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22nd August 2014, 10:08 AM
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Question Papers for SET English
Please give me question paper for Pune university State Eligibility Test (SET) english examination soon ?
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22nd August 2014, 01:24 PM
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Re: Question Papers for SET English
Here I am giving you question paper for Pune university State Eligibility Test (SET) english examination............ 1. Which class does not provide any character in Chaucer’s “Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales ? (A) The Nobility (B) The Trading Class (C) The Clergy (D) The Artisan Class 2. The lyric “Come live with me and be my love” was written by : (A) William Shakespeare (B) Ben Jonson (C) Christopher Marlowe (D) Samuel Daniel 3. Which of the following works is a collection of sonnets ? (A) Epithalamion (B) Amoretti (C) The Shepherd’s Calendar (D) Colin Clout’s Come home again 4. “Is this the dagger which I see before me”, these words are said by : (A) Hamlet (B) Macbeth (C) Richard II (D) Henry IV 5. Identify the play which is open to post-colonial reading : (A) Macbeth (B) Henry IV Part I (C) The Tempest (D) The Winter’s Tale 6. Identify the author of “I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I did, till we lov’d” : (A) George Wither (B) Andrew Marvell (C) John Donne (D) Robert Greene 7. Identify the classical tragedy from the following : (A) Samson Agonistes (B) Lycidas (C) Il Penseroso (D) Comus 8. Which of the following is the earliest practitioner of the Comedy of Manners ? (A) Congreve (B) Wycherley (C) Etherege (D) Farquhar 9. Identify the Comedy of Humours from the following : (A) The Alchemist (B) The Man of Mode (C) The Old Bachelor (D) The Gentleman Dancing Master 10. In which novel of Fielding the hero and the heroine are based on Fielding and his first wife ? (A) Tom Jones (B) Joseph Andrews (C) Amelia (D) Jonathan Wild the Great 11. The first major English Dictionary was compiled by : (A) Dr. Johnson (B) Ben Jonson (C) Addison (D) Richard Steele 12. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard mourns the death of : (A) James Thomson (B) Soldiers (C) The Common Man (D) Cowper 16. Queen Mab was written by : (A) P. B. Shelley (B) J. Keats (C) R. Southey (D) G. G. Byron 17. In Jane Austen’s novel Emma, Emma falls in love with : (A) Knightley (B) John Fairfax (C) Colonel Fitzwilliams (D) Thomas Bertram 18. The poem The Lady of the Lake is written by : (A) Tennyson (B) Wordsworth (C) Scott (D) Byron 13. Which work of Browning deals with the murder of a young wife, Pompilia ? (A) Fra Lippo Lippi (B) Andrea del Sarto (C) Rabbi Ben Ezra (D) The Ring and the Book 14. Who amongst the following wrote Gothic Novels ? (A) Laurence Sterne (B) Tobias Smollett (C) Daniel Defoe (D) Ann Radcliffe 15. Who has written the following lines “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven” ? (A) P. B. Shelley (B) J. Keats (C) G. G. Byron (D) W. Wordsworth 19. Confessions of an Opium Eater is written by : (A) De Quincey (B) Coleridge (C) Hazlitt (D) Leigh Hunt 20. The name of the mad woman in Jane Eyre is : (A) Mrs. Reed (B) Adele (C) Bertha Mason (D) Mrs. Fairfax 21. Which of the following novels of Charles Dickens has auto biographical elements ? (A) David Copperfield (B) Nicholas Nickleby (C) Hard Times (D) Bleak House 22. Which character in Middlemarch is an idealist ? (A) Dr. Lydgate (B) Mr. Farebrother (C) Fred Vincy (D) Caleb Garth 23. Thomas Hardy’s Dynasts is a : (A) A Collection of Lyrics (B) A Play (C) A Novel (D) An Epic Poem 24. Idea of a University is written by : (A) Cardinal Newman (B) Carlyle (C) Ruskin (D) Arnold 25. What is Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession about ? (A) Child Labour (B) Prostitution (C) Contemporary Politics (D) Science Fantasy 26. Who is Galsworthy’s Man of Property ? (A) Bosinney (B) Jolyon (C) Larry (D) Soames 27. T. S. Eliot’s play The Family Reunion takes as its model a Greek play entitled : (A) Agamemnon (B) Antigone (C) Hippolytus (D) Eumenides 28. Which Irish author has frequently included the mythical figure of Cuchulain in his works ? (A) J. M. Synge (B) W. B. Yeats (C) Sean O’ Casey (D) James Joyce 29. In which novel did Conrad first introduce his technique of ‘oblique narrative’ ? (A) The Nigger of Narcissus (B) Lord Jim (C) Heart of Darkness (D) Kangaroo 30. The notion of “collective unconscious” was developed by : (A) Carl Jung (B) Freud (C) Lacan (D) Adler 31. The Craft of Fiction is written by : (A) Cleanth Brooks (B) Henry James (C) Percy Lubbock (D) E. M. Forster 32. “Snowball” is a character in : (A) Animal Farm (B) Gulliver’s Travels (C) The Pilgrim’s Progress (D) Robinson Crusoe 33. Joey is a character in Harold Pinter’s : (A) The Caretaker (B) The Homecoming (C) The Room (D) The Dumb Waiter 34. Which landscape is described in Ted Hughes’ poetry ? (A) Lancashire (B) Yorkshire (C) Surrey (D) Derbyshire 35. The novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is written by : (A) Allan Sillitoe (B) John Braine (C) Kingsley Amis (D) John Wain 36. The novels of Iris Murdoch deal with : (A) Existentialism (B) Marxism (C) Theology (D) Spiritualism 37. The sub-title of Moby Dick is : (A) The Angel Whale (B) The Whale Bone (C) The Whale Under the Sea (D) The White Whale 38. The poem Passage to India is written by : (A) Walt Whitman (B) Carl Sandburg (C) Robert Frost (D) R. W. Emerson 39. Wedding Album is a play written by : (A) Girish Karnad (B) Manjula Padmanabhan (C) Mahesh Dattani (D) Makarand Sathe 40. The poem The Sunshine Cat is written by : (A) Mamta Kalia (B) Gauri Deshpande (C) Meena Alexander (D) Kamala Das 41. Which of the following Caribbean writers has got the Nobel Prize ? (A) Kenneth Ramchand (B) Derek Walcott (C) Shiva Naipaul (D) Wilson Harris 42. “Can the Subaltern Speak” is a treatise written by : (A) Gayatri Spivak (B) Homi Bhabha (C) Aijaz Ahmed (D) Edward Said 43. ‘New Historicism’ was propounded by : (A) Greenblatt (B) Bakhtin (C) Wimsatt (D) Eagleton 44. Preface to Shakespeare is : (A) Introduction to the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays (B) An introduction to Shakespeare’s tragedies (C) Dr. Samuel Johnson’s essay on Shakespeare (D) A commentary on Ben Jonson’s views on Shakespeare 45. “Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity And with the heart of May Doth every beast keep holiday.” These lines exemplify : (A) Pathetic Fallacy (B) Transferred Epithet (C) Simile (D) Synecdoche 46. “Cannon to right of them Cannon to left of them Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered.” The dominant metre in these lines is : (A) Dactyl (B) Iamb (C) Amphibrach (D) Trochee 47. An image is : (A) a direct comparison (B) a vague metaphor (C) a mental picture of an object (D) a subtle repetition 48. “Womanism” is a term introduced by : (A) Marge Piercy (B) Toni Morrison (C) Alice Walker (D) Audre Lorde 49. The central concept of ‘existentialism’ is : (A) rejection of pessimism (B) a realisation of nothingness (C) acceptance of predeterminism (D) protest against fatalism 50. T. S. Eliot showed the manuscript of The Wasteland to : (A) Ezra Pound (B) R. W. Emerson (C) Ted Hughes (D) James Frazer |