MH SET Paper 2 Mock Test - 5 (English) - MAHA TET MCQ

The correct answer is ‘It makes him more determined to win her back.’ 

Key Points

• Heathcliff's belief that Catherine loves him more than she loves Edgar Linton makes him more determined to win her back. 
• He is willing to do anything to achieve this goal, even if it means using underhanded or even violent tactics.
• He is also unwilling to compromise with Edgar Linton, as he believes that Edgar is unworthy of Catherine's love.

Therefore, the correct answer is ‘Option 1.’

The correct answer is ‘She loves him more than Edgar Linton.’

Key Points

• Heathcliff is convinced that Catherine loves him more than she loves Edgar Linton. 
• He believes that Catherine's love for him is deep and enduring.
• He thinks that Catherine's love for Edgar is superficial and fleeting.

Therefore, the correct answer is ‘Option 2.’

The correct answer is 'To a Skylark.'

 Key Points

• "To a Skylark" is a major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley, known for its revolutionary and visionary themes.
• The poem is an ode addressed to a skylark, celebrating the bird's unbounded freedom and contrasting it with the limitations of human existence.
• Shelley uses the skylark as a symbol of the poet's aspirations for a better, more liberated world.
• The poem reflects Shelley's belief in the transformative power of poetry to inspire social change.
• Shelley, a Romantic poet, was deeply influenced by political and social issues, and "To a Skylark" exemplifies his visionary and revolutionary spirit.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 2'.

 Additional Information

• Option 1 is incorrect. "Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats, not Shelley. It explores themes of mortality and the contrast between the ideal and the real.
• Option 3 is incorrect. "Endymion" is a narrative poem by John Keats, not Shelley. It follows the mythological story of Endymion and focuses on the theme of beauty and ideal love.
• Option 4 is incorrect. "The Eve of St. Agnes" is another poem by John Keats, not Shelley. It is a romantic narrative poem with elements of the supernatural.

Dylan Thomas is associated with the group  - The New Apocalypse

The correct answer is 'Theatre of Absurd'.

Key Points

• Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot belongs to the theatre of the absurd.
• It is a type of play that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence through the use of fragmented, purposeless, and perplexing settings, meaningless speech, and narratives lacking realistic and logical progression.
• The term "Theatre of the Absurd" was coined by Martin Esslin.
• The Theatre of the Absurd challenges religious or political orthodoxy's comfortable certainties. Its goal is to shake its audience out of their complacency by confronting them with the unpleasant reality of the human situation as seen by these writers.

Therefore, the correct option is 'Option 1'.

Important Points

• Samuel Barclay Beckett was a novelist, dramatist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and literary translator from Ireland.
• He is regarded as one of the last modernist writers, as well as a crucial role in what Martin Esslin referred to as the Theatre of the Absurd.
• Murphy (1938), Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951), The Unnamable (1953), Waiting for Godot (1953), Watt (1953), Endgame (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), How It Is (1960), Happy Days (play) (1960) are among Samuel Beckett's major works.

Additional Information

• The phrase "epic theatre" was coined by Erwin Piscator. The goal of epic drama is to force an audience to see their reality as it is, rather than to encourage them to suspend their disbelief.
• Theatre of Cruelty, concept for an experimental theater proposed by French poet, actor, and theorist Antonin Artaud that had a significant influence on avant-garde 20th-century theatre.
• Augusto Boal was a Brazilian dramatist who founded the Theatre of the Oppressed, a style of interactive theatre that aims to improve lives by transforming viewers into players who act out solutions to social problems.

Language transfer (also known as L1 interference, linguistic interference, and crosslinguistic influence) refers to speakers or writers applying knowledge from one language to another language.

The correct answer is 'He had always believed himself to be of humble origins.'

 Key Points

• The excerpt states that Durbeyfield had "never heard" of his family's noble lineage before.
• This suggests that he had always believed himself to be of humble origins, making the revelation of his noble ancestry a surprise to him.
• The excerpt does not provide any evidence to support the idea that Durbeyfield had recently discovered evidence of his noble lineage, expected to inherit a large fortune, or had been studying genealogy.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 1.'

Additional Information

• Options 2, 3, and 4 are incorrect because the excerpt does not provide any evidence to support these claims. 

The correct answer is 'Informative and neutral.'

 Key Points

• The speaker provides Durbeyfield with information about his family history in a straightforward and objective manner.
• There is no evidence of boastfulness, arrogance, sarcasm, or condescension in the speaker's tone.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 4.'

Additional Information

• Options 1, 2, and 3 are incorrect because the excerpt does not provide any evidence to support these claims 

The correct answer is 'Look Back in Anger.'

 Key Points

• "Look Back in Anger" is a groundbreaking play by John Osborne, first performed in 1956.
• The play is a seminal work of the "Angry Young Men" movement in British drama, reflecting the discontent and disillusionment of the working class in post-war Britain.
• The protagonist, Jimmy Porter, becomes a symbol of the angry and frustrated young man railing against societal conventions.
• Osborne's play is characterized by its raw emotion, social critique, and departure from traditional theatrical conventions.
• "Look Back in Anger" marked a significant shift in British drama, challenging the established order and paving the way for more realistic and socially relevant plays.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 2'.

 Additional Information

• Option 1 is incorrect. "The Caretaker" is a play by Harold Pinter, not John Osborne. It explores themes of power, identity, and social dynamics.
• Option 3 is incorrect. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a play by Edward Albee, not John Osborne. It delves into the complexities of marriage and societal expectations.
• Option 4 is incorrect. "The Birthday Party" is a play by Harold Pinter, not John Osborne. It involves psychological tension and absurdity.

In "Signs Taken For Wonders," Homi K. Bhabha examines several moments in postcolonial ... that depict the "sudden, fortuitous discovery of the English book" (102). ... that the English book points toward the fixity of Colonial power, along with its ... the "English book" serve as a foil for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's essay "Can ...

The correct answer is 'The resilience and hope for a revival of the harp's music.'

Key Points

• The speaker portrays the harp as hanging lonely on a withered bough, emphasizing its desolation.
• Describing the harp as unstrung forever, the poem highlights its perpetual silence and abandonment.
• The harp's current state reflects neglect, muteness, and desolation, akin to a ruined monument in a deserted landscape.
• Despite its desolation, the speaker expresses a strong desire for the revival of the harp's music, symbolizing a hopeful resurgence of India's cultural heritage.

The “Battle of Books” is a short satire penned by Jonathan Swift, the greatest satirist of English Literature. It was published in 1704 as a part of “A Tale of Tub” by Swift.

The Battle of the Books” begins with a note from the bookseller to the reader, telling the reader that it refers to a “famous dispute about ancient and modern learning. ”

It describes the famous battle between books ancient and Modern which literally took place in King’s Library.

It was known for one of the most important collections of books and pamphlets of the Age of Enlightenment.

However, the manuscript about the battle is incomplete, so we still do not know who won.

King Lear is one of the four greatest tragedies of Shakespeare and perhaps of the English Literature. Disguise is an old tradition, employed by Shakespeare in almost all his plays, whether it is comedy or tragedy. In King Lear, there are two disguises first one is Edgar and the other is Kent and both are misfortune and exiled.

Kent is a loyal, selfless and devoted nobleman of the King Lear. He is exiled by the king for his exceptionally blunt and outspoken nature. He assumes the disguise of a peasant named Caius, to stay close to the king and serve him even after get banished.

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a one act comic play by Bernard Shaw first premiered in 1910. The play resume the first meeting of William Shakespeare with Queen Elizabeth while he was intending to meet the Dark lady on whom his sonnets are based.

George Bernard Shaw’s The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a fun, one act play that reconceive William Shakespeare’s and Queen Elizabeth’s first meeting. Written as an appeal to create a National Theatre in England, the short play has William is going to Whitehall palace to meet the Dark Lady to whom he addresses his sonnets of love and eventually meet Queen Elizabeth there.

The correct answer is ‘The speaker takes off his cycle-clips, moves forward and runs his hand around the font, mounts the lectern, pronounces "Here endeth", signs the book at the door, and donates an Irish sixpence.’ 

Key Points

• The speaker takes off his cycle-clips in awkward reverence. 
• He moves forward and runs his hand around the font.
• He mounts the lectern and peruses a few hectoring large-scale verses.
• He pronounces "Here endeth" much more loudly than he intended.
• He signs the book at the door and donates an Irish sixpence.

Therefore, the correct answer is ‘Option 1.’

He means that his neighbour is a traditionalist and is not prepared to change his views.

• "O Captain! My Captain!" was written by Walt Whitman in 1865, shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
• The poem is an elegy, a poem of mourning, that expresses Whitman's grief over Lincoln's death.
• In the poem, Whitman compares Lincoln to a ship's captain who has successfully guided his ship through a perilous journey, only to die just as the ship reaches its destination.

• Option 1 is incorrect because "O Captain! My Captain!" was not composed in 1765.
• Option 3 is incorrect because "O Captain! My Captain!" was not composed in 1885.
• Option 4 is incorrect because "O Captain! My Captain!" was not composed in 1895.

The correct answer is 'The study of the reader's role in interpreting a text'.

Key Points

• Reception Theory, also known as Reader-Response Criticism, is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader's reception of a literary text.
• It emerged in the late 20th century, challenging the then-dominant New Criticism which focused on the text itself, disregarding the reader's role in giving it meaning.
• Reception theorists like Hans-Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser argue that a text does not exist in isolation. Instead, its meaning is a dynamic process created in the interaction between the reader and the text.
• This means that every reader, based on their background, experiences, and context, will have a unique interpretation of the text.
• Thus, in Reception Theory, the text's meaning isn't fixed or inherent but is constructed and reconstructed by its readers.

The correct answer is 'Andrew Marvell and Robert Herrick.'

 Key Points

• The Cavalier Poets were a group of 17th-century poets associated with the court of Charles I.
• Andrew Marvell and Robert Herrick are two prominent Cavalier Poets who expressed themes of love, carpe diem, and the pleasures of life.
• Marvell's famous works include "To His Coy Mistress," exploring themes of time and seduction.
• Herrick is known for his carpe diem poetry, celebrating the transient nature of life, as seen in poems like "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time."
• **The Cavalier Poets often contrasted with the metaphysical poets of the same period, emphasizing sensuality and enjoyment of life.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 3'.

 Additional Information

• Option 1 is incorrect. John Donne and George Herbert are associated with the Metaphysical Poets, not the Cavalier Poets.
• Option 2 is incorrect. Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe are Elizabethan/Jacobean playwrights, not Cavalier Poets.
• Option 4 is incorrect. John Milton and Edmund Spenser belong to different literary periods and styles, not the Cavalier Poets.

• Derek Walcott's family has a diverse descent, including English, Dutch, and African heritage.
• The term "Mongoloid" typically refers to a racial category and is not associated with Derek Walcott's family background.
• Walcott himself was of mixed-race heritage, reflecting the cultural complexity of the Caribbean.

The correct answer is "Helen Cixous."

Key Points

• Écriture féminine also stands for "women's writing," first used in the 1975 essay "The Laugh of the Medusa," coined by French feminist and literary scholar Hélène Cixous.
• "Ecriture féminine," by definition, means subversive, rule-transcending, and intoxicating.
• Cixous' idea is that a pure force of the feminine can be released from the body, which is said to be somehow resistant to societal and gender conditions.

Therefore, option 3 is the correct answer.

Additional Information

• American feminist and literary critic Elaine Showalter also writes about issues related to society and culture. She had an impact on the development of the word "gynocritics," which refers to the study of "women as authors" and the practice of feminist literary critique in American academia.
• The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud is credited with developing psychoanalysis, a clinical approach to diagnosing and treating diseases said to result from psychiatric conflicts, and the unique mental theory and human agency that emerged from it.
• American philosopher and gender studies author Judith Pamela Butler's writings have had an impact on political philosophy, ethics, third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory.

Plato censured poetry because he believed it distorts reality

The correct answer is 'They often end in marriage.'

Key Points

• Shakespeare's comedies often end in marriage.
• This is because marriage is seen as a happy and desirable outcome in Shakespeare's time.
• Marriage also provides a resolution to the conflict in the play.

Additional Information

• (2) Shakespeare's comedies often feature mistaken identities, but this is not a key characteristic.
• (3) Shakespeare's comedies sometimes include elements of the supernatural, but this is not a key characteristic.
• (4) Shakespeare's comedies are not always set in England.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 1'.

The correct answer is 'Alfred Lord Tennyson.'

 Key Points

• Tennyson (1809-1892) was a prominent Victorian poet and served as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign.
• "The Princess: A Medley" is one of Tennyson's major works, written in the form of a narrative poem.
• It was first published in 1847 and explores themes of love, feminism, and the role of women in society.
• The poem tells the story of Princess Ida, who renounces the world of men to establish a women's university.
• Tennyson's poetic style in "The Princess" is characterized by rich imagery, lyrical beauty, and exploration of complex social issues.
• **The work reflects Tennyson's engagement with contemporary social and cultural concerns.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 1'.

 Additional Information

• William Wordsworth (Option 2) was a Romantic poet, known for his emphasis on nature and everyday life.
• John Keats (Option 3) was another Romantic poet, renowned for his sensuous and vivid imagery.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (Option 4) was a major Romantic poet, associated with radical political and social ideas.

“Forlorn! the very word is like a bell

To toll me back from thee to my sole self!

Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well

As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.

Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades

Past the near meadows, over the still stream,

Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep

In the next valley-glades:  

Was it a vision, or a waking dream?

Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?”

John Keats. "Ode to a Nightingale"

• Andrea del Sarto is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning published in his 1855 poetry collection, Men and Women. The poem centered on the Italian painter Andrea del Sarto who was influenced by many great painters such as Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Fra’ Bartolommeo.

• Andrea compares himself with his contemporary Rafael and claims as well that his work lacks the spirit and soul which Raphael has in his creations. He consider himself only a “craftsman” (line 82). He contemplates himself a failure as an artist, because he has only one talent: the ability to create faultless paintings.

The correct answer is 'Strong and Weak.'

 Key Points

• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is often presented in two versions: the strong version and the weak version.
• The strong version suggests that language determines thought, imposing a strict constraint on cognitive processes.
• The weak version, which is more widely accepted, proposes that language influences thought, shaping but not determining cognitive processes.
• These terms, "strong" and "weak," describe the degree of influence that language is believed to have on thought within the hypothesis.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 4.'

 Additional Information

• Option 1: While determinism and relativity are related concepts, they do not specifically describe the two versions of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
• Option 2: This does not accurately represent the terms used to describe the two versions of the hypothesis.
• Option 3: The terms "linguistic" and "cognitive" do not specifically describe the strong and weak versions of the hypothesis.

The correct answer is 'William Wordsworth.'

 Key Points

• William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a prominent English Romantic poet.
• The excerpt is from his famous poem titled "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" or "Daffodils."
• Wordsworth is known for his celebration of nature and its impact on human emotions.
• This poem reflects his connection with nature and the joy it brings.
• The daffodils in the poem symbolize beauty, inspiration, and the enduring power of nature.
• Wordsworth was one of the key figures in the Romantic movement, emphasizing emotions and individual experiences in poetry.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 1'.

Additional Information

• John Keats (Option 2) was another notable Romantic poet, known for his odes and emphasis on sensuous imagery. 
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (Option 3) was a major poet of the Romantic era, associated with radical political and social ideas.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Option 4) was a Romantic poet and close associate of Wordsworth, known for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".

Shashi Deshpande's 1990 Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel That Long Silence (1988) is a slow, delicate, painful self revelation. Shashi Deshpande studies the issues and problems of contemporary middle class woman in this novel.