MP SET 2018 English
MP SET 2018 English
MP SET 2018 English
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Answer Key: C
King Lear
A
Othello
B
Macbeth
C
Hamlet
D
Answer Key: C
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Reading
A
Writing
B
Consultation
C
Conference
D
Answer Key: D
Monorhyme
A
Limerick
B
Terza Rima
C
Enclosed Rhyme
D
Answer Key: C
Shakespeare : Sonnet 29
D
Answer Key: B
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Lodge's “Reply”
B
Answer Key: D
Epistolary novel
A
Psychological novel
B
Realistic novel
C
Bildungsroman novel
D
Answer Key: A
The Caretaker
A
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Answer Key: D
1785
A
1798
B
1789
C
1770
D
Answer Key: B
George Eliot
B
Charlotte Bronte
C
Mary Shelley
D
Answer Key: D
Thomas Parnell
A
Alexander Pope
B
Edward Young
C
Robert Blair
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D
Answer Key: B
Q12 : D. H. Lawrence’s “Cocksure Women and Mensure Men”, the anti-feminist work, is an example of
___________ essay.
an informative
A
a descriptive
B
an argumentative
C
a narrative
D
Answer Key: C
Q13 : Which poem of Sylvia Plath describes the condition of a pregnant woman?
Mirror
A
Balloons
B
Insomaniac
C
Metaphors
D
Answer Key: D
Q14 : Whose poems heralded the ‘Celtic Revival’ in the 18th Century?
W.B. Yeats
A
Tennyson
B
Eric Linklater
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C
James Macpherson
D
Answer Key: D
Edward Said
A
Homi Bhaba
B
Gayatri Spivak
C
Bill Ashcroft
D
Answer Key: B
Animadversions
A
L’Allegro
B
Il Penerose
C
Samson Agonistes
D
Answer Key: D
Q17 : Who is the author of the narrative poems, ’A lover’s Complaint, ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘The Rape
of Lucrece’?
Ben Johnson
A
Aphra Behn
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B
Marlowe
C
Shakespeare
D
Answer Key: D
Q18 : Which of the following play was written by Wole Soyinka to commemorate the Independence of
Nigeria?
The Road
B
Kongi’s Marvest
C
Answer Key: A
Annotation
A
Parse
B
Transposition
C
Translation
D
Answer Key: D
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A
The Feminine Mystique
B
Answer Key: B
Q21 : Who asserted, “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thoughts” while
examining the politics of language?
George Orwell
A
Wittgenstein
B
Faulkner
C
Cleanth Brooks
D
Answer Key: A
Bengali culture
A
East-West encounter
C
Wages of freedom
D
Answer Key: C
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Q23 :
August strindberg
A
Henrik Ibsen
B
Emile Zola
C
Edward Albee
D
Answer Key: B
Q24 : Which one of the following was not involved in the production of the influential postmodern text,
Learning from Las Vegas?
Harold Bloom
A
Robert Venturi
B
Steven Izenour
C
Answer Key: A
Q25 : Who contributed to Indian poetry in English with works like To India My Native Land and The
Fakhir of Janghira?
Henry Derozio
B
Sarojini Naidu
C
Manmohan Ghose
D
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Answer Key: B
Q26 : According to __________ , ‘one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simon de Beauvoir
A
Elaine Showalter
B
Ellen Moer
C
Virginia Woolf
D
Answer Key: A
Q27 : Gramsci’s concept that a social class achieves a predominant influence and power not by direct and
overt means but by succeeding in making its ideological views so pervasive that the subordinate
classes unwittingly accept and participate in their own oppression, is called:
Interpellates
A
Hegemony
B
Hermeneutics
C
Nonsynchronus
D
Answer Key: B
T.S. Eliot
A
Goethe
B
Byron
C
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Keats
D
Answer Key: D
Q29 : Who created Lady Berfram, Isabella Thorpe and Miss Jennings as fictional characters?
Mrs.Radcliffe
A
Jane Austen
B
Charlotte Bronte
C
George Eliot
D
Answer Key: B
Q30 : Which Indian author’s first book is a collection of poems published in 1980 as Mappings?
Arundhati Roy
A
Kamla Das
B
Vikram Seth
C
Amitav Ghosh
D
Answer Key: C
Q31 : Which great German classicist and Nobel Laureate wrote A Theory of Rome?
Max Muellar
A
Goethe
B
Theodor Mommsen
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Nietzsche
D
Answer Key: C
Q32 : Leopold Senghor, Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon are associated with
Harlem Renaissance
A
Back to Africa
B
Negritude
C
Surrealism
D
Answer Key: C
Q33 : The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook are the famous works of___________.
William Golding
A
Doris Lessing
B
C. S. Lewis
C
Ted Hughes
D
Answer Key: B
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A
Hemingway
B
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John Updike
C
John Steinbeck
D
Answer Key: D
Q35 : Who among the following poets said about Emerson that he had a “Greek head on right Yankee
Shoulders”?
Thoreau
A
Whitman
B
Robert Frost
C
Lowell
D
Answer Key: D
Q36 : Swifts Tale of a Tub and The Battle of Books were published in_____.
1704
A
1714
B
1724
C
1734
D
Answer Key: A
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The way the users of a language register the nuances of that Language
B
Answer Key: C
Hamlet’s Predicament
A
Milton's Poetry
C
Keatsian Poetry
D
Answer Key: B
Calcutta Chromosome
A
Family Matters
D
Answer Key: A
Q40 : Who wrote "The World, The Text and The Critic"?
Derrida
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Edward Said
B
Roland Barthes
C
Homi Bhabha
D
Answer Key: B
Q41 : Whose book of poetry on Kashmir in English is tittled A Country Without a Post Office?
Jayanta Mahapatra
A
Vikram Seth
B
Dom Moraes
D
Answer Key: C
Utpal Datt
A
Badal Sircar
B
Habib Tanvir
C
Vijay Tendulkar
D
Answer Key: C
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Artand
A
Beckett
B
Ionesco
C
Esslin
D
Answer Key: D
P. Shivakami
A
Laxmibai Tilak
B
Urmila Pawar
C
Anita Desai
D
Answer Key: C
Arjun Dangle
A
Eleanor Zelliot
C
Joseph Macwan
D
Answer Key: A
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Q46 :
A.K. Ramanujan
A
K. Shivaram Karanth
C
Aravind Malagatti
D
Answer Key: B
Dilip Chitre
A
Namdeo Dhasal
B
Arun Kolatkar
C
Nissim Ezekiel
D
Answer Key: B
Q48 : In which of the following novels does Velutha appears as an important character?
Kanthapura
A
Gora
C
The Guide
D
Answer Key: B
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Q49 : Who among the following is a famous character created by Mulk Raj Anand?
Raju
A
Bakha
B
Rosy
C
Swami
D
Answer Key: B
Q50 : Which among the following is an undelivered speech and provides ideological framework for poets,
writers and scholars on the issue of caste?
Annihilation of Caste
C
Castes in India...
D
Answer Key: C
Q51 : Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature by Sharankumar Limbale is translated from the Marathi
by _______.
Alok Mukherjee
A
Maya Pandit
B
Alok Bhalla
C
Sharad Patil
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D
Answer Key: A
Bamboo sticks
D
Answer Key: A
Q53 : The autonarrative of Baby Kamble which is translated from the marathi by Maya Pandit is
_________.
Upara
B
Sangati
C
Answer Key: A
Q54 : Who is referred to as “an upstart crow beautified with our feathers”?
Thomas Kyd
A
Shakespeare
B
Ben Jonson
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C
Spenser
D
Answer Key: B
An epic
A
A five-act play
D
Answer Key: B
Q56 : Which one of the following birds appears in "The Ancient Mariner"?
A nightingale
A
An albatross
B
A cuckoo
C
A peacock
D
Answer Key: B
Intelligent
A
Subjugated ones
B
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Coquettes
C
Answer Key: D
Angel Clare
A
Alec
B
Henchard
C
Clym
D
Answer Key: B
Q59 : Which one of the following Plays provides a hint for the tittle of Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New
World?
Othello
B
The Tempest
C
Macbeth
D
Answer Key: C
Q60 : Mr. And Mrs. Morel are the major characters in D.H. Lawrence’s novel, ______.
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The Rainbow
B
Answer Key: A
Q61 : G.B Shaw’s Arms and the Man deals with one of the following aspects:
Maritial incompatibility
B
Super naturalism
D
Answer Key: C
Q62 : May Fair Lady is a film version of one of the following plays of G.B. Shaw:
St. Joan
A
Pygmalion
C
Answer Key: C
F.R. Leaves
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A
W.B. Yeats
B
Ezra Pound
C
John Milton
D
Answer Key: C
Pamela
A
Amelia
B
Joseph Andrews
C
Andrews
D
Answer Key: A
a farce
A
a comedy
B
a satire on girls
C
a satire on hero-worship
D
Answer Key: B
Q66 : Sir Walter Scott’s "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" is______.
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A sonnet
A
An elegy
B
A satire
C
A Ballad
D
Answer Key: D
Historical Novels
A
Horror Novels
B
Domestic Novels
C
Science Fiction
D
Answer Key: C
Walt Whitman
A
Robert Frost
B
Sylvia Plath
C
Emily Dickinson
D
Answer Key: A
Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for his novel_______.
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Q69 :
Farewell to Arms
A
Answer Key: B
Q70 : Who is known for writing The Sound and the Fury?
Faulkner
A
Wallace Stevens
B
Hemingway
C
Tony Morrison
D
Answer Key: A
Fiesta
C
Answer Key: D
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Poems
A
Essays
B
Answer Key: C
Kamala Das
A
Sarojini Naidu
B
Meena Kandasami
C
Meena Alexander
D
Answer Key: C
Robert Frost
A
Abraham Lincoln
B
Roosevelt
C
George Bush
D
Answer Key: B
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Answer Key: D
A metrical skill
A
An extravagant exaggeration
B
A defect in speech
C
A casteist slur
D
Answer Key: B
1847
A
1854
B
1860
C
1843
D
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
A
N. Scot Momaday
B
William Faulkner
C
Soul Bellow
D
Answer Key: A
Q79 : The statement, "Poverty is parent of revolution and crime", is made by _______.
Aristotle
A
Plato
B
Oscar Wilde
C
George Eliot
D
Answer Key: A
T.S. Eliot
A
William Wordsworth
B
Coleridge
C
Mathew Arnold
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D
Answer Key: A
Answer Key: A
Lacan
A
Jacques Derrida
B
Saussure
C
Nietzsche
D
Answer Key: B
Q83 : The Interpretation of Dreams is a seminal work in the field of psycho analysis Which is written by
_____
Jackues Lacan
A
I.A. Richards
B
Sigmund Freud
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C
Adler
D
Answer Key: C
Q84 : Identify the writer who says, "Take everything you like seriously, except yourself".
Thomas Moore
A
Christina Rossetti
B
Rudyard Kipling
C
Charles Lamb
D
Answer Key: C
Q85 : Who among the following is a leading figure of the Theatre of Absurd?
Kingsly Amis
A
Samuel Beckett
B
W.B. Yeats
C
Thomas Hardy
D
Answer Key: B
Q86 : Identify a French poet, Playwright and a novelist who was the illegitimate son of a Persian prostitute
and became an orphan a few months after his birth.
Arthur Adamov
A
Eugene Ionesco
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B
Jean Genet
C
Samuel Beckett
D
Answer Key: C
Q87 : What kind of solution is suggested by Doris Lessing in her African Stories to the problem of the
black people who were subjected to the powerful white men?
Governmental remedy
A
International intervention
C
Democratic process
D
Answer Key: B
Q88 : Ralph Waldo Emerson is the pioneer of a literary movement in America which is known as_______.
Transcendentalism
A
Raphaelite Movement
B
Black Movement
D
Answer Key: A
Q89 : Identify an American writer belonging to the Gothic School who is called the pioneer of the modern
detective story.
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Nathaniel Kawthorne
B
Arthur Miller
C
Saul Bellow
D
Answer Key: A
Derrida
A
Robert Young
B
Roland Barthes
C
Graham Greene
D
Answer Key: C
Q91 : Choose a name of the person who made a following statement, "Poetry is interpertative by having
natural music in it and by having moral Profundity".
Wordsworth
A
Arnold
B
Coleridge
C
Keats
D
Answer Key: B
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Q92 : Choose a partition writer who was also an editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India.
Amrita Pritam
A
Khushwant Singh
B
Kamleshwar
C
Manto
D
Answer Key: B
Amartya Sen
A
R.K. Narayan
B
Raja Rao
C
Answer Key: B
Thomas Kyd
A
William Shakespeare
B
Ben Jonson
C
Marlowe
D
Answer Key: C
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England
A
France
B
Italy
C
Germany
D
Answer Key: A
Heart of Darkness
A
Nostromo
B
Lord Jim
C
Suspense
D
Answer Key: A
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Answer Key: B
Q98 : One of the following Indian English poets is known as a"confessional poet".
Nissim Ezekiel
A
Kamala Das
B
Gieve Patel
C
R. Parthsarathi
D
Answer Key: B
Q99 : Who said, “From error to error one discovers the entire truth” ?
Eric Fromm
A
Lacan
B
Sigmund Freud
C
C. J. Jung
D
Answer Key: C
a one-act play
A
a two-act play
B
a three-act play
C
a four-act play
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D
Answer Key: A
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