MAHA SET 2015 Question Paper 3 English

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Paper III
Time Allowed : 2½ Hours] [Maximum Marks : 150
Note : This Paper contains Seventy Five (75) multiple choice questions, each
question carrying Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.

Instructions :—
thatched cottages, launching the

Read the following passage
elegantly proportioned rowing

carefully and choose the most
boats, the Kerala villages contain

appropriate alternatives to answer
a most exotic life for the tourist,
the questions given below it :

the stranger, the passing traveller.
The tiny fishing villages of Kerala

A Gauguin world. They also
on the southwest coast are among

contain quite another life of their
the most beautiful I have ever seen.

Scalloped with sandy beaches, own.

shaded by mop-headed coconut Poverty of the degree one finds

palms, studded with charming
there is, perhaps, difficult for

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strangers to grasp. The Western inevitably a merciless deity rules

idea of the Common Man is rather over life. To people brought up on

different from ours. For the the phrase “God is good”, it may

fishermen and fisherwomen that not be easy to accept the Indian

populate the novel Chemmeen, idea, “The Creator is also the

natural forces are grimly real Destroyer”. In Kerala villages that

enemies or friends. It is far from I have seen—where villagers who

a city view of life. The elements have only one cloth to wear—wash

can destroy you and your family; it in a river, canal or local pond,

they can also make it possible to carefully, because they are in a

live.....live for another year, that is. public place, leaving half the cloth

wrapped around the body while the
Under these merciless conditions,

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2. ‘Scalloped with sandy beaches,
other half is wet—the thought that

shaded by mopheaded coconut
anyone has a right to security and
palms, studded with charming

beneficence is less compelling than
thatched cottages’ is an example of :

it is in the West. (A) euphemism

(B) parallelism
1. The author is......................by the tiny

(C) hyperbole
villages of Kerala on the southwest

(D) free repetition
coast.
3. Life is not at all.................for the

(A) fascinated villagers of Kerala.

(A) modern
(B) frustrated

(B) respectable

(C) astonished
(C) comfortable

(D) enfeebled (D) progressive

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6. Which of the following pairs is
4. The author suggests that the idea
incorrect ?
of God is shaped by :
(A) Machiavelli : Il Principe

(A) Mythology (B) Giovanni Boccaccio :

The Decameron
(B) Traditions
(C) Baldassare Castiglione :

(C) Priests Il Cor tegiano

(D) Thomas Sackville : New Arcadia
(D) The conditions of life
7. Which of the following statements

5. The idea of......................is missing in is not correct ?

(A) Browning produced a number of
the villages of Kerala unlike in the
plays in the Bells and

West. Pomegranates series

(B) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
(A) Public sanitation
is authored by Robert Browning

(B) Public welfare (C) In a Gondola is a little lyric

tragedy
(C) Democracy
(D) The Ring and the Book is

(D) Public enterprise written by Tennyson

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8. Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a 10. The acronym ESP contrasts with :

Young Man’ is set in............. .
(A) EBP

(A) London
(B) EDP
(B) Sydney

(C) ELP
(C) Dublin

(D) EGP
(D) New York

9. When a teacher makes changes in 11. English belongs to the.....................

published texts to make them more branch of the Indo-European

suitable for a particular group of
language family.

learners, this is called.................. .
(A) Celtic
(A) Adoption

(B) Germanic
(B) Paraphrase

(C) Balto-slavic
(C) Adaptation

(D) Abridgement (D) Armenian

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12. Britain established its first penal 14. Jude the Obscure is Thomas

colony in Australia in the................ Hardy’s :

century. (A) last novel

(A) 19th (B) first novel

(B) 18th (C) collection of poems

(D) collection of short stories
(C) 16th

15. Which of the following pairs is
(D) 15th

incorrect ?
13. Behaviourism was used by...................
(A) The History of Emily
to explain first language acquisition.
Montague : Frances Brooke
(A) Halliday
(B) Time Machine : H.G. Wells

(B) Leech
(C) Cato : Joseph Addison

(C) Chomsky
(D) The Crown of Wild Olive :

(D) Skinner W.H. Pater
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16. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, 18. The British author who helped

Lend me your ears;
R.K. Narayan to publish his first

I come to bury Caesar;
novel is :
not to praise him.
(A) William Golding
These words are uttered by :

(B) E.M. Forster
(A) Antony

(B) Brutus (C) Graham Greene

(C) Cassius
(D) John Galsworthy

(D) Horatio
19. Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities deals
17. The famous phrase “dissociation of
with the :
sensibility” was coined by :

(A) Russian Revolution
(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) French Revolution
(B) John Keats

(C) American Revolution
(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) P.B. Shelley (D) Renaissance and Reformation

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20. Matthew Arnold wrote : 22. ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was a

phrase used by :
(A) Culture and Anarchy

(A) William James
(B) Culture and Society

(B) W.K. Wimsatt
(C) Literature and Society

(C) Erich Auerbach

(D) French Revolution
(D) Josephine Miles

21. Which Indian poet wrote the poem
23. The following novel has a section as

‘Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher’ ?
‘Scylla and Charybdis’ :

(A) Nissim Ezekiel
(A) Ulysses

(B) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Stephen Hero

(C) Jayant Mahapatra (C) Mrs. Dalloway

(D) Kamala Das (D) A Room of One’s Own

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24. Who of the following was not a Beat 26. Which of the following is not an

‘Imagist’ poet ?
writer ?

(A) T.E. Hulme
(A) Allen Ginsberg
(B) H.D.

(B) James Joyce
(C) J.G. Fletcher

(C) Gregory Corso (D) M. Drayton

(D) Jack Kerouac 27. Which of the following is not

correct ?
25. The lines; ‘I happy am,/Joy is my
(A) Senecan tragedy was written to
name.’/Sweet joy befall thee,’ are
be recited rather than acted
written by :
(B) Thomas Kyd has written The

(A) William Wordsworth Spanish Tragedy

(B) S.T. Coleridge (C) Christopher Marlowe has

written The Jew of Malta
(C) William Blake
(D) The Revenge Tragedy is a 20th
(D) John Keats
Century addition to tragedy

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28. Who of the following was not 30. The lines “Bliss was it in that dawn

associated with the ‘Transcendental to be alive,/But to be young was very

Club’ ? heaven,” are written by :

(A) R.W. Emerson (A) Wordsworth

(B) Bronson Alcott (B) Coleridge

(C) Philip Roth (C) Keats

(D) Shelley
(D) Nathaniel Hawthorne

31. ‘Slum-landlordism’ is shown in the
29. The title of the final section of T.S.

following play :
Eliot’s The Waste Land is :

(A) Widower’s Houses
(A) What the Thunder Said

(B) Arms and the Man
(B) Death by Water

(C) Candida
(C) The Fire Sermon

(D) The Doctor’s Dilemma
(D) The Burial of the Dead

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34. German author Wolfgang Hohlbein
32. Which of the following is not a

is chiefly associated with :
correct match ?

(A) Science fiction

(A) Swift : The Tale of a Tab
(B) Pop literature

(B) Pope : Essay on Man (C) Migrant literature

(C) Pope : The Dunciad (D) German-American literature

35. Which of the following is a
(D) Donne : Life of Johnson
mismatched pair ?

33. Millamant is a character in :
(A) Marquis de Sade : Justine

(A) The Country Wife (Sade)

(B) Voltaire : Candide, Zadig ou la
(B) The Plain Dealer
Destinee

(C) The Way of the World
(C) Montesquieu : Persian Letters

(D) Candida (D) Emile Zola : La Petite Fadette

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36. Hermann Hesse belonged to : 38. In Search of Lost Time is written

by ................ .
(A) Spain

(A) Emile Zola

(B) Portugal
(B) Marcel Proust

(C) Germany
(C) André Gide

(D) Russia
(D) Victor Hugo

37. Guy de Maupassant is the author 39. The term ‘Carpe Diem’

means ............. .
of ............... .

(A) Praise of life in the country
(A) The Three Musketeers

(B) Description of idyllic nature
(B) The Red and the Black

(C) Seize the day

(C) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(D) Going away from material

(D) The Necklace things

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40. Which of the following pairs is 42. Praneshacharya is the protagonist

of :
mismatched ?

(A) Tale Danda
(A) Franz Kafka : The Trial

(B) Nagamandala
(B) Franz Kafka : Metamorphosis
(C) Hayavadana
(C) Camus : The Myth of Sisyphus
(D) Samskara

(D) Samuel Beckett : Ubu Roi (Ubu
43. Keats in his ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’

the King)
anlayses the issue of :

41. Which of the following is not an (A) the state of changelessness and

example of ‘dystopia’ ? permanence

(B) human weaknesses
(A) Brave New World

(C) the relationship between man
(B) New Atlantis
and nature

(C) 1984
(D) man’s ability to transcend his

(D) The Handmaid’s Tale
limitations

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44. For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, 45. Celia in As You Like It is the

daughter of :
Sunk though he be beneath the

watery floor (A) Jonathan

(B) Bill
So sinks the day-star in the Ocean

(C) Antonio
bed.”

(D) Fredrick
In these lines from Milton’s ‘Lycidas’,

46. The line “The paths of glory lead but
the expression ‘day-star’ refers to

to the grave” occurs in :
the :

(A) Lycidas
(A) King

(B) Elegy Written in a Country
(B) Prince
Churchyard

(C) Sun
(C) The Scholar Gypsy

(D) Mars
(D) Burnt Norton

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47. The principal character in Paradise 49. Who wrote The Book of the Duchess ?

Regained is :
(A) Marlowe

(A) Adam
(B) Chaucer

(B) David
(C) Boccaccio

(C) Christ

(D) Kyd
(D) Moses

50. The white girl in The Hairy Ape
48. The line “Slings and arrows of

is :
outrageous fortune” occurs in :

(A) Miss Nancy
(A) Hamlet

(B) Miss Rebecca
(B) The White Devil

(C) Arms and The Man (C) Miss Irene

(D) Tamburlaine (D) Miss Mildred

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51. The novel The Ambassadors is 54. A kind of novel that appears to be

written by : an autobiography is called.......... .

(A) William Faulkner (A) Metafiction

(B) William Dean Howells (B) Memoir novel

(C) Henry James (C) Mock-heroic novel

(D) Mark Twain (D) Picaresque novel

52. Eliza Haywood is the writer 55. ...................is one of the known

of .............. . members of the Prague School.

(A) Memoirs of Mrs. Sidney (A) Rene Wellek

Biddulph (B) Jacques Derrida

(B) The History of Jemmy and (C) Sigmund Freud
Jenny Jessamy
(D) Michel Foucault
(C) The Female Quixote
56. Sigmund Freud suggested a three-
(D) Evelina part structural model of the psyche,

53. Matthew Prior’s Carmen Seculare dividing it into the ego, the super-

(1700) is a eulogy to............. . ego and.............. .

(A) King George II (A) The libido

(B) King William III (B) The id

(C) King George I (C) The eros

(D) The thanatos
(D) King Charles I

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57. Who proclaimed, “There is nothing
60. Spenser’s eighty sonnets in his
outside the text” ?
Amoretti are addressed to................ .
(A) Lacan

(B) Foucault (A) Elizabeth Boyle

(C) Derrida
(B) Penelope

(D) Barthes
(C) Laura
58. Who among the following is not a

modernist writer ? (D) Beatrice

(A) James Joyce
61. For Wordsworth, poetry takes
(B) Joseph Conrad
its origin from emotion recollected
(C) Virginia Woolf
in :
(D) Oscar Wilde

59. The term, New Historicism was (A) anxiety

coined by.................... .
(B) serenity
(A) Derrida
(C) instinct
(B) Foucault

(C) Raymond Williams (D) tranquillity

(D) Stephen Greenblatt

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62. Bacon’s New Atlantis was influenced
65. F.R. Leavis considers...........................
by.................. .
as the inaugurator of the great
(A) Aristotle’s Poetics

tradition of fiction in England.
(B) More’s Utopia

(C) Plato’s Republic (A) Jane Austen

(D) Lyly’s Euphues
(B) Charles Dickens
63. Wordsworth in his Preface defines a

poet as a : (C) Henry Fielding

(A) Prophet of new age
(D) Daniel Defoe
(B) Visionary

(C) Man speaking to men 66. Which of the following is not a

(D) Hero ‘Partition Novel’ ?

64. Paterson’s Waltzing Matilda’ is
(A) The Shadow Lines
a/an :

(A) Ode (B) Looking Through Glass

(B) Ballad
(C) Ice Candy Man
(C) Sonnet

(D) Brick Lane
(D) Essay

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67. The famous ‘toilet scene’ appears 69. Which of the following titles does not

in :
fall in the category of Paul Scott’s
(A) Romeo and Juliet
‘Raj Quartet’ ?
(B) All is Well that Ends Well
(A) The Siege of Krishnapur
(C) Merry Wives of Windsor

(D) The Rape of the Lock (B) The Jewel in the Crown

68. Which of the following statements
(C) The Day of the Scorpion
is not true ?
(D) The Towers of Silence
(A) Rossetti delves in the folklore

and diablerie of the middle 70. “Courage ! he said, and pointed
ages
toward the land.”
(B) Henry Constable is a minor Pre-

Raphaelite poet In this opening line of, Tennyson’s

(C) Morris busies himself in legends ‘Lotos Eaters’, ‘he’ refers to :
and sagas
(A) The poet
(D) The Pre-Raphaelite movement

is concerned primarily with (B) God

neither democratic ideals nor
(C) Ulysses
with scientific and philosophical

problems (D) Achilles

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73. Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer
71. Cardinal Newman is associated
are associated with :
with :
(A) Gender Studies

(B) Third World Feminism
(A) Oxford Movement

(C) Feminism

(B) Renaissance
(D) Phenomenology

74. Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal was
(C) Reformation
started in :

(D) Postmodernism (A) The Caroline Age

(B) The Jacobean Age
72. De Bracy is a character in :
(C) The Victorian Age

(A) Ivanhoe (D) The Postmodern Period

75. Walter Morel is a character in :
(B) Rob Roy
(A) Sons and Lovers

(C) Middle March (B) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

(C) The Plumed Serpent
(D) Pride and Prejudice
(D) Kangaroo

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