MAHA SET 2019 Question Paper 2 English

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English
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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.

Directions (Q. Nos. 1 to 4) : links literary criticism to linguistics.

Read the passage and answer It does not function as an

the questions given below : autonomous domain on its own, and

it can be applied to an understanding
Stylistics, a branch of applied
of literature.
linguistics, is the study and

interpretation of texts of all types Sources of study in stylistics may

range from canonical works of
and/or spoken language in regard to

their linguistic and tonal style, writing to popular texts, and from

where style is the particular variety advertising copy to news, non-fiction,

of language used by different popular culture, political and

individuals and/or in different religious discourse. As the recent

situations or settings. The work in critical stylistics, multimodal

vernacular is used among friends stylistics and mediated stylistics has

made clear, non-literary texts may
and relatives, whereas more formal

language, with respect to grammar, be of just as much interest to

lexicon and pronunciation is often stylisticians as literary ones.

used in a cover letter and résumé Literariness, in other words, is here

and while speaking during a job conceived as ‘a point on a cline

interview. As a discipline, stylistics rather than as an absolute’.

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Stylistics as a conceptual discipline 1. Which of the following statements is

INCORRECT ?
may attempt to establish principles

capable of explaining particular (A) Stylistics is the analysis of both

written and verbal language
choices made by individuals and
and can be used to understand
social groups in their use of
literary texts
language, such as in the literary
(B) Stylistics may be applied to all
production and reception of genre,
texts, whether literary or
the study of folk art, in the study
popular, informative or
of spoken dialects and registers, and promotional

can be applied to areas such as (C) Stylistics cannot be applied to

discourse analysis as well as literary discourse analysis and literary

criticism. Common features of style criticism

include the use of dialogue, (D) Stylistics covers language use,

including regional accents and or dialects and accents

ideolects, the distribution of 2. The vernacular is used :

sentence lengths, the use of (A) All the time

particular language registers, etc. (B) In all situations

Therefore, stylistics looks at what is (C) With all listeners

‘going on’ within the language. (D) In informal situations

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3. Stylistics covers : 6. Which novel won 2018 Booker Prize

(A) Oral texts for fiction ?

(A) The Mars Room
(B) Literary and non-literary texts

(B) The Overstory
(C) Written texts

(C) Milkman
(D) Popular texts

(D) Everything Under
4. ‘‘A point on a cline rather than as

an absolute’’ refers to : 7. Which of the following statements

is true about The Importance of
(A) A starting point
Being Earnest ?
(B) An ending point
(A) The author held an ironic mirror
(C) A vast domain
to the aristocracy displaying wit
(D) A gradual change or variation
and paradoxical wisdom.

5. The line ‘‘willing to wound, and yet
(B) It is a tragi-comedy.
afraid to strike’’ is an example of :
(C) It is a dark comedy written in
(A) Parallelism
prose.

(B) Irony
(D) The writer is philosophising and

(C) Anaphora presenting the spiritual ideals

(D) Hip-hop with a didactic approach.

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8. Gregor Samsa is a character from 11. ‘‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’’

Franz Kafka’s : is a story by :

(A) Rudyard Kipling
(A) The Trial
(B) H.E. Bates
(B) The Castle
(C) H.G. Wells
(C) In the Penal Colony
(D) Katherine Mansfield
(D) The Metamorphosis
12. Which critic calls Dorris Lessing ‘‘an
9. Eminent Victorians was authored archeologist of human relations’’ ?
by :
(A) Irving Howe
(A) Roger Fry (B) F.R. Leavis

(B) Norman Douglas (C) G. Wilson Knight

(C) Lytton Strachey (D) T.S. Eliot

(D) Compton Mackenzie 13. ‘‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

10. ‘‘Sunset and evening star And what I assume you shall assume.

For every atom belonging to me as
And one clear call for me !’’
good belongs to you.’’
These lines occur in which of the
These lines are from .................... .
following poems ?
(A) ‘‘Each and All’’
(A) Idylls of the King
(B) ‘‘Song of Myself’’
(B) In Memorium
(C) ‘‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’’
(C) Corssing the Bar
(D) ‘‘When Lilacs Last in the
(D) Morte’ D Arthur Dooryard Bloom’d’’

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14. The Woman Writer and the 17. Which of the following statements
is NOT correct ?
Nineteenth Century Literary
(A) The norms of standard written
Imagination is the subtitle of :
English are maintained by an
(A) The Second Sex international organisation in
the United Kingdom.
(B) The Madwoman in the Attic
(B) English is the third largest
(C) The Sexual Politics language by number of native
speakers, after Mandarin
(D) Man Made Language
Chinese and Spanish.
15. ‘Life Signs’ is a poem written
(C) English is the most commonly
by ...................... . spoken language in the world
if one combines native and non-
(A) Nissim Ezekiel
native speakers.
(B) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) English is one of the six official
(C) Shiv K. Kumar languages of the United
Nations.
(D) Jayant Mahapatra
18. ‘‘True ease in writing comes from art,
16. Which of these languages did not not chance.

influence the development of early As those move easiest who have

English ? learned to dance.’’

The line means :
(A) Germanic
(A) Poets are born
(B) Scandinavian
(B) Poets are made
(C) Latin (C) Poets are not made

(D) Macedonian (D) Poets are a product of history

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19. Who coined the term ‘‘stream of 22. Why is the Jacobean era not called

consciousness ’’ ? the Jameson era ?

(A) Sterne
(A) Because Jacob was the

(B) William James
nickname of King James.

(C) Dorothy Richardson
(B) Because the Church of England
(D) Dostoevsky
decided to call it Jacobean era.

20. Who advocated symptomatic reading
(C) Because Jacobus is the Latin
of text ?
counterpart of the name
(A) I.A. Richards
‘‘James’’.
(B) Louis Althusser
(D) Because the House of Lord
(C) Terry Eagleton
decided to call it Jacobean era.
(D) Lacan
23. Who is generally known as the
21. Wordsworth and Coleridge differed
translator of Homer ?
with each other on the issue of :
(A) Ben Jonson
(A) Poetic diction

(B) John Marston
(B) Intuition

(C) Imagination (C) George Chapman

(D) Reason (D) John Webster

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24. The comedy of humours was based
27. War of the Roses in English history
on the ancient physiological theory
of the ‘‘four humours’’ which were : was fought between the Hosues

(A) Mucus, pus, tears and saliva
of :
(B) Red, black, yellow, green
(A) Lancaster and York
(C) Blood, phlegm, choler and
melancholy
(B) Lancaster and Wessex
(D) Fat, protein, vitamin, carbo-
hydrate (C) York and Denmark

25. Periodical essays of the 18th century
(D) York and Normandy
were primarily centred around :

(A) Coffee houses 28. Which one of the following is NOT
(B) Taverns
written by Charles Lamb ?
(C) Ale houses

(D) The Royal Exchange (A) ‘‘Old and New Schoolmaster’’

26. Fair quiet, have I found thee here.
(B) ‘‘Of Simulation and Dissimu-
And Innocence thy Sister dear !
Mistaken long, I sought you then lation’’
In busie companies of men.
(C) ‘‘Imperfect Sympathies’’
These lines are written by :

(A) John Milton (D) ‘‘A Bachelor’s Complaint Against
(B) Andrew Marvell
the Behaviour of Married
(C) George Herbert
People’’
(D) John Donne
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29. Which among the following poets
32. In a closed vowel :
composed the given lines :
................. The sounding cataract (A) A part of the tongue rises to
Haunted me like a passion : the tall
half-open position.
rock,
The mountain, and the deep and (B) A part of the tongue rises to half
gloomy wood,
close position.
Their colours and their forms, were
then to me (C) A part of the tongue rises to

An appetite. open position.
(A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
(D) A part of the tongue rises to the
(B) William Wordsworth
close position.
(C) Robert Southey
(D) Thomas De Quincey 33. A morpheme belongs to :

30. ‘‘Death, thou shalt die.’’ – This line
(A) The phonological system of a
is an example of :
language
(A) Mime
(B) Fallacy (B) The grammatical and
(C) Paradox phonological systems of a
(D) Parable
language
31. Who, among the following, is NOT
a poet ? (C) The grammatical system of a
(A) Samuel Beckett language
(B) Robert Graves
(D) The pragmatic system of a
(C) Philip Larkin
language
(D) W.H. Auden
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34. George Bernard Shaw, while 36. Which work of Charles Dickens has

commenting on a female character as many as three hundred and fifty
observes that she left her family to six characters ?
begin ‘‘a journey in search of self-
(A) Oliver Twist
respect and apprenticeship to life’’,
(B) A Tale of Two Cities
and that her revolt is ‘‘the end of

a chapter of human history.’’ Here, (C) The Pickwick Papers

Shaw is referring to : (D) David Copperfield

(A) Nora in A Doll’s House
37. In which poem do the following lines

(B) Joan of Arc in Saint Joan occur :

(C) Gertrude Morel in Sons and Then, welcome each rebuff
Lovers
That turns earth’s smoothness rough
(D) Anna in Anna Karenina
Each sting that bids nor sit nor
35. Name the writer who creates the
stand but go !
binary between ‘head consciousness’
Be our joys three parts pain !
and ‘blood consciousness’.

(A) D.H. Lawrence (A) ‘‘The Lotus Eaters’’

(B) John Keats (B) ‘‘Rabi Ben Ezra’’

(C) Charles Darwin (C) ‘‘Thyrsis’’

(D) Erich Fromm (D) ‘‘Ulysses’’

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38. Twenty Love Poems and A Song of 41. In The Inheritance of Loss, the

Despair is a collection of poems characters are trapped in :
by :
(A) Their own world
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) India’s rigid class system
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) Generation gap
(C) Pablo Neruda
(D) Superstitions
(D) A.K. Ramanujan
42. Manohar Malgonkar’s novel
39. The playwright Wole Soyinka is
Distance Drum depicts :
from :
(A) Family life of a doctor
(A) Nigeria
(B) Religious life of rural people
(B) Kenya
(C) Army life experiences
(C) Egypt
(D) City life experiences
(D) The Sudan

43. Which are the passive language
40. The title of ‘‘The Waste Land’’ is

derived from : skills ?

(A) Ishopanishad (A) Reading and writing

(B) The Bible (B) Listening and reading

(C) The Golden Bough (C) Speaking and writing

(D) From Ritual to Romance (D) Listening and speaking

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44. Arnold’s moral touchstones were 47. Aristotle argues that comedy is an

imitation of characters of :
meant to promulgate the ideal of :
(A) Special type
(A) Materialism
(B) Lower type
(B) Symbolism
(C) Higher type
(C) Civility
(D) Funny type

(D) Imagism 48. Which play of Ben Jonson has been
acclaimed as observing to perfection
45. ‘‘Mytheme’’ is a word coined by :
the three classical unities ?
(A) Claude Levi Strauss
(A) Volpone
(B) Roland Barthes
(B) The Alchemist

(C) Jacques Derrida (C) Bartholomew Fair

(D) Jacques Lacon (D) Every Man Out of His Humour

46. The term ‘Objective Correlative’ 49. In which poem does Pope group his

literary rivals and critics together as
appears in the essay :
the general enemy ‘Dullness’ ?
(A) Hamlet and His Problems
(A) ‘‘The Dunciad’’

(B) Metaphysical Poets (B) ‘‘An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’’

(C) Tradition and Individual Talent (C) ‘‘The Rape of the Lock’’

(D) Function of Criticism (D) ‘‘Moral Essays’’

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50. William Congreve’s play The Way of 53. Match the correct pairs by
the World is a : matching the names of the works

(A) Comedy of Manners with the correct name of their

(B) Sentimental Comedy authors :

(C) Romantic Comedy List I

(D) Dark Comedy (i) Queen Mab

51. Christopher Marlowe’s ‘‘blank verse’’ (ii) The Lady of the Lake
that became the staple medium for
(iii) Confessions of an Opium Eater
later Elizabethan and Jacobean
(iv) ‘‘Loneliness’’ and ‘‘After a
dramatic writing was called as
Holiday’’
‘‘mighty line’’ by :

(A) Ben Jonson List II

(B) David Lodge (a) Charles Lamb

(C) Robert Greene (b) Thomas De Quencey

(D) Thomas Nashe (c) Sir Walter Scott

52. Geoffrey Chaucer was trusted (d) P.B. Shelley
and aided by three successive
Codes :
kings Edward III, Richard II
and ....................... . (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(A) Richard III (A) (d) (c) (b) (a)

(B) Henry IV (B) (a) (b) (c) (d)

(C) Edward IV (C) (b) (c) (d) (a)

(D) Henry V (D) (c) (d) (a) (b)

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54. The subject of The Rape of the Lock 57. Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark
draws upon the incident in which is :
Lord Petre snipped off a lock of hair
(A) An Autobiography
of :
(B) A psychological novel
(A) Fanny Browne
(C) Science Fiction
(B) Belinda
(D) A Regional novel
(C) Christine
58. ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ (1942) is
(D) Arabella Fernor
written by :
55. Name the debut novel of Kingsley
(A) Samuel Becket
Amis :

(A) Lucky Jim (B) Albert Camus

(B) That Uncertain Feeling (C) Harold Pinter

(C) Take a Girl Like You (D) Arthur Adamov

(D) The Anti-Death League 59. Which, among the following, is not

a work of Bertolt Brecht ?
56. Who is the author of The Coral

Island ? (A) The Threepenny Opera

(A) Graham Greene (B) Mother Courage and Her

(B) Anthony Powell Children

(C) R.M. Ballantyne (C) Life of Galileo

(D) Angus Wilson (D) Outsider

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60. ‘‘The Witch’’ is a poem written by : 63. What is the name of the king in
Shakespeare’s play Henry IV Part I ?
(A) Isaac Rosenberg
(A) Richard

(B) Wilfred Owen (B) Douglas

(C) Bolingbroke
(C) Walter de la Mare
(D) Edward
(D) Edward Thomas
64. What is common among the
61. ‘‘It is better to have loved and lost, following :

than never to have loved at all.’’ Who (1) If I Die Today

composed these lines ? (2) Atom and the Serpant

(3) The Drunk Tantra
(A) Alfred Tennyson
(4) The Awakening
(B) Robert Browning
All are :

(C) Thomas Hardy (A) Travelogues

(B) Allegories
(D) George Eliot
(C) Satires
62. The poem ‘‘The Land’’ was written
(D) Campus Novels
by :
65. Nayantara Sahgal won Sahitya
(A) W.H. Auden Akademi Award for the novel :

(A) Rich Like Us
(B) C. Day Lewis
(B) The Day in Shadow
(C) Stephen Spender
(C) Plans for Departure

(D) Victoria Sackville-West (D) This Time of Morning

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66. English as a medium of instruction 69. Coleridge’s statement regarding
poet’s ability that ‘‘dissolves, diffuses,
was introduced in India by :
dissipates in order to recreate’’
(A) Charter Act 1793 relates to :

(B) Christian missionaries in 1542 (A) Fancy

(B) Reason
(C) Macaulay’s Minute on
(C) Secondary imagination
Education 1835
(D) Primary imagination
(D) East India Company Act, 1813
70. What is supposed to be conceit in
67. The earliest forms of English were metaphysical poetry ?

brought to Great Britain by : (A) The most heterogeneous ideas
yoked by violence together
(A) Anglo Saxon settlers
(B) Two similar ideas put forcibly
(B) Nordic tribes together

(C) French invaders (C) Two dissimilar ideas stated
separately
(D) Dutch immigrants
(D) Two similar ideas stated
68. Which one is NOT a term used by together

Arnold in Culture and Anarchy ? 71. Xury and Friday are characters
in :
(A) Barbarians
(A) Robinson Crusoe
(B) Populace
(B) Moll Flanders
(C) Hellenists (C) Tom Jones

(D) Philistines (D) Pride and Prejudice

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72. Who is NOT an 18th century Gothic 74. Chaucer’s ‘Book of the Duchess’ is
an elegy for ...................... .
novelist ?
(A) Duchess of Lancaster
(A) Horace Walpole
(B) Duchess of Yorkshire
(B) Laurence Sterne
(C) Duchess of Licester
(C) Ann Radcliffe
(D) Duchess of Wales

(D) William Godwin 75. Which of the following was NOT a
pen name of Walter Scott ?
73. Three sorts of serpents do resemble

thee : (A) Lawrence Templeton

(B) George Orwell
That dangerous eye-killing
(C) Jebediah Cleisbotham
cockatrice,
(D) Captain Clutterbuck
The enchanting siren, which doth so
76. Which metrical device has been used
entice,
by the poet in the following lines ?
The weeping crocodile–these vite
Full many a flower is born to blush
pernicious three. unseen

These lines are written by : And waste its sweetness on the
desert air.
(A) Michael Drayton
(A) Iambic tetrameter
(B) Edmund Spenser
(B) Iambic pentameter
(C) William Shakespeare
(C) Iambic hexameter

(D) Sir Philip Sidney (D) Iambic trimeter

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77. Who, among the following, is NOT 80. Who is known as the Father of
Comedy in Europe ?
associated with The Theatre of the
(A) P.G. Woodhouse
Absurd ?
(B) Ben Jonson
(A) Samuel Beckett
(C) Aristophanes

(B) John Osborne (D) Sophocles

81. Gerald Crich is a character in D.H.
(C) John Ford
Lawrence’s novel entitled :
(D) Tom Stoppard
(A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

78. Pat Barker is the author of : (B) The Rainbow

(C) Sons and Lovers
(A) Sacred Hunger
(D) Women in Love
(B) Birdsong
82. Which novelist echoed the oft quoted
(C) The Regeneration Trilogy lines of Shakespeare : ‘‘As flies to
wanton boys/Are we to gods, They
(D) The English Patient
kill us for their sport’’ ?

79. The three term label for the (A) Charles Dickens in David

consonant /b/ is : Copperfield

(B) Thomas Hardy in Tess of the
(A) Voiceless nasal fricative
d’Urbervilles

(B) Voiced nasal affricate (C) Thomas Hardy in Under the
Greenwood Tree
(C) Voiced bilabial plosive
(D) George Eliot in The Mill on the
(D) Voiceless bilabial fricative Floss

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83. Keats and Shakespeare was written 86. The Golden Gate was inspired by

by : whose translation ?

(A) Middleton Murry (A) Charles H. Johnston

(B) Lord David Cecil (B) Walter W. Arndt

(C) Allardyce Nicoll (C) James E. Falen

(D) Stanley Mitchell
(D) H.J.C. Grierson
87. Which is the main objective of
84. Which among the following is NOT
research ?
a work by Nadine Gordimer ?
(A) To review the literature
(A) The Conservationist
(B) To discover new facts or make
(B) The Urberable Lightness of
fresh interpretation of known
Being
facts
(C) July’s People
(C) To summarize what is already
(D) The Pick Up known

85. The research which is exploring new (D) To get an academic degree
facts through the study of the past
88. Which of these is NOT a dialect of
is called : English ?

(A) Comparative research (A) Yorkshire

(B) Mythological research (B) Welsh

(C) Historical research (C) Bradbury

(D) Philosophical research (D) Kentish

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89. The relevance of behaviourist 92. Which among the following
psychology to language learning was
statements is NOT true in the
questioned by :
context of structuralism ?
(A) Chomsky
(A) Structuralism is an anti-
(B) Skinner
humanist philosophy
(C) Halliday
(B) Structuralism makes an
(D) Fries
attempt to comprehend the
90. ‘‘The formation of the disciplinary
world in terms of structures
society is connected with a number
of broad historical processes.’’ Which, (C) Structuralism argues that
according to Foucault, is NOT a part language is a system of
of the process ? differences
(A) Economic
(D) Structuralism upholds the
(B) Juridico-political
autonomy of human subject
(C) Scientific
93. In Dryden’s ‘An Essay of Dramatic
(D) Mystic
Poesy’’, who speaks for the poet
91. The word ‘‘anagnorisis’’ used by
himself ?
Aristotle does not mean :
(A) Lisideius
(A) Discovery
(B) Eugenius
(B) Recognition

(C) Knowledge (C) Crites

(D) Tragic flaw (D) Neander

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94. In which play did Jonson explain his Direction (Q. Nos. 97 to 100) :

theory of the comedy of humours ? Read the following poem and
answer the questions given
(A) Every Man in His Humour
below :
(B) Every Man Out of His Humour
The snow dissolv’d no more is seen

(C) The Devil is an Ass The fields, and woods, behold, are
green,
(D) Catiline
The changing year renews the plain,
95. In the play The Honest Whore the
The rivers know their banks again,
role of the prostitute is played by :
The spritely nymph and naked grace
(A) Celia
The mazy dance together trace.
(B) Bianca
The changing year’s sucessive plan
(C) Lucy Proclaims mortality to man.

(D) Bellafront Rough winter’s blasts to spring give
way,
96. Research can be classified as :
Spring yields to summer’s sovereign
(A) Basic, Applied and Action
ray,
Research
Then summer sinks in autumn’s reign,
(B) Quantitative and Qualitative And winter chills the world again.
Research
Her losses soon the moon supplies
(C) Philosophical, Historical, Survey But wrteched man, when once he lies
and Experimental Research Where Priam and his sons are laid,

(D) All the above Is naught but ashes and a shade.......

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97. What is the meaning of ‘‘the rivers 99. What is the concept of time as given

known their banks again’’ ? in the poem ?

(A) The rivers are in spate and their (A) Time runs in a linear fashion

banks cannot contain them for both man and nature

(B) The swimmers can swim across (B) Time runs in a circle for nature

and runs linearly for a man
the rivers now

(C) Time runs in a circle for both
(C) The rivers have once again
man and nature
started flowing between their

banks (D) Time is unpredictable and

everchanging
(D) The banks of the rivers were
100. What is the main idea of the
breached but now they are
poem ?
repaired
(A) Life and Death are one and the
98. ‘‘Spring yields to summer’s sovereign
same
ray’’ means :
(B) Life is more precious than
(A) Summer is followed by spring
death
(B) Winter sets in soon after spring
(C) Both Life and death are
(C) Winter sets in soon after precious
summer
(D) Nature, once dead, can renew

(D) Spring is followed by summer itself but man cannot

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