MAHA SET 2015 Question Paper 2 English

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English
Paper II
Time Allowed : 75 Minutes] [Maximum Marks : 100
Note : This Paper contains Fifty (50) multiple choice questions. Each question
carries Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.

1. Blake’s famous poem ‘The Tyger’ is 4. The concept of Negative Capability
remarkable for its portrayal of the is attributed to ..........
feeling of :
(A) Coleridge
(A) depression
(B) Keats
(B) amazement
(C) Shelley
(C) skepticism
(D) Wordsworth
(D) anger and betrayal
5. Structuralist criticism is influenced
2. Heathcliff is a character in .......
by the ideas of :
(A) Emma
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Jane Eyre
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Vanity Fair
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Wuthering Heights
(D) T.S. Eliot
3. Who wrote ‘Essays in Criticism’ ?
6. T.S. Eliot was born in :
(A) Arnold
(A) England
(B) Tennyson
(B) United States
(C) Pope
(C) New Zealand
(D) Hazlitt
(D) Canada

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7. James Joyce’s Exiles is ............ 9. Who of the following is not an

Eighteenth Century writer ?
(A) a novel
(A) Ann Finch
(B) an essay
(B) Elizabeth Thomas

(C) a play
(C) Elizabeth Tollett

(D) a poem (D) Carol Ann Duffy

8. Which of the following pairs is not 10. The tragic flow of Hamlet is :

properly matched ? (A) indecision

(A) Hanif Kureishi : Buddha of (B) ambition

Suburbia (C) vanity

(D) jealousy
(B) Michael Ondaatje : The English

11. Yeats’ ‘Easter, 1916’ is a poetic
Patient
commentary on :
(C) Vikram Seth : A Suitable
(A) Pagan culture
Boy
(B) Greek civilization

(D) Carol Ann Duffy : Dancing at (C) Irish freedom struggle

Lughnasa (D) Roman civilization

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12. The play Macbeth is set in : 15. Prufrock is a character in a work

(A) France by ............

(B) Wales (A) Shaw

(C) Scotland (B) Terrence Rattigan

(D) Ireland (C) T.S. Eliot

13. D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow (D) J.B. Priestley
grapples with the dynamics of :
16. Who among the following was a
(A) man-woman relationship
‘‘Transcendentalist’’ ?

(B) state oppression
(A) Emerson
(C) the relationship between man
(B) Hawthorne
and God
(C) Dreiser
(D) the aspirations of human soul
(D) Fitzgerald
14. The Country Wife is a play written

by .............. 17. Milton’s ‘‘On His Blindness’ is :

(A) George Etherege (A) an epic

(B) Thomas Otway (B) a mock-epic

(C) William Congreve (C) a sonnet

(D) William Wycherley (D) an elegy

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18. The title The Sound and The Fury 21. Sporus satirized by Alexander Pope

is taken from ................. in his ‘An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to

Dr. Arbuthnot’ in real life was ..........
(A) Julius Caesar
(A) Sir Robert Walpole
(B) Hamlet
(B) King William-III
(C) Macbeth
(C) King George II
(D) Othello
(D) John Lord Hervey
19. Alexander Pope had been attacked
22. According to Aristotle, the soul of a
in verse by ...........
tragedy is :
(A) Queen Caroline
(A) music
(B) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(B) character
(C) Queen Anne
(C) chorus
(D) Elizabeth Montagu
(D) plot
20. Encyclopaedia Britannica was a
23. Who is the author of The Colour
product of ...........
Purple ?
(A) British Enlightenment
(A) Alice Walker

(B) Spanish Enlightenment
(B) Margaret Laurence

(C) Scottish Enlightenment
(C) Margaret Atwood

(D) French Enlightenment (D) Fay Weldon

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24. Epithalamion is a ............... 27. Which is Shelley’s autobiographical

(A) love song poem ?

(B) narrative poem
(A) Alaster

(C) nuptial poem
(B) Adonais

(D) mourning song
(C) Queen Mab
25. Jane Austen’s first novel was ...............
(D) The Cenci
(A) Sense and Sensibility
28. The oft-quoted line, ‘‘Happiness was
(B) Emma
but the occasional episode in a
(C) Mansfield Park
general drama of pain’’ appears
(D) Pride and Prejudice
in ..........
26. The book Seven Types of Ambiguity
(A) Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities
is authored by :

(A) John Crowe Ransom (B) Hardy’s The Mayor of

Casterbridge
(B) William Empson

(C) Cleanth Brooks (C) D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow

(D) Allen Tale (D) Joyce’s Dublimers

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29. The term, ‘Pathetic fallacy’ was
32. For the deconstructionists, meaning
coined by ............
results from .............
(A) T.S. Eliot

(A) The interplay of words used and
(B) John Ruskin

(C) G.M. Hopkins not used

(D) Matthew Arnold
(B) The interplay of words

30. ‘Ethnology’ is a systematic and
used
organized record of .............

(A) animal behaviour (C) The interplay of words not used

(B) human cultures (D) The free play of words used

(C) plant conditions
33. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a fine
(D) universal ethics
example of a .................
31. Structuralism is an intellectual

movement which began in ................ (A) Regional novel

(A) Italy
(B) Campus novel
(B) England
(C) Religious novel
(C) Rome

(D) France (D) Terror-Mystery novel

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34. Le Morte d’Arthur is a poem 37. The Faerie Queene contains ..............

by ............ books.

(A) Thomas Malory (A) 5

(B) 8
(B) Thomas Edison

(C) 7
(C) Thomas More
(D) 11
(D) Thomas King
38. Who wrote ‘‘To err is human, to
35. Bacon’s New Atlantis is ..........
forgive divine’’ ?

(A) a prose romance
(A) Bacon

(B) a satire (B) Lamb

(C) a utopia (C) Addison

(D) a ballad (D) Pope

36. Gaveston is a character in ................ 39. Northrop Frye is associated with :

(A) Myth Criticism
(A) Dr. Faustus

(B) Gender Discourse
(B) Edward II

(C) New Criticism
(C) Richard II
(D) Structuralism
(D) King John

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40. Which of the following is not a 43. Northanger Abbey is authored
Canadian dramatist ?
by :

(A) Beverly Simons
(A) Jane Austen
(B) Carol Bolt
(B) George Eliot
(C) Sharon Pollock
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) Samuel Selvon
(D) D.H. Lawrence
41. The essay ‘‘Commonwealth

Literature Does Not Exist’’ is written 44. Which of the following statements

by : is not true about W.M.

(A) Salman Rushdie Thackeray ?

(B) C.D. Narasimhaiah
(A) Thackeray was born in 1811

(C) A.C. Ward
(B) Thackeray’s finest art is shown
(D) Bruce King
in his pictures of rogues
42. Burgess is a character in the
(C) Thackeray was no cynic,
following play :
though he has often been
(A) Major Barbara
termed one
(B) Candida
(D) Jonathan Wild has been written
(C) Arms and the Man
by W.M. Thackeray
(D) Pygmalion

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45. The Victorian Age in Literature is 48. ‘Two heads are better than one’ is

wirtten by : an example of :

(A) G.K. Chesterton (A) synecdoche

(B) E.V. Lucas (B) transferred epithet

(C) A.G. Gardiner (C) onomatopoeia

(D) Matthew Arnold (D) oxymoron

46. The term ‘rhetoric’ was originally
49. ‘If winter comes, can spring be far
concerned with the skills of :
behind ?’ is an example of :

(A) Effective acting
(A) a polarity question
(B) Public speaking
(B) an alternative question
(C) Production of artistic objects
(C) a rhetorical question
(D) Writing literature
(D) an echo question
47. ‘Around his tomb let Art and Genius
50. ‘O Hamlet ! thou has cleft my heart
weep’. The dominant metrical
in twain’ is an example of :
pattern in this line is :
(A) antithesis
(A) iambic
(B) euphemism
(B) dactylic
(C) hyperbole
(C) trochaic
(D) personification
(D) anapaestic

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