| Post Name | HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER - ENGLISH - SR FOR SC-ST |
|---|---|
| Department | EDUCATION |
| Question Paper Code | 070/2016/OL |
| Category Code | 034/2016 |
| Date of Test | 8 September 2016 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
Who won 2016 Austrian Open title of Tennis (Grand Slam) in women's category ?
Answer
C. Angelique Kerber
2
Which is the specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping ?
Answer
D. IMO
3
Who is remembered as the patron saint of India's Civil Service for establishing modern All India Service ?
Answer
A. Sardhar Vallabhabhai Patel
4
Who is the present RBI Governor ?
Answer
Question Cancelled
5
Who was selected as the best film actress in 2015 national award for her performance in film Queen ?
Answer
A. Kangana Ranaut
6
The ruler who issued Royal proclamation abolishing slavery in Travancore ?
Answer
D. Rani Gouri Lakshmi Bai
7
Which is the longest river in Kerala ?
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B. Periyar
8
The first women to become a member in Travancore legislative assembly ?
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C. Mary Punnen Lukkose
9
The founder and editor of women's Magazine Shrimathi ?
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D. Anna Chandi
10
Who consecrated Ezhava Siva at Aruvippuram ?
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B. Sreenarayana Guru
11
Teacher pupil interaction inside the classroom should generate
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C. Ideas
12
In order to have an efficient learning, learner should have
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D. Desired level of ability and motivation
13
"Spare the rod and spoil the child", gives the message that
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C. Undesirable behaviour must be punished
14
With respect to the development of skills, which one is the correct answer ?
Answer
A. Children of same mental age should learn at the same rate
15
Evaluate feedback in the class should be provided through
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D. All of these
16
Which of the following statement is correct ?
Answer
B. Researches lead to discovery
17
A research article is a brief report of research work based on
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C. Both Primary and Secondary Data
18
Which of the following is non-probability sampling ?
Answer
A. Snowball
19
Qualitative research approaches have
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D. All the above
20
The ethical debates in qualitative research revolve around
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D. All the above
21
The right of Children to have free and compulsory education up to the age of 14 was made a fundamental right under Article 21A of Indian Constitution in
Answer
B. 2002
22
The function of National Judicial Appointment Commission is not to
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D. To remove the Chief Justice and other judges of Supreme Court and High Courts
23
The term "Secular" was inserted in the preamble of our Constitution by
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A. 42nd Amendment to the Constitution
24
An Amendment to Article 368 of Indian Constitution requires
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C. Special majority and ratification of the states
25
Indian Constitution is composed of following parts and schedules
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D. 25 parts and 12 schedules
26
Name the employment scheme of Government of India that guarantee 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled work.
Answer
B. National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
27
The permission for import and export of Hazardous Waste in to or out of India is granted by
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C. Ministry of Environment and Forests
28
Right to receive food security allowance is a guaranteed right according to
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A. The National Food Security Act, 2014
29
The information sought by an applicant under the Right to Information Act, 2005 shall be supplied within
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C. 30 days
30
People's Biodiversity Register shall contain comprehensive information on
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D. All of these
31
Which play's epilogue is considered as Shakespeare's farewell to theatre ?
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C. The Tempest
32
In Hamlet who says "The lady doth protest too much" ?
Answer
B. Gertrude
33
Lady Bellaston is a character from the novel
Answer
C. Tom Jones
34
In Pope's Atticus passage of "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot", who is Atticus compared to in an attempt to describe his habit of blowing his own trumpet ?
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A. Cato
35
Name the character in the Duchess of Malfi who may be described as a murderer who speaks poetry ?
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C. Bosola
36
In which work of Johnson does he mention the phrase 'discordia concors' to explain the wit of Metaphysical poets ?
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A. Life of Cowley
37
Which essay of Bacon starts with a reference to Pilate from the Bible ?
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B. Of Truth
38
Who is described in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales as "an outrider who loved hunting" ?
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D. Monk
39
A School for Scandal was performed for the first time at
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A. Drury Lane
40
Who among Shakespeare's characters said, "If music is the food of love, play on" ?
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B. Duke Orsino
41
Which poem inspired Rossetti to pen the "The Blessed Damozel" ?
Answer
A. "The Raven"
42
Name the Feminist critic who read Wuthering Heights as Emily Bronte's myth about creation.
Answer
C. Sandra Gilbert
43
Which quality of his wife's had, according to Henchard done him "more harm than the bitterest temper" ?
Answer
B. Meekness
44
Who is the author of Fearful Symmetry ?
Answer
D. Northrope Frye
45
"Behold the child among his new-born blisses". Whose son is referred to in these lines from "Immortality Ode" ?
Answer
B. Coleridge's
46
"If Austen's is an art of the cameo, Dicken's is one of the poster". Which critic said this ?
Answer
A. Terry Eagleton
47
Ernest is the fictitious identity of __________ in importance of Being Earnest.
Answer
A. Jack Worthing
48
Which character in Pride and Prejudice stands testimony to Austen's distaste for high aristocracy ?
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C. Catherine de Bourgh
49
Which poem of Hopkins is dedicated to 'Christ our Lord' ?
Answer
C. "The Windhover"
50
Whom does Lamb describe as "the most irrelevant thing in nature", "a lion in your path", "A Lazarus at your door" and so on in one of his essays ?
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B. Poor relation
51
In the myth of Pygmalion, who brings about the transformation of Galatea ?
Answer
C. Aphrodite
52
"I leave you to the pleasures of your higher vices", says the first Tempter in Murder in the Cathedral. What is the "higher vice" mentioned ?
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C. Spiritual pride
53
Name the character in Waiting for Godot who can't think without his bowler ?
Answer
D. Lucky
54
The title "A Game of Chess" which forms the II section of "The Wasteland" is borrowed from the title of which dramatist's play ?
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B. Thomas Middleton
55
Dylan Thomas' "Poem in October" commemorates his birthday. Which one?
Answer
A. 30th
56
From among the following poets pick out the one who is not a Movement poet ?
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D. Peter Porter
57
Seamus Heaney's "Tollund man" foregrounds his __________ perspective.
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C. Archaeological
58
Who is the Christ figure in Lord of the Flies ?
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A. Simon
59
Anna in The Golden Notebook has a rejuvenating experience towards the end with
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A. Saul
60
The setting for Greene's The Heart of the Matter is a British Colony in
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B. West Africa
61
According to Aristotle ___________ "is very artless and least particular to the art of poetic composition."
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D. Spectacle
62
"His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be ____________". Complete the quote by Johnson on Shakespeare.
Answer
A. Instinct
63
In Rasa theory, the bodily expression by which emotion is communicated is called
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B. Anubhava
64
The two poets on whom Arnold puts the charge of lacking "high seriousness" are
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B. Burns and Chaucer
65
From which collection of essays is Lionel Trilling's "Freud and Literature" taken ?
Answer
C. The Liberal imagination
66
The male critic whom Elaine Showalter identifies as a prime example of androcentric criticism in her 1979 essay is
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A. Irving Howe
67
To what chemical process does T.S. Eliot compare the poetic process in "Tradition and Individual Talent" ?
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C. Catalytic reaction
68
In "What is an Author" ? Foucault argues that the author is
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C. An author function
69
"The Language of Paradox" was first published in
Answer
D. 1942
70
The literary term for transferring the usual perception of an object into the sphere of a new perception to make a unique semantic modification is called
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C. Defamiliarisation
71
__________ was formulated to explain how the Great Consonant Shift happened.
Answer
B. Grimm's Law
72
The structural device that formed an essential part of versification in Old English is
Answer
A. Alliteration
73
The Middle English period begins with the __________ conquest.
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A. Norman
74
What were the striking differences between Chaucerian and present day pronunciations due to?
Answer
D. The Great Vowel Shift
75
The shifting of stress from the initial syllable was the result of ________ influence.
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C. Latin
76
The formation of the word 'atone' from the old usage 'at one' is an example of
Answer
D. Telescoping
77
The word 'pandemonium' is the contribution of
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B. Milton
78
The ways in which sounds influence each other is called
Answer
C. Assimilation
79
Transformational Generative Grammar was first introduced by
Answer
B. Chomsky
80
Who is the proponent of the approach called descriptive linguistics ?
Answer
A. Bloomfield
81
"I must work fast, faster than Scheherazade". From which Indian English novel is this quote taken ?
Answer
D. Midnight's Children
82
The narrative cycle in The Bluest Eye begins with the ______ season.
Answer
A. Autumn
83
To which frost collection does "The Road Not Taken" belong ?
Answer
D. Mountain Interval
84
What imagery is used in "Daddy" to describe the husband ?
Answer
D. Vampire
85
Ezekial's "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher" is taken from
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B. The Exact Name
86
Who in The Glass Menagerie is the chief spokesperson for the American dream ?
Answer
B. Jim
87
From where is the title of Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury taken ?
Answer
C. Macbeth
88
Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman" begins with a scathing attack on
Answer
A. Stereotypes
89
Which character in Padmanabhan's Harvest tries to appropriate Jaya's body in the final scene ?
Answer
A. Virgil
90
In which year was Ellison's Invisible Man published ?
Answer
B. 1952
91
Name the postcolonial critic who used the phrase 'derivative discourse' as the subtitle of his book which challenges Benedict Anderson's model.
Answer
C. Partha Chatterjee
92
Which postcolonial critic, in reworking the Oedipal concept of identity formation, described colonialism as an Oedipal scene of forbidden desire (for the white woman) ?
Answer
D. Frantz Fanon
93
Who is the author of Epistemology of the Closet ?
Answer
B. Eva Sedgwick
94
A method based on the parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts is called
Answer
A. New Historicism
95
The founder of Ecocriticism as an institutional movement in the USA is
Answer
C. Cheryll Glotfelty
96
Name the author of the work, Finding the Centre : Two Narratives, in which home is figured as an illusion for immigrants.
Answer
C. V.S. Naipaul
97
What is the term Homi Bhabha appropriates from Freud to describe border disruptions causing trauma and anxiety that subvert binaries in diasporic identity constructions ?
Answer
B. Uncanny
98
The idea that everything is a model or an image, all is surface without depth is termed _________ by Baudrillard.
Answer
D. Hypereality
99
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is the work of
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A. Jurgen Habermas
100
Cultural Studies in Britain developed out of the work of __________ through Hoggart and Raymond Williams.
Answer
B. F. R. Leavis
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