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MAHARASHTRA ENGLISH SET – 29 May 2016 PAPER II – MODEL ANSWER KEY



MAHARASHTRA  ENGLISH SET – 29 May 2016
PAPER II – MODEL ANSWER KEY

By Anil S Awad
English Net/SET/SLET Consultant
Email – anilawad123@gmail.com
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Hello Aspirants,
I am herewith posting/sharing the Answer Key for Maharashtra English SET Paper II. This is model answer key and not authentic key. I have tried my best to provide ideal model answers to all the 50 Questions in Paper II.  It is my great pleasure to inform you that almost 42 to 44 questions are directly from my Study Notes and Online Guidance Course. Before moving to the key, let me clear some points –

1)         It is model answer key and prepared by me (Anil S Awad), not final answer key. Please tally the key with the Authentic Key published by the competent authority, when it will be issued.

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Anil S Awad
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1.         Sassure was a key figure in the modern revolutionary studies of……
A)        Language
B)         Literature
C)         Culture
D)        History
Answer – (A) Language
Explanation – Sassure was Swiss a linguist and simiotician 

2.         The most influential of Homi Bhabha’s contribution to postcolonial theory is his notion of ……
A)         Productivity
B)         Orientalism
C)         Hybridity
D)        Liminality
Answer – C) Hybridity

3.         ‘Mythos’ in Aristotle’s Poetics stands for….
A)        Plot
B)         Diction
C)         Character
D)        Music
Answer – A) Plot
4.         ‘Logocentrism’, a term ascribed to Derrida, refers to….
A)         The nature of western thoughts, language and culture since Plato’s era
B)         The nature of eastern thoughts, language and culture from ancient time
C)         the values of liberal humanism
D)        The Values of Enlightment
Answer – A) The nature of western thoughts, language and culture since Plato’s era

5.   ‘Structuralist Poetics’ stresses on…..
A)         Linguistic competence
B)         Literary competence
C)         Critical competence
D)        Ideological competence

Answer – A) Literary Competence
(Answer rectified)  


Reference: Structuralist poetics : structuralism, linguistics and the study of literature /

Main Author: Culler, Jonathan D. (Routledge Series) 


6.         For the New Critics, a poem is…..
A)         A historical document
B)         A well-wrought urn
C)         An expression of author’s personality
D)        A reflection of society
Answer – B) A well-wrought urn

7.         Out of 154 Sonnets, 126 of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to……
A)         Dark Lady
B)         Mr. M.H
C)         Queen Elizabeth
D)        Lady Penelope
Answer – B) Mr. M. H.

8.         The expression “Fair is Foul” occours in….
A)         The Alchemist
B)         The Malcontent
C)         Macbeth
D)        The Broken Heart
Answer – C) Macbeth (ACT One- Scehe I)

9.         ‘Everyman’ is an anonymous…..
A)         Elizabethan play
B)         Restoration comedy
C)         Heroic Play
D)        Morality Play
Answer – D) Morality Play

10.       The term ‘difference’ has been coined by…..
A)         Sigmund Freud
B)         Jacques Lacan
C)         Jacques Derrida
D)        Deleuze and Guattari
Answer – C) Jecques Derrida (1963)

11.       The ‘Confederation Poets’ is a group of poets in
A)         Australian Literature in English
B)         Pakistani Literature in English
C)         South Asian Literature
D)        Canadian Literature.
Answer – D) Canadian Literature

12.       In ‘Traditional and the Individual Talent’, Eliot presents his
A)        Theory of Impersonality
B)         Theory of Prose
C)         Theory of Narrative
D)        Theory of Personality
Answer – A) Theory of Impersonality

Anil S Awad
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13.       George Lamming is:
A)         An Australian Poet
B)         A Canadian Poet
C)         A Caribbean Author
D)        An African Author.
Answer – C) A Caribbean Author

14.       Donald Farfrae is a character in the following novel
A)         Dubliners
B)         The Mayor of Casterbridge
C)         To the Lighthouse
D)        The Ages of God
Answer – B) They Mayor of Casterbirdge

15.       ‘Treatise on Human Nature’ is written by:
A)         Francis Bacon
B)         John Milton
C)         David Hume
D)        D H Lawrence
Answer – C) David Hume (Published 1738 – 1740)

16.       In Socrates’ time rhetoric was condemned as:
A)        The mother of lies
B)         Incomprehensible style
C)         Cheating
D)        Ornate style
Answer – A) The mother of lies

17.       ‘I galloped, Dick galloped, we galloped all three’ is an example of:
A)         Synecdoche
B)         Transferred epithet
C)         Euphemism
D)        Onomatopoeia
Answer – D) Onomatopoeia
Explanation –
Synecdoche – A part referes to whole or vice versa. (For example – white beard for an old man)
Transferred epithet – Adjective qualifies noun (For example – sleepless nights)
Euphemism – substituting mild words for harsh (For example – Instead of saying – He is dead. – He passed away.)
D) Onomatopoeia – Sound itself suggests the meaning. (For example – galloping of horse – proceeding with great speed to run by jumping)

18.       ‘Full fathom five thy father lies’ is an example of
A)         Assonance
B)         Alliteration
C)         Enjambment
D)        Apostrophe
Answer – B) Alliteration
Explanation –
Assonance – Repetition of the same vowel sounds that starts with different consonants (For example – Men sells the wedding bells. – repetition of the sound – e)
Alliteration – Repetition of the first consonant sounds. (In above example – Full fathom five thy father lies – the consonant /f/ is repeated)
Enjambment – Running over from one poetic line to another without taking pause.
Apostrophe – An absent person, thing or object is addressed in poetry. Commonly begins with exclamation like ‘O’, ‘Oh’ etc. (For example – O Rose, thou art sick – by William Blake)

19.       ‘He shot down all my arguments’ is an example of:
A)         Paradox
B)         Metaphor
C)         Personification
D)        Hyperbole
Answer – B) Metaphor (Structural Metaphor)

20.       ‘Breaking the silence of the seas-’ this line has a metrical variation, because one of the feet is
A)         Anapaestic
B)         Trochaic
C)         Dactyllie
D)        Iambic
Answer – D) Iambic (The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth)
Explanation – To know more about meter and feet, visit my blog –

21.       Simon de Beauvoir is the pioneer of:
A)        Feminism
B)         Structuralism
C)         Poststructuralism
D)        Phenomenology
Answer – A) Feminism (Her famous treatise – The Second Sex – 1949)

22.       George Eliot was the pen name of…..
A)         Mary Issac
B)         Mary Ann Evans
C)         Anne Bronte
D)        Evans Ann
Answer – B) Mary Ann Evans

23.       Which of the following novels is not written by E M Forster?
A)         Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
B)         The Longest Journey (1907)
C)         The Room With a View (1908)
D)        Lord Jim (1900)
Answer – D) Lord Jim  (By Joseph Conrad, published in 1900)

24.       Who wrote ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’?
A)         Charles Lamb
B)         William Hazlitt
C)         James Boswell
D)        Oscar Wilde
Answer – B) James Boswell (1791)

25.       Who among the following is not a British writer?
A)         D H Lawrence
B)         E M Forster
C)         Thomas Hardy
D)        Ernest Hemingway
Answer – D) Earnest Hemingway (American – USA)

26.       ……….. is the only play where Shakespeare follows the classical three unities of time, place and action.
A)        The Tempest
B)         Midsummer Night’s Dream
C)         Romeo and Juliet
D)        King Lear
Answer – A) The Tempest

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27.       The term ‘objective correlative’ is associated with:
A)         Shelley
B)         Arnold
C)         Pope
D)        T S Eliot
Answer – D) T S Eliot (His Essay – Hamlet and His Problems – 1919)

28.       Who is the movement poet among the following?
A)         Shelley
B)         Yeats
C)         Larkin
D)        Hopkins
Answer – C) Larking (Other Movement Poets – Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Donald Davie, D J Enright, Thom Gunn, John Holloway, Elizabeth Jenning and John Wain)

29.       Coleridge draws a distinction between Imagination and ……
A)         Reason
B)         Fancy
C)         Inspiration
D)        Intellect
Answer – B) Fancy (Biographia Literaria – Chapter No. 13)

30.       Robert Browning is famous for his
A)         Ballads
B)         Dramatic monologues
C)         Odes
D)        Elegies
Answer – B) Dramatic Monologues

31.       Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
A)        Emile Bronte
B)         Charlotte Bronte
C)         Anne Bronte
D)        Jane Austen
Answer – A) Emile Bronte (1847)

32.       The meaning of hamartia is:
A)         Chorus
B)         Imitation
C)         Error in judgment
D)        purgation
Answer – C) Error in judgment

33.       The line “Busie old foole, unruly sunne” is written by:
A)        Donne
B)         Marvell
C)         Herbert
D)        Quarles
Answer – A) Donne (Poem – The Sunne Rising)

34.       The author of Christ’s Victory and Triumph is:
A)         Phineas Fletcher
B)         Giles Fletcher
C)         William Browne
D)        Joseph Beaumont
Answer – B) Giles Fletcher

35.       The line “A man can be destroyed but not defeated” appears in:
A)         For Whom the Bell Tolls
B)         The Old Man and The Sea
C)         The Snows of Kilimanjaro
D)        The Sun Also Rises
Answer – B) The Old Man and The Sea (Earnest Hemingway – 1952)

36.       The Poem “Passage to India” is written by:
A)         Robert Frost
B)         Emily Dicinson
C)         E M Foster
D)        Walt Whitman
Answer – D) Walt Whitman (In his collection of poetry – Leaves of Grass)

37.       Samuel Pepys is chiefly known as a:
A)        Diarist
B)         Novelist
C)         Playwright
D)        Poet
Answer – A) Diarist

38.       One of the following novelists is called the poet laureate of market economy. Who is he?
A)         Samuel Richardson
B)         Henry Fielding
C)         Laurence Sterne
D)        Daniel Defoe
Answer – D) Daniel Defoe

39.       Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy was first published in:
A)        1668
B)         1582
C)         1764
D)        1821
Answer – A) 1668

Anil S Awad
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40.       ‘Kubla Khan’ is written by:
A)         William Wordsworth
B)         Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C)         John Keats
D)        P B Shelley
Answer – B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (A dream fragment first published in 1816)

41.       Wagner is a character in:
A)         The Duchess of Malfi
B)         Doctor Faustus
C)         Every Man in His Humour
D)        The Jew of Malta
Answer – B) Doctor Faustus (By Marlow – Wagner is the pupil of Dr. Faustus)

42.       ‘He is the perfect representative of what the age was trying to be, the man who move than anybody else helped society to go the way it wanted to go’ is an observation about Joseph Addison’s life and works by______
A)         Northrop Fry
B)         W K Wimsatt
C)         I A Richards
D)        Bonamy Dabree
Answer – D) Bonamy Dabree

43.       “Thoou still unravish’d bride of quietness
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time”
These famous opening lines are from:
A)         Ode to Autumn
B)         Ode to a Nightingale
C)         Ode on a Grecian Urn
D)        The Prelude
Answer – C) Ode on a Grecian Urn (By John Keats – Jan. 1820)

44.       ‘The Mill on the Floss’ is a tragic story of
A)         Two brothers
B)         A brother and a sister
C)         Two sisters
D)        A husband and a wife
Answer – B) A brother and a sister (Tom and Maggie)

45.       ‘The Mistake of the Night’ is a subtitle of the play….
A)         The Rivals
B)         The Coedy of Errors
C)         She Stoops to Conquer
D)        The Merry Wives of Winsor
Answer – C) She Stoops to Conquer

46.       Heathcliff is a character in……
A)         Emma
B)         Jane Eyre
C)         Vanity Fair
D)        Wuthering Heights
Answer – D) Wuthering Heights (By – Emily Bronte – 1847)

47.       “Thus conscience does make cowards of all” This famous line is from:
A)         Macbeth
B)         Hamlet
C)         The Tempest
D)        Othello
Answer – B) Hamlet (Act – 3, Scene 1)

48.       ‘Cultural Studies’ takes its outlook from….
A)         Saussure
B)         Raymond Williams
C)         Julia Kriesteva
D)        Jameson
Answer – B) Raymond Williams

49.       ‘Intertextuality’ is a term coined by……
A)         Gayatri Spivak
B)         Julia Kriesteva
C)         Jecques Lacan
D)        Roland Barthes
Answer – B) Julia Kriesteva

50.       ‘Practical Criticism’ was written by…..
A)         T S Eliot
B)         Dr. Johnson
C)         S T Coleridge
D)        I A Richards
Answer – D) I A Richards (1929)

Anil S Awad
English Net/SET Consultant
Email – anilawad123@gmail.com
Mobile No. 09922113364 (WhatsApp), 09423403368 (BSNL)

SHORT ANSWER KEY – PAPER II
1)      A) Language
2)      C) Hybridity
3)      A) Plot
4)      A) The nature of western thoughts, language and culture since Plato’s era
5)      A) Literary Competence
6)      B) A well-wrought urn
7)      B) Mr. M. H.
8)      C) Macbeth (ACT One- Scehe I)
9)      D) Morality Play
10)   C) Jecques Derrida (1963)
11)   D) Canadian Literature
12)   A) Theory of Impersonality
13)   C) A Caribbean Author
14)   B) They Mayor of Casterbirdge
15)   C) David Hume (Published 1738 – 1740)
16)  A) The mother of lies
17)   D) Onomatopoeia
18)   B) Alliteration
19)   B) Metaphor (Structural Metaphor)
20)   D) Iambic (The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth)
21)   A) Feminism
22)   B) Mary Ann Evans
23)   D) Lord Jim 
24)   B) James Boswell
25)   D) Earnest Hemingway
26)   A) The Tempest
27)   D) T S Eliot
28)   C) Larking
29)   B) Fancy
30)   B) Dramatic Monologues
31)   A) Emile Bronte
32)   C) Error in judgment
33)   A) Donne
34)   B) Giles Fletcher
35)   B) The Old Man and The Sea
36)   D) Walt Whitman
37)   A) Diarist
38)   D) Daniel Defoe
39)   A) 1668
40)   B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
41)   B) Doctor Faustus
42)   D) Bonamy Dabree
43)   C) Ode on a Grecian Urn
44)   B) A brother and a sister
45)   C) She Stoops to Conquer
46)   D) Wuthering Heights
47)   B) Hamlet
48)   B) Raymond Williams
49)   B) Julia Kriesteva
50)   D) I A Richards

Anil S Awad
English Net/SET Consultant
Email – anilawad123@gmail.com
Mobile No. 09922113364 (WhatsApp), 09423403368 (BSNL)


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