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Key Facts: Maharashtra HSC Marathi Literature (MSBSHSE) Exam

Code 23

MSBSHSE HSC general subject code for Marathi Literature (optional elective)

mahahsscboard.org HSC general subject codes list

Code 02

MSBSHSE subject code for language Marathi — distinct from Marathi Literature (23)

mahahsscboard.org HSC general subject codes list

3 hours

Typical theory duration for Maharashtra HSC literature/language-type papers

MSBSHSE HSC language/literature paper pattern summaries (confirm year circular)

80 + 20

Common theory + oral/internal split pattern for language-type HSC subjects (subject total 100; confirm year scheme)

MSBSHSE / Maharashtra HSC subject pattern summaries

35%

Commonly reported minimum pass mark overall per subject (with separate theory floor often cited)

MSBSHSE HSC pass-criteria summaries (confirm current circular)

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Local bank is a 100-item English MCQ study aid — not a full official paper or Marathi long-answer substitute

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Maharashtra HSC Marathi Literature (MSBSHSE, code 23) is the literature elective — not language Marathi (code 02). Subject total is commonly 100 marks via ~80 theory (~3 h) + oral/internal where notified. Pass is commonly 35% overall with a separate theory floor as notified. Fees are as notified by MSBSHSE through junior colleges. This free 2026 bank is an English MCQ study adaptation for literary concepts — not an official paper simulation and not a substitute for constructed answers on prescribed texts.

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1On the MSBSHSE HSC general subject codes list, Marathi Literature is listed as subject code:
A.23
B.02
C.01
D.22
Explanation: MSBSHSE lists Marathi Literature as subject code 23. Language Marathi is code 02, Compulsory English is 01, and English Literature is 22. Code 23 is the literature elective, not the language paper.
2Maharashtra HSC Marathi Literature (code 23) is best described as:
A.A pure listening-only oral exam with no written paper
B.An optional literature elective focused on literary texts, history, genres, and criticism — distinct from language Marathi
C.The same paper as language Marathi (code 02) under a different name
D.Only a grammar and letter-writing paper
Explanation: Marathi Literature (code 23) is the optional literature elective. Language Marathi (code 02) centres on language skills. The literature paper develops literary history, genres, authors, devices, and critical response to texts.
3The earliest substantial phase of Marathi literary culture is often linked to which of the following contexts?
A.Only post-Independence modernist little magazines of the 1960s
B.Only British-era English translations with no local roots
C.Yadava-period and early medieval Marathi, including Mahanubhav and early saint literature
D.Only twentieth-century cinema song lyrics
Explanation: Histories of Marathi literature typically begin with early medieval Marathi (including the Yadava-period milieu) and early religious prose/poetry such as Mahanubhav writings and the rise of saint literature—not only modern magazines or film songs.
4The Mahanubhav tradition is especially associated in Marathi literary history with:
A.Only English blank-verse tragedy
B.Only commercial detective novels of the 1950s
C.Only Sanskrit court drama with no Marathi prose
D.Early Marathi religious prose and biography (e.g., Līḷācaritra traditions) outside mainstream Warkari abhang alone
Explanation: Mahanubhav literature is an important early Marathi strand, known for religious prose and biographical narrative traditions (such as the Līḷācaritra corpus) distinct from the later/parallel Warkari abhang tradition.
5The Warkari–Bhakti phase in Marathi literature is best characterised by:
A.Devotional poetry and song (abhang and related forms) associated with Vithoba of Pandharpur and saint-poets
B.Only colonial census reports
C.Only French naturalist novels in translation
D.Only courtroom procedural drama
Explanation: Warkari–Bhakti literature centres on devotion to Vithoba (Vitthal) of Pandharpur and is expressed especially through abhang and related saint-poetry by figures such as Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Eknath, and Tukaram.
6Sant Dnyaneshwar’s Dnyāneśwarī (Bhāvārthadīpikā) is primarily:
A.A modern realist novel about Pune college life
B.A commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā composed in Marathi verse (ovi tradition)
C.A British-period newspaper editorial series
D.A detective trilogy in prose
Explanation: The Dnyāneśwarī (also called Bhāvārthadīpikā) is Dnyaneshwar’s celebrated Marathi verse commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā, traditionally associated with the ovi metre and foundational to Marathi Bhakti literature.
7Which sequence best orders major Warkari saint-poets commonly surveyed in Marathi literary history?
A.Only 20th-century modernists with no medieval saints
B.Tukaram → then only English Romantic poets
C.Dnyaneshwar and Namdev (earlier Bhakti) → Eknath → Tukaram (later classic abhang)
D.Only Mardhekar → then only Dnyaneshwar (reverse chronology as the sole timeline)
Explanation: Standard surveys place Dnyaneshwar and Namdev in the earlier Bhakti flowering, Eknath in a middle consolidation phase, and Tukaram as a later towering abhang poet—though exact dating debates exist, this order is the usual school-level sequence.
8The Panditi (erudite/scholar-poet) phase in Marathi is associated especially with:
A.Only street theatre with no Sanskrit learning
B.Only Twitter-era microfiction
C.Only folk lavani with zero classical reference
D.Highly Sanskritised, learned poetic composition (e.g., Moropant and related pandit-kavis)
Explanation: Panditi kāvya emphasises learned, often highly Sanskritised poetic craft. Moropant is a frequently cited exemplar of this erudite tradition, distinct from folk shahiri performance poetry.
9The Shahiri tradition in Marathi is best linked to:
A.Performance-oriented popular poetry such as powada and lavani associated with shahirs
B.Only laboratory science textbooks
C.Only Upanishadic Sanskrit prose
D.Only French Symbolist free verse
Explanation: Shahiri is the popular performance-poetry tradition of shahirs, famous for forms such as powada (heroic ballad) and lavani, distinct from pandit-kavya’s learned register.
10A key feature of the nineteenth-century modern beginnings of Marathi literature is:
A.Complete abandonment of print culture
B.Growth of print, prose, journalism, reform writing, and new prose genres alongside poetry
C.Only oral abhang with no prose experiments
D.Only Hollywood screenplay format as the sole genre
Explanation: Modern Marathi emerges with print culture, newspapers/journals, social-reform writing, and expanding prose genres (essay, novel, short story) alongside poetry—figures and institutions of the nineteenth century shape this transition.

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