MAHARASHTRA SET
PAPER – II – ENGLISH
28TH JAN 2018
Model Answer Key
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model (predicted) answer key of Maharashtra SET (English) – II paper.
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1) ‘Ripeness is all’ is a line from:
A) King Lear
B) Hamlet
C) Othello
D) Macbeth
Answer – A) King Lear
Explanation – Act V, Scene ii – by Edgar
EDGAR:
What, in ill thoughts again? Men must
endure
Their going hence even as their coming
hither.
Ripeness is all. Come on.
2) ‘The Woman in the Moon’ is a play
written by one of the following playwrights:
A) George Peele
B) Thomas Lodge
C) Thomas Nashe
D) John Lyly
Answer - D) John Lyly (Originally
published: 1597)
3. The numbers of pilgrims going to
Canterbury together in Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is:
A) 22
B) 27
C) 29
D) 31
Answer – C) 29
(It is mention by Chaucer himself in The Prologue
to the Canterbury Tales in line No. 24 – ‘Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,’)
4. Which of the following is a play by
Shakespeare?
A) Edward II
B) Richard II
C) Henry II
D) Henry III
Answer – B) Richard II
(Originally published: 1597)
History Plays by Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
5. If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.
These lines are taken from
A) The Grasshooper
B) The Scrutinie
C) The Althea, from Prison
D) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Answer -C) The Althea, from
Prison (by Richard Lovelace)
The lines:
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage.
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
6. I will not think of thee but as
men do
Of debts and sins; and then I’ll curse
thee too.
These lines are taken from:
A) Love Turned to Hatred
B) Sonnet I
C) A Doubt of Martyrdom
D) The Constant Lover
Answer - A) Love Turned to
Hatred
7. ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesie’ is
written by
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Joseph Addison
C) John Dryden
D) Oliver Goldsmith
Answer - C) John Dryden
8) The pamphlet ‘A Short View of
Immorality and Profaneness of English Stage’ is penned by:
A) John Vanbrugh
B) Thomas D’urfey
C) Jeremy Collier
D) William Prynne
Answer - C) Jeremy Collier
9) The central character in ‘The Way of
the World’ is :
A) Mirabell
B) Foible
C) Waitwell
D) Lady Wishfort
Answer - A) Mirabell
10) Who was the first ever Poet
Laureate?
A) Ben Jonson
B) Alexander Pope
C) John Dryden
D) Wordsworth
Answer - A) Ben Jonson
(the first official holder of the
position was John Dryden, appointed in 1668 by Charles II.)
11) The term ‘metaphysical poets’ was
coined by:
A) Andrew Marvell
B) John Donne
C) Samuel Johnson
D) Abraham Cowley
Answer - C) Samuel Johnson
From - The Lives of the
Poets
About the beginning of
the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the
metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not
improper to give some account.
12) The reign of Queen Elizabeth was
spread over the period of:
A) 1554-1616
B) 1588-1603
C) 1558-1603
D) 1564-1616
Answer - C) 1558-1603
13) Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘The Traveller’
was published in:
A) 1749
B) 1755
C) 1770
D) 1764
Answer - D) 1764
14) Richard Glover’s ‘Admiral Hosier’s
Ghost’ is:
A) a Sonnet
B) an Epic
C) a Poetic Drama
D) a Ballad
Answer - D) a Ballad
15) ‘Currer Bell’ was the penname
adopted by the British woman novelist:
A) Anne Bronte
B) Charlotte Bronte
C) Maria Edgeworth
D) Jane Austen
Answer - B) Charlotte Bronte
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16) Which of Dickens’ novels opens with
the words, ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…’
A) Oliver Twist
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) Hard Times
D) Great Expectations
Answer – B) A Tale of Two
Cities
17) In which of the following poems does
the line, ‘The curfew tolls the knell of the parting day’ occur?
A) Lycidas
B) Adonais
C) An Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard
D) In Memoriam
Answer - C) An Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard
18) Who has propounded the theory of the
‘association of ideas’?
A) J S Mill
B) Edmund Burke
C) Charles Darwin
D) John Locke
Answer - D) John Locke
19) The chief narrator in ‘Wuthering
Heights’ is:
A) Nelly Dean
B) Lockwood
C) Henchard
D) Catherine
Answer - A) Nelly Dean
20) Hardy added a subtitle to his novel ‘Tess
of the DÚrbervilles’ as his personal statement. What is it?
A) A Maid’s Tragedy
B) A Plaything of Fate
C) A Pure Woman
D) A Tragedy of the Innocent
Answer - C) A Pure Woman
21) Who wrote the famous poem ‘Adlestrop’?
A) Edward Thomas
B) Dylan Thomas
C) Thomas Hardy
D) T S Eliot
Answer - A) Edward Thomas
22) Which Greek God appears in the guise
of a swan in Yeats’s poem, “Leda and the Swan”?
A) Apollo
B) Dionysius
C) Poseidon
D) Zeus
Answer - D) Zeus
23) The novel ‘The House Made of Dawn’
is written by:
A) Joseph Heller
B) Louise Erdrich
C) Susan Sontag
D) N Scott Momaday
Answer - D) N Scott Momaday
24) In which year Earnest Hemingway was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1954
B) 1955
C) 1956
D) 1960
Answer - A) 1954
25) “Geoffrey Crayson, Gent” is the
pseudonym of the American writer:
A) Washington Irving
B) Mark Twain
C) James Fenimore Cooper
D) William Cullen Bryant
Answer - A) Washington Irving
26) Who wrote the book “The Souls of
Black Folk”?
A) Ralph Ellison
B) W E B Dubois
C) Richard Wright
D) James Baldwin
Answer - B) W E B Dubois
27) The novel ‘Bone People’ deals with
the natives of:
A) Australia
B) New Zealand
C) Canada
D) England
Answer - B) New Zealand
28) Which novel inspired Jean Rhys to
write ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’?
A) Jane Eyre
B) Middlemarch
C) Wuthering Heights
D) Pamela
Answer - A) Jane Eyre
29) Who has written the poem “The Negro
Speaks of Rivers”?
A) Carl Sandburg
B) Langston Hughes
C) Claude McKay
D) James Weldon Johnson
Answer - B) Langston Hughes
30) Who is the author of the novel, ‘Gertrude
and Claudius’?
A) Norman Mailer
B) D H Lawrence
C) Philip Roth
D) John Updike
Answer - D) John Updike
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31) Who defined poetry as ‘the criticism
of life’?
A) John Dryden
B) I A Richards
C) F R Leavis
D) Mathew Arnold
Answer - D) Mathew Arnold
32) Charles Dicken’s novel ‘David
Copperfield’ is ……… in character
A) Autobiographical
B) Picaresque
C) Pastoral
D) Historical
Answer - A) Autobiographical
33) For Aristotle, tragedy is an
imitation of action which is serious, complete in itself and having a certain…
A) attitude
B) magnitude
C) length
D) intention
Answer - B) magnitude
34) Who described nations nation as an ‘imagined
community’?
A) Stuart Hall
B) Raymond Williams
C) Perry Anderson
D) Benedict Anderson
Answer - D) Benedict Anderson
35) Name the modern Marxist philosopher
who coined the term “Ideological State Apparatus”?
A) Louis Althusser
B) Terry Eagleton
C) Frederic Jameson
D) Edward Said
Answer - A) Louis Althusser
36) Who described Shelley as ‘a
beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain’?
A) T S Eliot
B) F R Leavis
C) Mathew Arnold
D) W H Auden
Answer - C) Mathew Arnold
37) Which of the following pairs
correct?
LIST A LIST
B
I) Parable A)
a word or object that stands for another
II) Persona B) a narrator or a
storyteller of a literary work created by the author
III) Personification C) a brief
narrative with a moral or religious lesson
IV) Symbol D) a device where ideas or objects
are given human characteristics
CODE I
II III
IV
A) C
B D
A
B) B
A C
D
C) A
D B
C
D) D
C A
B
Answer - A) C B D A
38) The term ‘diaspora’ literary means:
A) Migration
B) Immigration
C) Scattering
D) Journey
Answer - C) Scattering
39) Edward E Said’s ‘Culture and
Imperialism’ deals with one of the following central themes:
A) The image of the Oriental in
literature
B) The theory of colonialism
C) The development of novel as a vehicle of
imperialism
D) The colonizer’s civilizing mission
Answer - A) The image of the
Oriental in literature
40) Who is the author of ‘Age of
Uncertainty’?
A) John Kenneth Galbraith
B) Amartya Sen
C) Nirad C Chaudhury
D) W H Auden
Answer - A) John Kenneth
Galbraith
41) Who mentions the referential and
emotive use of language?
A) F R Levavis
B) R P Warren
C) J C Ransom
D) I A Richards
Answer - D) I A Richards
42) An act of speaking one’s thoughts
aloud by a character in a play is known as:
A) Soliloquy
B) Dramatic Monologue
C) Elegy
D) Lyric
Answer - A) Soliloquy
43) ‘Pied Beauty’ by Hopkins is a:
A) Petrarchan Sonnet
B) Miltonic Sonnet
C) Spenserian Sonnet
D) Curtal Sonnet
Answer – D) Curtal Sonnet
44) Who coined the term ‘comic epic in
prose’?
A) Alexander Pope
B) Mathew Arnold
C) Henry James
D) Henry Fielding
Answer - D) Henry Fielding
45) Invocation is an appeal for:
A) Poetic power of Venus
B) A cordial invitation to the reader
C) Demonic duty of Flora
D) Divine inspiration to the Muse
Answer - D) Divine inspiration
to the Muse
46) The strophe, the anti-strophe and
the epode constitute the three parts of:
A) The Lesbian Ode
B) The Horatian Ode
C) The Homeric Ode
D) The Pindaric Ode
Answer - D) The Pindaric Ode
47) An artistic attempt to bridge
together reality and imagination is called:
A) Expressionism
B) Impressionism
C) Surrealism
D) Realism
Answer - C) Surrealism
48) A couplet covers a ….. thought
written in two lines with rhyming ends
A) Complete
B) Partial
C) Rare
D) Popular
Answer - A) Complete
49) The expression ‘cold fire’ is an
example of:
A) Metaphor
B) Metonymy
C) Hyperbole
D) Oxymoron
Answer - D) Oxymoron
50) Caesura is:
A) A mixture of sounds
B) An image
C) A form of pastoral poem
D) A pause in a line of poetry
Answer - D) A pause in a line
of poetry
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SHORT ANSWER KEY
1. A) King Lear
2. D) John Lyly (Originally published: 1597)
3. C) 29
4. B) Richard II (Originally published: 1597)
5. C) The Althea, from Prison (by Richard Lovelace)
6. A) Love Turned to Hatred
7. C) John Dryden
8. C) Jeremy Collier
9. A) Mirabell
10. A) Ben Jonson
11. C) Samuel Johnson
12. C) 15581603
13. D) 1764
14. D) a Ballad
15. B) Charlotte Bronte
16. B) A Tale of Two Cities
17. C) An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
18. D) John Locke
19. A) Nelly Dean
20. C) A Pure Woman
21. A) Edward Thomas
22. D) Zeus
23. D) N Scott Momaday
24. A) 1954
25. A) Washington Irving
26. B) W E B Dubois
27. B) New Zealand
28. A) Jane Eyre
29. B) Langston Hughes
30. D) John Updike
31. D) Mathew Arnold
32. A) Autobiographical
33. B) magnitude
34. D) Benedict Anderson
35. A) Louis Althusser
36. C) Mathew Arnold
37. A) C B D A
38. C) Scattering
39. A) The image of the Oriental in literature
40. A) John Kenneth Galbraith
41. D) I A Richards
42. A) Soliloquy
43. D) Curtal Sonnet
44. D) Henry Fielding
45. D) Divine inspiration to the Muse
46. D) The Pindaric Ode
47. C) Surrealism
48. A) Complete
49. D) Oxymoron
50. D) A pause in a line of poetry
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