    (A) an exploratory research

    (B) a descriptive research                       economy ?


    (C) a historical research
                                                     (A) Murugan, the Tiller

    (D) a social research
                                                     (B) Kandan
98. Associated with Julia Kristeva’s

    attempts to combine Saussurean and
                                                     (C) Atlavar House
    Bakhtinian theories of language and

    literature, the conceptual term                  (D) Conflict

    argues that ‘‘any text is constructed
                                                 100. Who is the author of Arcadia ?
    as a mosaic of quotations; any text

    is the absorption and transformation
                                                     (A) Thomas Nashe
    of another’’ .................... .

    (A) Ecriture                                     (B) Sir Philip Sidney

    (B) Discourse
                                                     (C) Daniel Defoe
    (C) Heteroglossia

                                                     (D) William Webb
    (D) Intertextual


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