MP SET 2025: State Eligibility Test, English
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51. Which one of the following is not a play 54. Who amongst the following wrote
by Kalidas ? comedies of humour satirising the
eccentricities of human nature ?
(A) Meghdoot
(A) Dr. Samuel Johnson
(B) Malavikagnimitram
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) Vikramorvasiyam
(C) John Dryden
(D) Shakuntala
(D) Alexander Pope
52. Which of the following is not true about 55. The characters—^Ferdinand and Miranda
Aristotle's 'Poetics' ? appear in :
(A) Poetics is a treatise about fifty (A) William Shakespeare's The
Tempest
pages containing twenty six small
(B) Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to
chapters.
Conquer
(B) It is believed to have had a second
(C) Alexander Pope's The Rape of The
part, which is lost. Lock
(C) Aristotle's main concern appears to (D) G B. Shaw's Pygmalion
be tragedy, which in his days was 56. Which of the following is not a play
considered to be the most written by T. S. Eliot ?
developed form of poetry. (A) The Murder in the Cathedral
(D) It deals with the art of speaking. (B) The Cocktail Party
(C) The Journey of Magi
53. Which of the following plays of
(D) The Family Reunion
Christopher Marlowe consists of two
separate plays ? 57. Which of the following is a one-act play
written by G B, Shaw ?
(A) Tamburlaine
(A) Candida
(B) The Tragical History ofDr. Faustus (B) Village Wooing
(C) Edward II (C) Saint Joan
(D) The Jew of Malta (P) The Apple Cart
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58. In which of the following plays does 62. Walt Whitman's poem 'When Lilacs Last
in the Dooryard Bloomed' was written to
Vijay Tendulkar use a traditional semi-
commemorate :
classical form—^Dashavatar ?
(A) the end of the American Civil War
(A) Silence!The Court is in Session (B) the death of President Abraham
Lincoln
(B) Sakharam Binder
(C) the death of President Kennedy
(C) Ghashiram Kotwal
(D) the death of poet's mother
(D) Kamala
63. Who wrote the 'Introduction' to Tagore's
59. Who is the author of the play, book Gitanjali published in 1912 ?
Andha Yug (The Blind Age) ? (A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) W. B. Yeats
(A) Mohan Rakesh
(C) T. S. Eliot
(B) Habeeb Tanvir
(D) Philip Larkin
(C) Dharamvir Bharati
64. Which famous English poet is referred to
(D) Yashpal by William Wordsworth in the following
lines ?
60. To whom is the Indian treatise We are selfish men,
Natyashastra ascribed ? Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
(A) Lord Indra (B) Lord Brahma And give us manners, virtue, freedom,
power.
(C) Bharatamuni (D) Lord Shiva
Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart:
61. The Knight of the Red Cross in Edmund Thou hadst a voice whose sound was
like the sea;
Spenser's Faerie Queene Book I
represents :
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) John Milton
(A) Holiness (B) Deception
(C) Edmund Spenser
(C) Jealousy (D) Cruelty (D) John Donne
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65. Identify the figure of speech employed by 68. In which poem does John Keats refer to
Gray in the following line : the following famous lines ?
'The ploughman homeward plods his 'Up the hill side; and now'tis buried deep
weary way.' In the next valley-glades:
(A) Apostrophe Was it a vision, or a waking dream ?
Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep ?'
(B) Metaphor
(A) The Song of the Nightingale
(C) Transferred Epithet
(B) The Song of the Bold Lover
(D) Simile
(C) The Song of Spring
66. Whom do the following lines in William
(D) The Cricket's Song
Goldsmith's poem 'The Deserted Village'
represent ? 69. From which poem by Robert Browning
'A man severe he was, and stem to view, have the following lines been taken ?
I knew him well, and every truant knew; 'I was ever a fighter, so-one fight more.
Well had the boding tremblers leamed The best and the last !'
to trace. (A) Evelyn Hope
The day's disasters in his moming face.'
(B) Prospice
(A) The poet's father -(C) My Last Duchess
(B) The poet's grandfather (D) In a Gondola
(C) The village schoolmaster
70. Which poem contains the following
(D) The village head
lines by Nissim Ezekiel describing his
life as:
67. Which Indian river is referred to in
'— Philosophy
Andrew MarvelTs famous poem 'The
Poverty and poetry, three
Coy Mistress' ? Companions shared my basement
(A) Yamuna room'?
(B) Ganges (A) A Poem of Dedication
(B) Case Study
(C) Godavari
(C) Background Casually
(D) Brahmaputra
(D) Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
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71. Who is considered the father of the 76. Which of the following is not tme about
modem novel ? Walter Scott's Waverley Novels ?
(A) Tobias Smolett (A) They were written in 18 years
(B) Samuel Richardson
(B) They consist of 27 novels and 05
(C) Charles Dickens tales
(D) Henry Fielding
(C) They cover about 08 centuries
72. George Orwell, the author of the novel (D) They were never published
1984, is the pen name of :
77. Name the author ofthe tale 'The Murders
(A) John Arthur Blair
in the Rue Morgue' which paved the way
(B) Edward Henry Blair
for detective stories in English —
(C) Henry Edmund Blair
(D) Eric Arthur Blair (A) Herman Melville
(B) Scott Fitzgerald
73. Who recounts the story in 'Wuthering
Heights' ? (C) Arthur Conan Doyle
(A) Linton (B) Joseph (D) Edgar Allan Poe
(C) Eamshaw (D) Lockwood
78. Who authored the short stories like,'The
74. 'Pamela' is written in : Gentle Grafter, The Gift of Magi, Roads
(A) Epistolary style of Destiny' ?
(B) Poetic style (A) Edger Allan Poe
(C) Diary style (B) O'Henry
(D) Stream of consciousness style (C) George Orwell
75. Which amongst the following is not (D) Ruskin Bond
written by Charles Dickens ?
79. Where was the famous writer Ruskin
(A) Dombey and Son
Bond bom ?
(B) David Copperfield
(A) Mussoorie (B) Dehradun
(C) Great Gatsby
(D) Great Expectations (C) Jamnagar (D) Kasauli
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80. Which of the following novels opens 84. "To be great is to be misunderstood."
with the lines — "It was the best of Whose statement is this ?
times, it was the worst of times, it was (A) Thoreau (B) Baldwin
the age of wisdom, it was the age of (C) Emerson (D) Eliot
foolishness" ?
85. Who authored the memoir "Must You
(A) Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of
Go ? : My Life with Harold Pinter." ?
Casterbridge
(A) Kate Weinberg
(B) Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two
Cities
(B) Sam Leith
(C) Antonia Fraser
(C) Samuel Richardson's Pamela
(D) Ruth Mitchell
(D) None of the above
86. Among the following who is chiefly
81. De Quincey is well known for writing :
known as a biographer ?
(A) The Citizens of the World
(A) Max Beerbohm
(B) Coaches and their Horses
(B) James Jeans
(C) Confessions of an English Opium
(C) Lytton Strachey
Eater
(D) T. E. Lawrence
(D) Essays of Elia
87. Which of the following is the right
82. Who defined Biography as *The history
chronological order of V. S. Naipaul's
of particular men's lives' ?
Indian triology ?
(A) Goldsmith (B) Lamb (A) An Area of Darkness, India :
(C) Bacon (D) Dryden A Wounded Civilization, India :
A Million Mutinies Now.
83. Which of the following statements is not
(B) India : A Wounded Civilization,
true ?
India : A Million Mutinies Now,An
(A) 'The Tatler' was published in 1709. Area of Darkness.
(B) Publication of 'The Spectator' (C) India : A Million Mutinies Now,An
started in 1707. Area of Darkness, India : A
(C) Steele was bom in 1672. Wounded Civilization.
(D) Addison died in 1719. (D) None of the above
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88. Who characterized literaiy biographies as 92. 'A sentence is an independent linguistic
'mournful narratives' ? form not included by virtue of any
(A) Voltaire grammatical construction in any larger
(B) Edmund Burk linguistic form.'
(C) Mark Twain The above observation has been made by
(D) Samuel Johnson
which of the following thinkers ?
89. Virginia Woolf, in one of her essays says (A) Chomsky
that to write fiction a woman needs two
(B) Bloomfield
things. Find the right combination :
(A) Good quality papers and an (C) Lyons
expensive pen. (D) Sapir
(B) Lots of free time and relaxing
music. 93. Which of the following are the
(C) A room of her own (with key and immediate constituents of the sentence,
lock) and enough money to support 'Poor Mohan ran away' ?
herself. .
(A) Noun phrase and Verb phrase
(D) A long vacation at some exotic
place and good company. (B) Prepositional phrase and Adverb
phrase
90. A. G. Gardiner's pen name was :
(C) Verb phrase and Adverb phrase
(A) Elia
(B) Alpha of the Plough (D) Pronoun phrase and Verb phrase
(C) Sir Roger de Coverley
94. With which one of the following
(D) None of the above
concepts, the ideas of langue and parole
91. Which one of the following would best would bear resemblance ?
describe the nature of relationship
(A) Signifier and signified
between the linguistic unit /b/ with
/p/ ? (B) Readerly and Writerly
(A) Paradigmatic (B) Syntagmatic (C) Competence and Performance
(O) Diachronic (D) Synchronic (D) Succession and Simultaneity
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95. The idea of notional grammar is related 98. To which of the following figures the
to which of the following facts ? observation below belong :
"Except you enthrall me, never shall be
(A) Extralingual categories are
fi:ee Nor ever chaste, except you ravish
dependent on universal facts of
me.
language.
(A) Paradox
(B) Extralingual categories are (B) Metaphor
independent of the more or less (C) Simile
accidental facts of language. (D) Allegory
(C) In so far as language is proven to
99. "He was a man, take him for all in all;
change, it cannot afford to be I shall not look upon his like again."
universal.
The above utterances illustrate the
(D) Language as such is arbitrary. significance of which of the following
categories ?
96. *Flying planes can be dangerous'. The (A) Irony (B) Litotes
above sentence is an example of which (C) Iimuendo (D) Apostrophe
one of the following structures ?
100. In respect of the pronunciation of the
(A) Surface Structure word 'economics', which one of the
(B) Deep Structure following observations is correct ?
(C) Notional Structure (A) The word 'economics' is sometimes
pronounced with the vowel found in
(D) Semantic Structure bet and sometimes with that of the
word beat.
97. 'What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba
(B) The word 'economics' is
that he should weep for her ?'
pronounced with the vowel found in
The above observation is an example of bit.
which one of the following figures of (C) The word 'economics' is
verbal parallelism ? pronounced with the vowel found in
pit.
(A) Polyptoton (B) Antistrophe
(D) The word'economics' is pronounced
(C) Epanalepsis (D) Syhplace with the vowel found in bin.
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101. The first blueprint on English education 104. Match the English newspapers and
periodicals with the year of their
in India was prepared in 1792 by :
establishment :
(A) Lord Macaulay (a) Times of India, (I) 1851
•Bombay
(B) Zachary Macaulay
(b) Calcutta Review (U) 1844
(C) Charles Grant (c) Examiner, Bombay (UI) 1850
(D) William U^lberforce (d) Guardian, Madras (TV) 1838
Codes:
102. "It is my firm belief that if our plans of (A) (a)-(IV);(b)-(II);(c)-(III);(d)-(1)
education are followed up, there will not (B) (a)-(D;(b)-(III);(c)-(H);(d)-(IV)
(C) (a)- ail);(b)-(IV);(c)-(I);(d)-(II)
be a single idolator among the
(D) (a)-(H);(b)-(I);(c)- pV);(d)-(HI)
respectable classes in Bengal thirty years
105. Consider the following statements about
hence." This is a famous statement by : 'Wood's Despatch' and find out the
correct ones :
(A) Charles Grant
1. English was to replace the native
(B) Lord Macaulay languages.
2. The subject of Christian religion
(C) James Mill
would be provided out of school
(D) Lord William Bentinck hours and only if asked for
volimtarily.
3. Teachers must be trained.
103. Soon after the acceptance of Macaulay
4. No need for female education.
Minute on Education, in India, English
5. The establishment of universities.
was made the official language of 6. Extending European knowledge
education in the year. . throughout all classes of people in
India.
(A) 1825 (A) 1, 2, 3 and 5 are correct
(B) 1827 (B) 1, 2, 4 and 6 are correct
(C) 2, 3, 5 and 6 are correct
(C) 1835
(D) 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are correct
(D) 1837
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106. "Notwithstanding the prominent position 109. The growth of the print media in India
given to English throughout the course, accelerated the use of English as a
the results are most discouraging. second language; there were only thirty-
Students, after Matriculation, are found two English dailies in 1937 and the
number increased to. in 1947.
to be unable to understand lectures in
English when they join a college." This (A) forty-two
is an extract from the Report of: (B) forty-seven
(A) Calcutta University Commission (C) fifty-one
(B) The Indian Universities (D) fifty-nine
Commission 1902
110. The first English Language Teaching
(C) Macaulay's Minute Institute (ELTI) was established with the
(D) Wood's Despatch collaboration of the British Council in
1954 in
107. The Calcutta University Commission
(A) Delhi
(1917-19) was strongly in favour
(B) Hyderabad
of. education.
(C) Calcutta
(A) Bilingual (B) Bengali
(D) Allahabad
(C) English (D) Hindi
111. Centre for Contemporary Cultural
108. At the time of Independence of
Studies (CCCS) was founded in which
India, the administration and the
year ?
judiciary of the Republic of India
(A) 1960
used .....language.
(B) 1962
(A) Hindi (B) Urdu
(C) 1964
(C) Bengali (D) English
(D) 1966
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112. The essay 'Culture and Anarchy' is 115. Raymond Williams is interested in the
derived from, the collection of essays whole of culture experience; its meaning
entitled : and
(A) Essays in Criticism (A) Behaviour
(B) Patterning
(B) Tradition and Society
(C) Expression
(C) Mark of Anarchy
(D) Context
(D) Culture and Tradition
116. Which novel of E. M. Forster is an
113. Which critical text of Raymond
analysis of psychological clash between
Williams, traces the evolution of culture
the Indians and the British ?
in England from 18th to 20th Century ?
(A) Howards End
(A) Culture and History of England
(B) A Passage to India
(B) Culture and Mankind
(C) Indiana Jones
(C) Culture and Society
(D) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(D) Evolution of Culture
117. What term was used by Antonio
114. "Understanding Media : The Extensions
Gramsci to signify both 'leadership and
of Man"(1964), was written by : domination' ?
(A) Louis Althusser (A) Anatomy
(B) Marshall McLuhan (B) Hierarchy
(C) Ferdinand Saussure (C) Negotiation
(D) Stuart Hall (D) Hegemony
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118. "Understanding Popular Culture" by John 121. Plato's most systematic comments on
Fiske deals with :
poetry occur in which of the two texts ?
(A) Cultural artifacts as jeans, shopping
(A) The Symposium and Protagoras
malls, tabloid newspapers and TV
game shows (B) The Symposium and The Poetics
(B) Ancient and modem culture theory (C) Ion and The Republic
(C) Enigma in culture
(D) The Republic and Culture and
(D) Cultural study of various countries
Anarchy
119. The function of Amold's Criticism; in
122. To get the complete meaning of the
the broadest sense of the term is to
promote 'culture'; his fimction as a poem, ontological criticism puts
literary critic is to promote that part of emphasis on :
culture, which depends upon
(A) The Texture
(A) knowledge of letters
(B) The Stmcture
(B) knowledge of tools
(C) knowledge of experience (C) The Narrator and the Structure
(D) knowledge of dance (D) The Texture and the Structure
120. Which of the following terms aims to
123. Edward Said applied a revised form of
understand the effects of technological,
historicist critique of discourse of which
economic and demographic factors on
moulding societal structure and critic to analyze what he called 'cultural
superstmcture through strictly scientific imperialism' ?
methods ?
(A) Michel Foucault
(A) Economic culture
(B) Bill Ashcrofl
(B) Demographic study
(C) Helen Tiffm
(C) Cultural materialism
(D) Cultural confusion (D) Gareth Griffiths
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124. Who states that for organic unity the 128. Coleridge speaks of how many types of
events must be connected by 'probability imagination ?
of necessity' ? (A) 4 types (primary, secondary, tertiary
(A) Aristotle (B) Plato and fancy)
(C) Dryden (D) Pope (B) 2 types (primary and secondary)
(C) 3 types (primary, secondary and
125. How many principal sources of the
fancy)
sublime are there, as per Longinus ?
(D) 1 type (primary)
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 4 (D) 5 129. 'Objective correlative', a term,
introduced by T. S. Eliot, was coined by
126. In Essay of Dramatic Poesy which
which American painter and poet ?
character does Dryden himself
represent ? (A) Paul H. Fry
(A) Eugenius (B) M. H. Abrams
(B) Neander (C) Sylvia Plath
(C) Lisideius (D) Washington Allston
(D) Crites 130. The Madwoman in The Attic was a
feminist text written by which of these
127. Who has written the famous text 'In
writers ?
Search of Our Mother's Gardens' ?
(A) Toril Moi
(A) Alice Walker
(B) Elaine Showalter
(B) Barbara Smith
(C) Virginia Woolf
(C) Hester Eisenstein
(D) Judith Squires (D) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
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131. What is the term called, often associated 134. The idea that 'the phono/lexico/
with Jean Baudrillard's notion of the grammatical constituents of a literary
'reality effect' ? work and the differences between
linguistic signs create meaning' is most
(A) Singularity
closely associated with which theory ?
(B) Simulacra/Simulacrum
(A) New Criticism
(C) Homophobia
(B) Objectification
(D) Interpellation
(C) Postcolonialism
132. Who has originally coined the term (D) Structuralism
'Intertextuality' ?
135. Which French structuralist, following
(A) Bloom Derrida, made a useful distinction
(B) Julia Kristeva between 'work' and 'text' ?
(C) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (A) Roland Barthes
(D) Louis Gates (B) Wittgenstein
(C) Lacan
133. In the words of Homi K. Bhabha, what
(D) Freud
is the name for the strategic reversal of
the process of domination through 136. According to Michael Holquist, what is
disavowal ?
the term used to describe the way of
conceiving the world as made up of a
(A) Hypertext
rolling mass of languages, each of which,
(B) Heuristic
has it own formal markers ?
(C) Hybridity (A) Heteroglossia (B) Genealogy
(D) Habitus (C) Empiricism (D) Discourse
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137. Which American critic first used the term 140. Which of the following influential
'New Historicism' in his book theoreticians in Marxist criticism was a
'Renaissance Self-Fashioning : From French Marxist thinker ?
More to Shakespeare' ?
(A) Frederic Jameson
(A) Foucault
(B) Terry Eagleton
(B) Edward Said
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(C) Stephen Greenblatt
(D) Louis Althusser
(D) Bill Ashcroft
138. Which ofthe following concepts is central 141. Which one of the following is a primary
to Edward Said's theory of Orientalism ? source in literary research ?
(A) The economic concept (A) Literary Criticism
(B) The concept of unconscious mind (B) Author's Biography
(C) The linguistic structure of texts (C) Works by the Author
(D) The East is identified as the 'Other' (D) Journal Articles
139. According to Peter Barry's book
142. Which of the following is considered a
'Beginning Theory', what does the term
tool of literary research ?
'Adept Phase' mean in post-colonial
criticism ? (a) Bibliography
(A) The writers and critics follow the (b) Note System
European form and norms to (c) Scientific Tools
describe their experience.
(d) Textual Analysis
(B) The writers modify the forms and
Codes :
norms to their own specifications.
(C) The colonial mind becomes (A) (a) and (b)
independent, creative and really (B) (a),(b) and (c)
'cross-cultural' in expressing its
experience. (C) (c) and (d)
(D) The writers write only about the (D) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
Feminist experiences.
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143. When citing a journal article in the MLA 145. Which one of the following statements is
format, which of the following is the correct following MLA format ?
correct order ? (A) The first line of each paragraph
(A) Author(s).'Title of Article". Title of should be indented one inch from
Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, Pages. the left margin.
(B) Author(s), Title of Journal,"Title of (B) Indentation is not required in MLA
Article", Volume,Issue,Year,Pages. format.
(C) "Title ofArticle". Author(s), Title of (C) The first line of each paragraph
Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, Pages. should be indented half an inch
(D) Title of Journal, Author(s), "Title of from the left margin.
Article", Volume, Issue, Year, Pages. (D) The first line of each paragraph
should be indented one and half an
144. Which of the following statements are
inch from the left margin.
correct ?
(a) DOI is a unique alphanumeric string 146. Given below are two statements :
assigned to identify content online. (1) Author's interviews is a primary
(b) DOI is a random string of numbers source.
assigned to any web page. (2) Literary analyses and criticisms are
(c) DOI provides a persistent link to its secondary sources.
location on the internet. Choose the appropriate option :
(d) DOI is an identifier used only for (A) Both statements (1) and (2) are
identifying books in a library. correct
Codes :
(B) Both statements (1) and (2) are
(A) Only (a) and (d) incorrect
(B) Only (b) and (c) (C) Statement (1) is correct and
(C) Only (b) and (d) statement (2) is incorrect
(D) Only (a) and (c) (D) Statement (1) is incorrect and
statement (2) is correct
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149. Plagiarism detection software checks
147. Which of the following should not be
plagiarism by providing
included in the 'Works Cited' page ?
(A) Similarity Index
(A) Books (B) Citation Index
(C) Context Index
(B) Journal Articles
(D) None of the above
(C) Websites
150. How should you provide in-text citation
(D) Personal Communications
for a short quotation if author's name is
mentioned in the sentence ?
148. APA Style, MLA Style, Chicago
(A) Only the page number should be
Manual, OSCOLA are famously
provided in parenthesis.
known as : (B) Both the author's name and page
number should be included in
(A) Citation Manuals
parenthesis.
(B) Directories ■ (C) Name of the books and the page
number should be provided in
(C) Abbreviation Manuals
parenthesis.
(D) Handbooks
(D) No parenthetical citation is required.
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