| Post Name | HSST - ENGLISH (JR) |
|---|---|
| Question Paper Code | 008/2015/OL |
| Category Code | 071/2012, 008/2015 |
| Date of Test | 28 April 2015 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
Who introduced Printing Press in Kerala?
Answer
D. The Portuguese
2
The book 'Vrithamanjari' was written by
Answer
A. A.R. Raja Raja Varma
3
The 'Samyukta Rastriya Samathi' ( Joint Political Congress ), the organisation, was in connection with
Answer
B. Abstention Movement
4
'Sabdikkunna Kalappa' a short story written by
Answer
C. Ponkunnam Varky
5
Who organised an All Religions Conference in Alwaye Advaita Ashram
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A. Sree Narayana Guru
6
Who was the director of the film 'Perariyathavar'
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C. Dr Biju
7
Who was the recipient of 'Vyasa Samman' of 2013 ?
Answer
B. Viswanath Tripathi
8
Which team was the first champion of the 'Hero Indian Super League'?
Answer
D. Atletico De Kolkata
9
The Yarlung Zangbo river, in India, is known as?
Answer
C. Brahmaputra
10
The minimum age to qualify for election to the Loksabha is
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A. 25 years
11
To cater to the needs of slow learners in the class, a teacher should give
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B. remedial teaching
12
Inductive reasoning is
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A. bottom up process
13
If the students on the back bench are talking while teaching in the class, the teacher should
Answer
C. ask them to sit on front benches
14
'Learning readiness' involves
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D. all of the above
15
Why are additional exercises and activities included in the syllabus?
Answer
B. to make the learner understand the topic well
16
What is NOT possible to achieve in the case of field experiments?
Answer
C. control of extraneous variables
17
'Men are superior to women in their health status after 40 years' is an example of
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A. directional hypothesis
18
The ethical principle displayed while sharing data, results, ideas or tools of one's research is
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C. openness
19
What is one tailed test of significance?
Answer
D. testing directional hypothesis
20
A representative sample is
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B. a sample that accurately reflects the entire population
21
Which Amendment Act has created the 9th Schedule of the Indian Constitution?
Answer
A. The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951
22
Who decides the nature of a Bill in Indian Union?
Answer
C. The Speaker of Lok Sabha
23
According to the Indian Constitution, the 'Residuary Power of Legislation' belongs to
Answer
B. The Parliament
24
Impeachment proceedings against the President of India can be initiated against the charge of -----------?
Answer
B. Violation of the Indian Constitution
25
The constitutional provisions described as the 'heart and soul of the Constitution' by Dr. B R Ambedkar is .....................?
Answer
D. Article 32
26
Who was the first Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission?
Answer
B. Justice Ranganath Misra.
27
Which one of the following statutes provides for the establishment of a National Tribunal for the effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of fo resources?
Answer
A. The National Green Tribunal Act,2010.
28
If information sought under The Right to Information Act,2005 concerns the life or liberty of a person, it shall be supplied within .......................
Answer
C. 48 hours.
29
Which one of the following is a National mission on financial inclusion for ensuring access to various financial services to all households in the country? 2 of 7 06/23/2015 02:27 PM Home Page http://192.168.1.6/psc/modules/marklist/answer_sheet/pr...
Answer
A. PMJDY
30
The Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 deals with ......................................
Answer
D. All of the above.
31
What is the relationship between the Squire and the Knight in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales?
Answer
D. Son and father
32
Shakespeare's Sonnet number 129 is addressed to
Answer
C. A Dark Lady
33
What is the predominant feeling of Satan as reflected in (The Paradise Lost) the quoted lines? "Determined to advance into our room A creature formed of earth,..."
Answer
A. Man has usurped his place
34
How many years Faustus has before the Devil comes to claim him his own?
Answer
D. 24
35
Which one of the following is NOT a character in the 'Tempest' ?
Answer
B. Coriolanus
36
To which Scene in 'The Hamlet' the line "To be or not to be, that is the question" belong?
Answer
A. Act III Scene 1
37
"Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song" is extracted from:
Answer
C. Prothalamion
38
Whom did the Dutchess of Malfi secretly marry?
Answer
B. Antonio Bologna
39
Which of the following characters is the villain in 'Tom Jones' ?
Answer
A. Blifil
40
"What is the truth? Said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer" (Of Truth) The line is an example for:
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C. Aphoristic style
41
"Did he who made the Lamb make thee"? here "thee" refers to?
Answer
B. The Tiger
42
To whom "Dejection: An Ode" was originally addressed?
Answer
D. Sara Hutchinson
43
What does Wordsworth's line "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" reflect?
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44
Which of the following is NOT an essential theme of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' ?
Answer
A. Materialism
45
Which of the following is the prominent idea in the "Dover Beach" ?
Answer
C. Loss of faith
46
Which English society is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' ?
Answer
D. The upper class
47
What was the initial/original title of the "Pride and Prejudice" ?
Answer
B. First Impressions
48
What is the pen name of 'Mary Ann Evans' ?
Answer
A. George Eliot
49
Why did Heath Cliff slip away? Because:
Answer
D. Catherine refused to marry him
50
Who according to Charles Lamb (in the Dream Children) was the best dancer during her youth?
Answer
C. Mrs. Field
51
Who is Lil's husband in the poem The Waste Land ?
Answer
B. Albert
52
"It was my ---------- year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore ." Fill the blank .
Answer
D. Thirtieth
53
Identify the writer of the following : "And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignt
Answer
D. Virginia Woolf
54
Who acts as chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
Answer
A. Canterbury Women
55
Pygmalion fell in love with -------
Answer
C. A statue carved by him
56
The clothes that the priest brings to Maurya's house are from the body of ------
Answer
D. Michael
57
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named ------"
Answer
C. baby tuckoo
58
Who is the owner of the factory where Paul Morel works?
Answer
D. Thomas Jordan
59
The twins in the Lord of the Flies are together known as
Answer
A. Samneric
60
Which year did Doris Lessing win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer
A. 2007
61
The key textbook of the emotional theory of Rasa.
Answer
D. Natyashastra
62
According to Aristotle, Hamartia is ______.
Answer
B. a personal error in a protagonist's personality that brings about his tragic downfall
63
"Lyrical Ballads" was published with a preface in the year ______.
Answer
D. 1800
64
In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" Eliot describes the process of poetic creation in terms of an analogy of ______.
Answer
C. a chemical reaction
65
"Archetype" means ______.
Answer
A. an original idea or model on which something is patterned
66
Jacques Derrida's lecture "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" heralded the beginning of ______.
Answer
C. Post-structuralism
67
The second phase in the history of women's literature as discussed by Elaine Showalter in her essay "Towards a Feminist Poetics."
Answer
A. The Feminist phase
68
Michael Foucault's essay discussing the notion of the 'author'.
Answer
B. What Is an Author?
69
Lacan's concept of the "mirror stage" is related to ______.
Answer
D. a critical stage in the development of individuality during a child's growth
70
The author of the book "Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature".
Answer
A. Sharankumar Limbala
71
English language is derived from ______.
Answer
A. West Germanic
72
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Answer
C. Ablaut
73
The author of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People".
Answer
D. Bede
74
The Norman conquest of England began with the invasion of England by ______ in 1066.
Answer
C. William the Conqueror
75
King James' Authorized version of the Bible was published in the year ______.
Answer
B. 1611
76
The basic theoretical unit of distinctive sound in the description of speech.
Answer
A. phoneme
77
The linguistic term for the study of the ways in which words combine into such units as phrase, clause, and sentence.
Answer
B. syntax
78
A seminal linguistic work of twentieth century by Ferdinand de Saussure published posthumously in 1916.
Answer
C. Course in General Linguistics
79
In T.G. Grammar an abstract underlying structure that incorporates all the syntactic information required for the interpretation of a given sentence.
Answer
A. deep structure
80
A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
Answer
D. register
81
Why did the poet in the poem "Casurina Tree" look upon the casurina tree with love and longing?
Answer
D. None of the above
82
In the poem "Introduction" by Kamala Das, the speaker ________
Answer
Question Cancelled
83
What was the speaker as a nascent poet translating in Walt Whitman's poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"?
Answer
D. The song of the bird
84
Who does the speaker in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" imagine her father to be?
Answer
B. A Nazi
85
According to B R Ambedkar the caste system _________
Answer
D. Does not promote an egalitarian society
86
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in ______
Answer
C. 1981
87
The protagonist of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones is ____
Answer
B. A usurper of power in a Caribbean island
88
Ralph Ellison, author of "Invisible Man" was associated with _________
Answer
A. The Harlem Renaissance
89
Lalithambika Antharjanam was a contemporary of ______
Answer
A. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
90
The following is the protagonist of Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye:
Answer
B. Pecola
91
Who is the author of 'The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism' ?
Answer
B. Walter Benn Michaels
92
The 'New Historicists' attempt to situate and interpret 'Texts' in relation to:
Answer
C. The cultural system in which they were produced
93
Which of the following is a prominent feature of 'New Feminisms' ?
Answer
A. Its ideologies predominantly 'Gynocentric'
94
Who founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) ?
Answer
D. Richard Hoggart
95
What does 'Diaspora' (in the Biblical context) denote?
Answer
C. Mass exodus of the Jews
96
Who among the following is a 'Queer' critic?
Answer
C. Carol Vance
97
What is the most prominent feature of post-colonial literature?
Answer
A. A pre-occupation with the colonial experience from a Non-European point of view
98
Which of the following is NOT a feature of the literature of the 'Diaspora' ?
Answer
D. Pre occupation with the superior European life
99
What is the UK equivalent of the term 'Eco-criticism' ?
Answer
C. Green studies
100
What is denoted by the term 'Hyper-reality' in post-modernism?
Answer
A. Inability of consciousness to differentiate between reality and its simulation
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