Past Question paper of SET Exam

Can any one here provide me the last year question paper of Maharashtra SET – English paper III Exam??

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Here is the last year question paper of Maharashtra SET – English paper III Exam

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate alternatives to answer the questions given below it :

Only what word, Wisest my heart breeds dark heaven’s bafling ban Bars or hell’s spell thwarts. This to hoard unheard, Heard unheeded, leaves me a lonely began.

1. The expression ‘what word wisest’
and the words at the end of the lines
‘word’, ‘ban’, ‘unheard’ and ‘began’
are examples respectively of :
(A) rhyme and alliteration
(B) alliteration and rhyme
(C) assonance and rhyme
(D) rhyme and personification
2. In ‘what word wisest’, we have an
example of :
(A) transferred epithet
(B) distortion of form
(C) inversion
(D) repetition
3. The expression ‘a lonely began’
is :
(A) only semantically odd
(B) only syntactically odd
(C) syntactically normal
(D) a poetic deviation
4. Which sounds are repeated in the
poem ?
(A) /w/, /b/, /l/, /d/ and /h/
(B) /w/, /n/, /r/ and /l/
(C) /t/, /g/, /f/ and /st/
(D) /l/, /k/, /g/ and /z/
5. The overall feeling that one gets
from the lines is that of :
(A) anger
(B) frustration
(C) joy
(D) quietude
6. Who was Sycorax ?
(A) The mother of Caliban
(B) A witch in Macbeth
(C) The maid in The Winter’s
Tale
(D) The wife of Cassius
7. Troylus and Criseyde was half
translated/half adapted from :
(A) Il Filostrato
(B) Decameron
(C) Divina Commedia
(D) La Vita Nuova
8. There is no fool in the following play
of Shakespeare :
(A) Macbeth
(B) Othello
(C) King Lear
(D) Antony and Cleopatra
9. Who among the following does not
form a part of the University
Wits ?
(A) John Lyly
(B) Thomas Kyd
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) David Green
10. Identify the poet who wrote the
lines ‘Sweet Thames, run softly
till I end my song’ :
(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) Philip Sidney
(C) Samuel Daniel
(D) George Chapman
11. Ralph Roister Doister is considered
to be the first regular English :
(A) Comedy
(B) Tragedy
(C) Novel
(D) Epic
12. Milton Samson is a/an :
(A) Romantic hero
(B) Tragic hero
(C) Comic hero
(D) Anti-hero
13. Francis Bacon’s style can be
described as :
(A) Aphoristic
(B) Discursive
(C) Picturesque
(D) Bare
14. Satan is a grand figure in Milton’s
Paradise Lost :
(A) Book I
(B) Books III and IV
(C) Book IX
(D) Books X, XI and XII
15. Comedy of Humours was best
developed in :
(A) The plays of Shakespeare
(B) The plays of Sheridan
(C) The plays of Ben Jonson
(D) The plays of Molière
16. Avoiding extravagance and
emotionalism was characteristic of
the age of :
(A) Chaucer
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Milton
(D) Dryden
17. In the Essay on Criticism, Alexander
Pope deals with .....................
(A) The merits and limitations of
the 18th Century poetry
(B) The merits and limitations of
18th Century criticism
(C) The merits and limitations of
18th Century drama
(D) The merits and limitations of
18th century prose
18. The play The Good Natured Man
is ..........................
(A) A comedy of humours
(B) A comedy of manners
(C) A sentimental comedy
(D) An anti-sentimental comedy
19. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s does
not deal with .................
(A) Man’s struggle with sin
(B) Life as a journey
(C) The reality of his time
(D) Developments in England
20. Which chronological order of
Wycherley’s plays is correct ?
(A) Love in a Wood—The
Gentleman Dancing Master—
The Country Wife—The Plain
Dealer
(B) Love in a Wood—The Country
Wife—The Plain Dealer—The
Gentleman Dancing Master
(C) Love in a Wood—The Plain
Dealer—The Country Wife—The
Gentleman Dancing
Master
(D) The Plain Dealer—Love in a
Wood—The Country Wife—The
Gentleman Dancing Master
21. Which romantic poet skilfully blends
medieval life with commonplace
everyday life of his days ?
(A) William Blake
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) John Keats
(D) S.T. Coleridge
22. The genius of Charles Lamb as
an essayist lies in his power
of .........................
(A) Satirizing the society
(B) Describing the beauty of nature
(C) Philosophising the ideas
(D) Visualizing memories
23. In which poem of Keats, Milton’s
influence is quite visible ?
(A) Hyperion
(B) Endymion
(C) Lamia
(D) Isabella
24. Identify the poet who was concerned
with ‘‘Spots of Time’’ :
(A) Coleridge
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Robert Southey
25. Who named the school ‘metaphysical
poets’ to John Donne’s contemporary
poets ?
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) John Dryden
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Mathew Arnold
26. Which novel of Jane Austen
was published after her
death ?
(A) Mansfield Park
(B) Persuasion
(C) Lady Susan
(D) Emma
27. Hardy’s first published novel
is ............
(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Desperate Remedies
(D) The Trumpet Major
28. Richardson’s works appeared in the
following order :
(A) Pamela—Clarissa—Sir Charles
Grandison
(B) Pamela—Sir Charles Grandison
—Clarissa
(C) Clarissa—Sir Charles Grandison
—Pamela
(D) Clarissa—Pamela—Sir Charles
Grandison
29. Which of the following characters
does not appear in Tristram
Shandy ?
(A) Corporal Brim
(B) Doctor Slop
(C) Uncle Toby
(D) Narcissa
30. The Jacobite rising of 1745 is
dealt with by Walter Scott
in ..............
(A) Antiquary
(B) Guy Mannering
(C) Waverley
(D) Rob Roy
31. Which of the following literary text
was not written by James
Joyce ?
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man
(B) Ulysses
(C) Finnegans Wake
(D) The Island
32. From among the following modern
writers, identify the writer who
used myths extensively in his
writing :
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) W.B. Yeats
(C) Ezra Pound
(D) W.H. Auden
33. Which is the non-fictional work of
Virginia Woolf ?
(A) To The Lighthouse
(B) Mrs. Dalloway
(C) Modern Fiction
(D) Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
34. J.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea has
................. act(s).
(A) one
(B) two
(C) three
(D) five
35. Identify D.H. Lawrence’s novel
which is not set in a Colliery
background :
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) The Rainbow
(C) Women in Love
(D) The Plummed Serpent
36. The Birthday Party does not deal
with :
(A) Birth Trauma
(B) Oedipus Complex
(C) Betrayal and Punishment
(D) Religious Conflict
37. Animal imagery pervades the poems
of :
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Philip Larkin
(D) Seamus Heaney
38. Waiting for Godot includes :
(A) two boys
(B) one boy
(C) two boys out of whom one
denies the existence of the
other
(D) one boy according to the list of
characters but two boys
according to Estragon and one
boy according to Vladimir
39. In Lucky Jim Kingsley Arms
narrates :
(A) The prosperity of Jim
(B) The successful life of Jim
(C) The advantages of the life at
universities
(D) The sardonic picture of life in
a university
40. John Osborne in Deja Vu
revisits the central characters
in :
(A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Inadmissible Evidence
(C) A Subject of Scandal and
Concern
(D) A Patriot for Me
41. Aristotle defines in Poetics :
(A) Short story
(B) Tragedy
(C) Delight
(D) Novel
42. New Aestheticism was a rebellion
against ...................
(A) Conservatism of the Victorians
(B) Intuitionism
(C) Romanticism
(D) Humanism
43. Identify from the following a novel
that deals with the Jazz Age :
(A) A Farewell to Arms
(B) The Sound and the Fury
(C) The Great Gatsby
(D) Mainstreet
44. ‘Humanity seems to have changed
around 1890’ was an observation
of ......................
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) James Joyce
45. The ‘touchstone method’ meant
comparing a work of art with
acknowledged great works of art
and the concept was developed
by :
(A) Keats
(B) Mathew Arnold
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) T.S. Eliot
46. Deconstruction consists in ..................
(A) Revealing and subverting the
texts
(B) Historical study of texts
(C) Social study of texts
(D) Linguistic study of texts
47. Cultural criticism is developed
by :
(A) Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Fredric Jameson
(D) Peter Demetz
48. The distinction between the signifier
and the signifee, between associative
and syntagmatic relations was made
by :
(A) Noam Chosky
(B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Bloomfield
(D) Firth
49. The main advocate of deconstruction
is :
(A) Martin Heidegaar
(B) Paul de Man
(C) Gadamer
(D) Jacques Derrida
50. Base—superstructure relationship,
unity of opposites, negation of
negation are the important
principles of :
(A) Formalism
(B) Reception theory
(C) Marxist literary criticism
(D) Sociological criticism
51. The Direct method of teaching a
language insists on :
(A) Self-learning
(B) The use of the target language
in the classroom
(C) Translation as an important
activity
(D) The use of audio-visual aids in
the classroom
52. Guided composition involves ..............
(A) Dictating a piece of
composition
(B) Supplying a model text
(C) Providing points
(D) Making available questions
previously asked
53. Which of the following does not have
any influence on the learning of
English in India ?
(A) The learner’s attitude
(B) The attitude of the second
language community
(C) The teacher’s attitude
(D) The attitude of the first
language community
54. The process of language acquisition
begins ...................
(A) At the age of 6 months
(B) During adolescence
(C) When a child joins a school
(D) During infancy
55. Interrelated languages are
metaphorically said to belong to the
same ...................... of languages.
(A) Branch
(B) Family
(C) Community
(D) Group
56. In Camus’ novel The Outsider (or
The Stranger) :
(A) The sun is oppressive
(B) The sun is benign
(C) The sun provides the much
needed warmth
(D) Women do sun-bathing
57. Baudelaire’s poem ‘Flowers of Evil’
influenced :
(A) Symbolist poetry
(B) Expressionist poetry
(C) War poetry
(D) Movement poetry
58. Which of the following statements
about Sophocles’ Antigone is not
true ?
(A) Antigone is a feminist
(B) Antigone does not love
Haemon
(C) The play dramatizes a conflict
between human law and Divine
law
(D) Ismene is a foil to Antigone
59. Which one from the following is a
17th century French play
that is open to a feminist
interpretation ?
(A) Le Cid (The Cid)
(B) Phèdre (Phaedre)
(C) L’Avarre (The Miser)
(D) Tartuffe
60. The man who tries to blackmail
Nora in Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’
is .......................
(A) Dr. Rank
(B) Bernick
(C) Krogsted
(D) Kroll
61. Cacoon is a novel by :
(A) Pannalal Patel
(B) Bhalchandra Nemade
(C) Kamaleshwar
(D) Nirmal Verma
62. ‘I am an Indian poet writing
in English.’ Who made this
statement ?
(A) Arun Kolatkar
(B) Kamala Das
(C) Nissim Ezekiel
(D) Keki Daruwallah
63. The subplot in ‘Anna Karenina’ is
the story of :
(A) Levin and Kitty
(B) Sliva and Dolly
(C) Vorenue and Koznishev
(D) Anna and Vronski
64. Which Indian dramatist has formed
a theatre group ?
(A) Mahesh Dattani
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) Badal Sircar
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
65. Which Indian author denies that
she is a feminist ?
(A) Gauri Deshpande
(B) Kamala Markandeya
(C) Kamala Das
(D) Shashi Deshpande
66. Who has described India as a
‘Continent of Circe’ ?
(A) Nirad Chaudhari
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Khushwant Singh
(D) Girish Karnad
67. Which literary genre is the strongest
in non-British English Literature ?
(A) Fiction
(B) Poetry
(C) Drama
(D) Non-fictional prose
68. Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s River Between
deals with :
(A) The cultural conflict
between the natives and the
outsiders
(B) The terrible conflict in Kenya
(C) The adverse impact of
industrialization
(D) Socio-cultural unrest in Kenya
due to colonizers
69. Identify the novel which has more
than two narrators :
(A) The Turn of the Screw
(B) Ambassadors
(C) The Portrait of a Lady
(D) Daisy Miller
70. The great American autobiography
of the colonial period was written
by :
(A) Cotton Mather
(B) Benjamin Franklin
(C) Thomas Jefferson
(D) Washington Irving
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71. Faucault’s ‘panoptical’ state of affairs
shows :
(A) A world in which we are under
constant surveillance and we
constantly monitor ourselves for
signs of abnormality
(B) A world that is at war with
itself
(C) A world divided by political,
social and cultural diversities
(D) A world suffering from plague
and leprosy
72. Primacy of theory, decentering the
subject, reading of the text, discourse
in the text are four important
principles of ..................
(A) Structuralism
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Historicism
(D) Reader-response theory
73. T.S. Eliot developed the notion
of :
(A) Imagination
(B) Creativity
(C) Tradition
(D) Genius
74. The concept of intertextuality was
developed well by :
(A) Lacan
(B) Kristeva
(C) Derrida
(D) Wayne Booth
75. Levi-Strauss, Jean Piaget and
Saussure are regarded as pioneers
of :
(A) Modern criticism
(B) Reception theory
(C) Structuralism
(D) Stylistics