| Post Name | HSST ENGLISH JUNIOR |
|---|---|
| Department | KHSE |
| Question Paper Code | 030/2015/OL |
| Category Code | 022/2015 |
| Date of Test | 27 November 2015 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
2014 Man Booker Prize was won by
Answer
A. Richard Flanagan
2
Name the freedom fighter who went to jail with her two month old baby due to the participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement?
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C. Kuttimalu Amma
3
"Atmavidya Sangham" was founded by....?
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D. Vagbhadananda
4
The Bollywood actor who has been appointed as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia?
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B. Aamir Khan
5
C V Kunhuraman was the founder of ..........?
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D. Kerala Kaumudi
6
Which day is recently declared by UN as ' International Yoga Day' ?
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A. June 21
7
The founder and editor of women's magazine 'Shrimati'?
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B. Anna Chandi
8
' Wandering in many worlds' is the autobiography of .............?
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C. V R Krishna Iyer
9
The work of G Sankara Kurup which won the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award (1961) and Kendra Sahitya Academy Award (1963) ?
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B. Vishwadarshanam
10
In which venue Rohit Sharma made the highest individual ODI score of 264 runs against Sri Lanka?
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D. Kolkota
11
A relationship in which a less experienced learner acquires knowledge and skills under guidance of an expert:
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B. Cognitive Apprenticeship
12
Which educationalist believed, " Psychic being within oneself to be the essence of his spiritual selves"
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B. Aurobindo
13
Process whereby children adopt external standards as their own is termed as
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A. Internalization
14
Testing used during instruction to help 'diagnosis' is
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B. Formative
15
Intensive study of one person or a situation is called
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B. Case study
16
The relationship between mean, median and mode is
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B. Mode = 3(Median) − 2(Mean)
17
Complete list of members of population from which sampling unit are selected is known as
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D. Sampling Frame
18
Two significant levels often used in social science research are
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B. 0.01 & 0.05
19
Clubbing new information into existing schema is called
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A. Assimilation
20
A child is unable to see the blackboard and often writes notes by looking into notebooks of nearby classmates what inference will you draw on child's difficulty
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C. child has a poor vision
21
What is the maximum period provided by the Constitution for President's rule in a State?
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C. 3 years.
22
Who appoints the Comptroller and Auditor General of India?
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A. President.
23
Which of the following statement is correct in respect of Union list provided in the Constitution?
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B. Central Government has exclusive powers on the subjects mentioned in the Union list.
24
Which one of the following is not mentioned in the preamble of the Indian Constitution?
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D. Sociologic.
25
What is the maximum age limit prescribed for Supreme Court Judges?
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C. 65.
26
Which is the authority that evaluates and monitors the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005?
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B. Central Employment Guarantee Council
27
The system for distribution of essential commodities to the ration card holders through fair price shops under National Food Security Act, 2013 is envisaged through........... ?
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C. Targeted Public Distribution System
28
Which among the following statement is incorrect with respect to 'The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005?
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D. The overall fact and circumstances of the case has nothing to do with determining the commission of domestic violence under the Act
29
Which among the following is not 'information' bound to be made available under the Right to Information Act, 2005?
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D. Information, the disclosure of which would cause a breach of privilege of the parliament
30
The World organ donation day is celebrated every year on
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A. 6th August
31
1) What is the name of the inn where Chaucer’s narrator meets the pilgrims?
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B. Tabard Inn
32
1) Prothalamion is a nuptial song on the occasion of the twin marriage of --------
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D. Lady Elizabeth and LadyKatherine
33
1) The rhyme scheme of Shakespearian sonnet ---------------
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C. abab cdcd efef gg
34
1) In which poem does this line occur “Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?”
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A. The Canonization
35
1) When was Paradise Lost published?
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D. 1667
36
1) In the poem McFlecknoe , Flecknoe, the poet is compared to -----
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A. Augustus Caesar
37
1) Identify the poem in which the following lines occur : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
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B. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
38
What is Hamlet’s hamertia?
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C. procrastination
39
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? Who is Hecuba mentioned in this monologue by a Shakespearean character?
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A. Priam's wife
40
Who speaks the epilogue in The School for Scandal?
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C. Lady Teazle
41
In "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" Wordsworth talks about _______
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D. Pre-natal existence
42
The speaker in "Ode to the West Wind" is considered to the author's _______
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B. persona
43
Whom does Ullysses refer to as 'a savage race' in Tennyson's poem "Ullysses"?
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C. The Greeks
44
The coast of which country does the poet see across the sea in Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach"?
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A. France
45
Hopkins' poem "The Windhover" is notable for its use of _______
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A. Sprung Rhythm
46
The title of Charles Lamb's essay "Dream Children" refers to _______
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D. Children the author saw in a dream
47
The heroine of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Ernest was named ________
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B. Gwendolen
48
Where was Oliver Twist the protagonist of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist born?
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C. In a workhouse
49
Wuthering Heights is a novel by ________
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D. Emily Bronte
50
The Mayor of Casterbridge like many of Hardy's novels and stories is set in ________
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A. The market town of Dorchester
51
Yeats' poem "Easter 1916" refers to _______
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C. The uprising of Irish freedom fighters on Easter, 1916.
52
Why is the poet sure that the unknown citizen in the poem "The Unknown Citizen" lived a happy life?
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B. Because we would have known if there had been anything wrong
53
What does Phillip Larkin mean by the expression 'Another church' in the poem "Church Going"?
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A. A church like any other
54
What according to the poet are the praying women in "In Santa Maria Del Popolo" incapable of?
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B. The grand gesture of the solitary man
55
Virginia Woolf considered the fiction of her contemporaries ________
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C. Only different from that of their predecessors
56
Which of the following notions does Bernard Shaw seem to support in Pygmalion?
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D. Correct pronunciation is necessary for social success
57
Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot was first published in ______
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D. French
58
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man can be described as _________
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C. A kunstlerroman
59
Graham Greene's Heart of the Matter is set in ________
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B. Sierra Leone
60
Allan Sillitoe, author of the novel The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner has been described as _________
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A. A proletarian fictionist
61
Who brought forth the 'Rasa-Dhwani Siddhanta' ?
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D. Abhinavagupta
62
Aristotle defined poetry as:
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B. Medium of imitation
63
Which of the following is a 'Vice of Style' opposed to the 'Sublime' according to Longinus?
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D. Affectation
64
Who is called 'The Father of English Criticism' by Dr. Johnson?
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A. John Dryden
65
Who stated that "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" ?
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D. Wordsworth
66
Arnold's 'Touchstone Method' is modelled on:
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C. Longinus 'Test of Poetic Greatness'
67
Which of the following movement was initiated with Derrida's paper 'The Structure, Sign and Play in the Human Sciences' ?
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D. Post-structuralism
68
What according to 'Elain Showalter' is the reason for the impasse that feminist criticism had reached in the 1970s
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A. The 'Male' character of 'Theory' itself
69
Which of the following is NOT one of the main points in Lacan's 'Insistence of the letter in the unconscious' ?
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B. Human self or soul transcends the limits of language
70
'Michel Foucault' elaborated upon the relationship between knowledge and power propounded by:
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D. Nietzsche
71
Syntactic Structures was published by
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B. Noam Chomsky
72
A simplified form of speech formed out of one or more existing languages used by people who have no other language in common is called ....
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A. Pidgins
73
The language variety unique to a single speaker of a language is called -----
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B. Idiolect
74
The King James Bible was first published in ------
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A. 1611
75
Grimm's law states the
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A. consonant shift
76
Ablaut signifies change in --------
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D. vowel
77
Minimalistic Program is a continuation of -----
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A. Generative Grammar
78
The focus of Sociolinguistics is
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A. The effect of the society on the language
79
Language was published by
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D. Leonard Bloomfield
80
Who spoke of England and America as two countries separated by a common language
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B. Bernard Shaw
81
What is the central theme of the verses in the 'Geetanjali' ?
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C. Quest for the divine and devotion
82
What is the name of the protagonist in Ellison's 'Invisible Man' ?
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A. Nameless
83
Why was Mian Abdulla (Midnight's Children) assassinated? Because/ of:
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B. His anti-partition stance
84
What is the new definition that 'Jaya' (Harvest) discovers for 'Winning' ?Winning by:
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D. Losing
85
Which of the following is NOT one of the passions of 'Benjamin Compson' (Sound and the Fury) ?
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B. Jason
86
The lines "I speak three languages, write in Two, dream in One" is a reference to the multilingualism of:
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B. Kamala Das
87
When did 'Sylvia Plath' attempt to join her dead daddy for the first time?
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C. At the age of 20
88
What made Robert Frost choose the 'Road not Taken'?
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A. His desire to make an impact with his life
89
What metal was used in the bullet that killed 'Brutus Jones' ?
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D. Silver
90
What does the 'Self-reliant' (Emerson's 'Self Reliance') man dislike?
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A. To travel
91
_______ is the author of Black Skins, White Masks
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C. Frantz Fanon
92
Deep Ecology is _________
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C. A movement or body of concepts that considers humans no more important than other species
93
The following is not generally associated with Queer Theory:
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D. Homi Bhabha
94
Trauma Theory links the experience of trauma to
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C. The evolutionary heritage of humans
95
The following is not a form of 'New Feminism':
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B. Eco-Feminism
96
The phrase "Historicity of texts and the textuality of history" was coined by _______
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A. Louis Montrose
97
The following is associated with Culture Studies:
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A. Stuart Hall
98
The following is not considered a Diasporic writer:
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C. Derek Walcott
99
_____ contributed some of the most important concepts and notions on the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century.
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D. Jurgen Habermas
100
Hyper-reality can be defined as __________
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B. The inability of consciousness to recognize between reality and simulations of reality
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