| Post Name | HSA - ENGLISH |
|---|---|
| Department | EDUCATION |
| Question Paper Code | 013/2015/OL |
| Category Code | 239/2013 |
| Date of Test | 20 August 2015 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
"Right to Property" was omitted from Part III of Indian Constitution by____________
Answer
A. 44th Amendment Act, 1978
2
Which article of Indian Constitution says the following provision concerned with the protection of children: "No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment"
Answer
D. Article 24
3
Who is credited to be called the "father of political movement in Modern Travancore"?
Answer
C. G. Parameswarn Pillai
4
Name the British Missionary who established an English school at Mattancheri in 1818 with the fincancial aid from Cochin Government:
Answer
B. Rev. J. Dawson
5
K. Ramakrishna Pillai worked as the editor of "Swadeshabhimani" from______________
Answer
D. 1906-1910
6
Who made the following statement in the meeting of Karnataka Mahila Conference which held on 1st October 1944: "Gandhiji had strong faith in women community and we should keep it up and it is our duty."
Answer
C. A.V. Kuttimalu Amma
7
P.N. Panicker, the "father of library movement in Kerala" was born in the year________
Answer
B. 1909
8
Who authored the book titled "The Decline of Nair Dominance: Society and Politics in Travancore, 1847-1908"?
Answer
D. Robin Jeffrey
9
Who among the following literary figure of Kerala received the honour of 'Companion of the Star of India' from the British Queen:
Answer
C. Kerala Varma Valiyakoil Thampuran
10
Arrange the following events of Kerala history in correct chronological order and select the correct answer with the help of the codes given below: (i) Guruvayur Satyagraha (ii) Ezhava Memorial (iii) Paliyam Satyagraha (iv)Malayalee Memorial CODES 1.(iv) (ii) (iii) (i) 2.(ii) (iv) (i) (iii) 3.(iv) (i) (iii) (ii) 4.(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
Answer
D. (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
11
Who bagged the 11th Sustainable Development Leadership Award of 2015?
Answer
A. Jose Manual Durao Barroso
12
Who was selected as the good will Ambassador for the 35th National Games?
Answer
B. Sachin Tendulkar
13
What was the main theme of 2015 Republic Day Parade?
Answer
C. Women Empowerment
14
Who won the Women's Singles title at the Syed Modi Grand Pix Gold Badminton Tournament 2015?
Answer
A. Saina Nehwal
15
India and US have signed a joint declaration of intent for co operation to increase partnership for which of the following programme?
Answer
C. Digital India
16
Who was the first person to use action research extensively for solving problems in education?
Answer
A. Stephen M. Corey
17
_________ is a scaled down sample of teaching process, aimed at simplifying the complexities of the regular teaching process.
Answer
B. Micro-teaching
18
________ are very useful to test the power of expression of the students.
Answer
B. Essay Questions
19
Which of the following abilities cannot be assessed in a written test?
Answer
C. Pronunciation
20
Which are the characteristics of a good text book?
Answer
D. All of the above
21
Who is the author of these lines? Unless this general evil they maintain, All men are bad, and in their badness reign.
Answer
A. Shakespeare
22
Which poem ends with the following line? "They also serve who only stand and wait."
Answer
B. On His Blindness
23
The meter in which Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written:
Answer
A. Iambic pentametre
24
When was Ode on a Grecian Urn written?
Answer
C. 1819
25
Who was Telemachus?
Answer
A. The Son of Ulysses
26
Which poem of Sylvia Plath is rich with Holocaust imagery?
Answer
B. Daddy
27
In which anthology of Kamala Das the poem An Introduction appeared?
Answer
A. Summer In Calcutta
28
The predominant themes of Frost’s poem Home Burial are...
Answer
A. Death of a child and collapse of a marriage
29
Wole Soyinka is a ------------------poet
Answer
D. Nigerian
30
Who is the author of the poem This is a Photograph of Me?
Answer
C. Margaret Atwood
31
What instrument does Nora use to dance the tarantella?
Answer
B. Tambourine
32
Maurya in Risers to the Sea tries to discourage ------------, her last living son from going to Connemara country fair in the mainland.
Answer
D. Bartley
33
The original subtitle of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is --------
Answer
C. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
34
The film version of Shaw's Pygmalion is -------------
Answer
B. My Fair Lady
35
Snake is a character in --------
Answer
A. The School for Scandal
36
Who kills Macbeth in the battle at the end of the play?
Answer
D. Macduff
37
Who becomes blind in the Second Act of Beckett's play Waiting for Godot?
Answer
B. Pozzo
38
What is the sweet that Nora has been forbidden to eat?
Answer
C. Macaroons
39
Which character in Death of a Salesman says, "He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong"?
Answer
A. Biff
40
Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is interested in writing ---------
Answer
B. Poetry
41
Who plays the villainous role in The God of Small Things?
Answer
D. Baby Kochamma
42
According to Dr. Radhakrishnan, the three obstacles that stand in the way of development are:
Answer
A. Ignorance, disease, and poverty
43
In "Of Studies", Bacon says that "Histories make man -----------"
Answer
B. Wise
44
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights was published in -------
Answer
C. 1847
45
In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, ----------- is obsessed with white complexion.
Answer
B. Pecola
46
Who is Santiago's only friend and companion in The Old Man and the Sea?
Answer
A. Manolin
47
Who is the sympathetic character in Orwell's Animal Farm?
Answer
D. Boxer
48
The essay 'On Tolerance" is written by ---------
Answer
D. E. M. Forster
49
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things bagged the -------- for fiction in 1997.
Answer
C. Booker Prize
50
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a ---------- novel.
Answer
B. Gothic
51
Rasa in Sanskrit means:
Answer
C. Essence
52
Who is the author of Dhvanyaloka? 3 of 6 10/03/2015 07:11 PM Home Page http://192.168.1.6/psc/modules/marklist/answer_...
Answer
A. Anandavardhana
53
What is meant by Peripeteia?
Answer
D. Reversal
54
When was the Preface to Lyrical Ballads published?
Answer
A. 1800
55
Who made the following remarks: “Good Sense is the Body of poetic genius, Fancy its Drapery, Motion its Life, and Imagination the Soul that is everywhere”.
Answer
C. Coleridge
56
Tradition and Individual Talent was published first in
Answer
A. The Egoist
57
What does signifier mean according to Saussure?
Answer
B. shape
58
Whose name is associated with the term gynocriticism?
Answer
B. Showalter
59
Who wrote the book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge?
Answer
A. Jean- Francois Lyotard
60
The Wretched of the Earth is penned by
Answer
C. Franz Fanon
61
Smallest distinctive unit of sound in the sound system of language is called a ----------
Answer
B. Phoneme
62
Words like 'Motel', 'Brunch' and 'Smog' are formed in a special way and this process is known as ------------
Answer
A. Blending
63
Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA), essentially a structuralist tool for syntactic analysis, was first introduced by ----------
Answer
D. Bloomfield
64
The native speaker's knowledge of the structure of a language is his linguistic -----------
Answer
C. Competence
65
------------is the active articulator in the oral cavity.
Answer
D. Tongue
66
English RP has ---------- pure vowels or monothongs.
Answer
A. 12
67
A phonemic transcription is also called --------- transcription.
Answer
D. Broad
68
Statements are normally spoken in the --------------tone.
Answer
B. Falling
69
The study of meaning and its manifestation in language is referred to as ----------
Answer
C. Semantics
70
Germanic languages are also known by the term -------------
Answer
A. Teutonic
71
Correct the following sentence, where necessary :- It is high time he improves his behaviour.
Answer
A. It is high time he improved his behaviour.
72
They _____________ at about one O'clock.
Answer
C. usually have lunch
73
He is the ________ to this estate.
Answer
D. Heir
74
Which of the following idioms means "something which causes quarrel"?
Answer
B. Apple of discord
75
The antonym of "adversity" is __________
Answer
D. Prosperity
76
The word "callous" means __________
Answer
B. Insensitive
77
Write one word for "that which cannot be conquered or defeated".
Answer
B. Invincible
78
Which of the following words means "skilled" or "expert"?
Answer
A. Adept
79
Which of the following idioms means "to break an uncomfortable silence"?
Answer
D. Break the ice
80
A picture is ___________ on the wall.
Answer
A. Hung
81
Spain is _________ European country.
Answer
D. a
82
You should sympathize ___________ the blind.
Answer
C. with
83
It is amazing how much George ________ his grandfather.
Answer
B. resembles
84
My aunt Martha ____________ to smoke a lot.
Answer
C. used
85
She hardly remembers anything, __________
Answer
C. does she?
86
"Invite him to the meeting." Which among the following options is true when the above sentence is converted into passive voice?
Answer
B. Let him be invited to the meeting.
87
"And" is an example of __________
Answer
C. Co-ordinating conjunction
88
A ___________ is made up of two or more main clauses.
Answer
D. Compound sentence
89
He will say, "I am not well." Which among the following options is true, when the above sentence is converted into indirect speech?
Answer
A. He will say that he is not well.
90
Tom offered __________ us to the railway station.
Answer
C. to drive
91
Who proposed the concept of Radical Behaviourism?
Answer
D. Skinner
92
Who authored the book The Teacher’s Word Book
Answer
A. Thorndike
93
The founder of Constructivism
Answer
B. Jean Piaget
94
Stephen Krashen’s name is associated with
Answer
C. Theory of Second Language Acquisition
95
T L stands for
Answer
C. Target Language
96
In which method of teaching, stress is being given to pronunciation?
Answer
A. Direct Method
97
ICT means
Answer
C. Information and Communication Technology
98
The educational testing must be
Answer
A. reliable
99
Kinesthetic learners are
Answer
D. Using all their senses for learning
100
Kerala Curriculum Framework (KCF) was published in
Answer
D. 2007
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