| Post Name | HSST ENGLISH - JUNIOR - SR FOR SC/ST |
|---|---|
| Department | KHSE |
| Question Paper Code | 032/2016/OL |
| Category Code | 377/2015 |
| Date of Test | 11 March 2016 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
In the year 1856, Basel Mission started the first English Medium School in Malabar at which place ?
Answer
A. Thalaserry
2
Sivayogi Vilasom, the Monthly Journal was founded by :
Answer
B. Vagbhadananda
3
Uttara Rama Charitham translated into Malayalam by :
Answer
A. Chathu Kutty Mannadiyar
4
'In the cause of the people' is the Autobiography of :
Answer
C. A.K. Gopalan
5
In which year Thakazhy's Novel 'Kayar' got Jnanapeeth Award ?
Answer
B. 1984
6
Which date is observed as Telangana Foundation Day ?
Answer
C. 2nd June
7
Which one of the following is a system developed by ISRO to provide navigational support to Indian Railway ?
Answer
C. GAGAN
8
Who has been appointed as the Secretary of the Department of Administrative reforms in India ?
Answer
B. Devendra Chaudary
9
Who among the following received Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award 2015 ?
Answer
A. MYS Prasad
10
Which country is venue for the first ever Asian Youth Athletic Championship - 2015 ?
Answer
D. Qatar
11
Research studies that use 'narratives' to describe their observations are called :
Answer
D. Qualitative research
12
In teaching, the skill of 'Set Induction' means :
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A. To introduce the topic in an appropriate way
13
Which of the following is a non-probability sampling ?
Answer
B. Quota sampling
14
Teachers primary responsibility lies in :
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D. Planning educational experiences
15
Generalization is the process of :
Answer
D. Application of the findings
16
Which is the basis of your priority for teaching profession ?
Answer
D. Opportunity to work for children
17
'Experimentation' in research is :
Answer
C. Controlled observation
18
'Anything can be taught to any child at any stage of development in an intellectually honest way' is a gist of the statement made by :
Answer
B. Jerome S. Bruner
19
Internal Criticism in historical research is for evaluating :
Answer
B. Content
20
Which of the roles listed below is not relevant to the parent-teacher association ?
Answer
D. Evaluation of scholastic attainment of pupils
21
The Directive Principles of State Policy was adopted in the Indian Constitution from :
Answer
D. Ireland
22
Which Amendment was challenged in Kesavananda Bharati case ?
Answer
A. 24th
23
The principle of Res-judicata is not applied in the writ of :
Answer
A. Habeas Corpus
24
The right to privacy is protected under which Article of the Constitution of India ?
Answer
D. Article 21
25
The National Food Security Act came into force on :
Answer
C. 5th July 2013
26
An authority need not disclose information under S.8 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 if :
Answer
B. it affects the process of investigation
27
The Committee that should be constituted by every employer of a workplace under S.4 of the Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act is :
Answer
D. Internal Complaints Committee
28
Agenda 21 is an outcome of __________ .
Answer
A. Rio Earth Summit 1992
29
Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the right to work is __________ .
Answer
B. Legal right
30
The contingency fund in a state is operated by __________ .
Answer
C. Governor
31
In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer presents the Wife of Bath as a depiction of __________ .
Answer
D. Chastity
32
Which text by Antonio Gramsci inspired Stuart Hall ?
Answer
A. The Prison Diaries
33
Hester wore the 'scarlet letter' as :
Answer
C. A Mark of Sexual Transgression
34
What according to Coleridge is "essentially vital" and struggles "to idealize and unify" ?
Answer
A. Secondary Imagination
35
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
Answer
C. Acrostic
36
"Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways", are the words of the Chorus in which play ?
Answer
D. Murder in the Cathedral
37
What is the theme of "The Blessed Damozel" ?
Answer
B. Undying Love
38
Name the Shakespearean play with an epilogue :
Answer
D. The Tempest
39
According to Edward Said, 'the orient' is portrayed in Western novels, media and art work as __________ .
Answer
D. Lost in the past, prone to despotic rule and plagued by 'odd' cultural traditions
40
What did Sophia leave for Tom at the inn at Upton ?
Answer
B. Her muff
41
The subplot of Hayavadana is centred around __________ .
Answer
A. The man with the horse's head
42
"Panopticism" is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by :
Answer
C. Michel Foucault
43
When Act I of Waiting for Godot opens, Estragon is :
Answer
B. Trying to pull his boot off
44
The idea that people are weighed down by the roles they play is introduced by William Wordsworth in Immortality Ode, based on the concept of __________ .
Answer
A. Theatrum mundi
45
Who was sent by Polonius to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
Answer
C. Reynaldo
46
Who termed the present environmental crisis as a crisis of our imagination ?
Answer
B. Henry Thoreau
47
During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from __________ .
Answer
C. Latin and French
48
Wordsworth's primary concern in the Lyrical Ballads was __________ .
Answer
A. the language of poetry
49
What aspect of the main character is mirrored in the structure of The Golden Note Book ?
Answer
D. The complexity of her life
50
According to Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, what is the essence of romance ?
Answer
C. Uncertainty
51
What is meant by 'language transfer' ?
Answer
C. The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred haphazardly during Second language acquisition from any other language accessed by the learner
52
What is considered as the central principle of literary criticism in Sanskrit Literature ?
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D. Vyanjana
53
Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ?
Answer
B. Uriel
54
The Grecian Urn is called "cold pastoral" because :
Answer
D. all of these
55
In which section of The Waste Land does Tiresias appear ?
Answer
C. The Fire Sermon
56
"Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful". Whose words are these ?
Answer
A. Samuel Johnson
57
The term for describing someone's death as "someone is no more" or that "someone has breathed his/her last" is __________ .
Answer
D. Euphemism
58
What does Noam Chomsky's theory of language development emphasize ?
Answer
C. Innate structures and biological mechanisms
59
Shelly used which stanza form in "Ode to the West Wind" ?
Answer
B. Terza Rima
60
From which poem is the line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" taken from ?
Answer
C. The Second Coming
61
The term 'Peripeteia' means __________ .
Answer
C. Fluctuations occurring in the fortunes of the hero
62
Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutus Jones in Emperor Jones ?
Answer
A. Lem
63
'Spenser writ no language'. Who said this ?
Answer
C. Ben Jonson
64
The theme of "Dejection : An Ode" is :
Answer
B. loss of poetic imagination
65
The poem in which Yeats uses the famous "stone metaphor" is __________ .
Answer
D. Eastern 1916
66
In which essay did Matthew Arnold regarded poetry as "a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty" ?
Answer
C. The Study of Poetry
67
Who in "My Last Duchess" is said to have made the Duchess' painting ?
Answer
B. Fra Pandolf
68
What poison did Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father to kill him ?
Answer
A. Hebenon
69
What was the original title of Pride and Prejudice ?
Answer
C. 'First Impressions'
70
Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners' ?
Answer
B. T.S. Eliot
71
What are the two levels of language referred to by the term 'duality' ?
Answer
C. Sound and Meaning
72
Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?
Answer
D. Walt Whitman
73
In "Archetypes of Literature" Northrope Frye equates 'autumn' to __________ .
Answer
B. Tragedy
74
What does Michael do for a living in The Mayor of Casterbridge ?
Answer
D. A hay-trusser
75
"Ecriture" means __________ .
Answer
B. Writing
76
The author of Nation and Narration is :
Answer
D. Homi Bhabha
77
__________ refers to word formation.
Answer
A. Morphology
78
Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?
Answer
B. Monique Wittig
79
What is "the beast" in Lord of the Flies ?
Answer
C. The parachutist
80
In which figure of speech is there a play on the various meanings of a word ?
Answer
D. Pun
81
The essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" was written by __________ .
Answer
A. Adrienne Rich
82
"The pitfalls of national consciousness" is an essay by __________ .
Answer
C. Frantz Fanon
83
Who defined Postmodern as "incredulity towards metanarratives" ?
Answer
D. Jean-Francois Lyotard
84
In his study of metaphor and metonymy, Roman Jakobson borrowed Saussure's "syntagm versus paradigm" which stands for __________ and __________ respectively.
Answer
C. Selection and Combination
85
Which of the following poets has written a poem on a tree in their garden house at Baugmaree ?
Answer
B. Toru Dutt
86
Who supports Women's Rights in Sons and Lovers ?
Answer
A. Mrs. Morel
87
For the Elizabethan audience, the Duchess of Malfi marrying her steward, Antonio, was a triple offence. Which of the following is not one ?
Answer
B. She married on her own outside the Church
88
Where does young Catherine leave Thrushcross Grange for the first time to ?
Answer
C. The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
89
How does John Donne describe the death of virtuous people in "A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning" ?
Answer
B. Silent
90
What was the preliminary version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man known as ?
Answer
A. Stephen Hero
91
Who is the author of the two major works An Introduction to Language and Language ?
Answer
A. Leonard Bloomfield
92
Where does The Glass Menagerie take place ?
Answer
D. St. Louis
93
The meaning of the term 'episteme' is __________ .
Answer
A. Knowledge
94
Which of the following is not a form of new Historicist criticism ?
Answer
C. Poststructural recovery of authorial intent
95
According to Ralph Emerson, what do great works of art teach us ?
Answer
D. Obey your spontaneous impression
96
Who called Francis Bacon, "the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind" ?
Answer
C. Alexander Pope
97
Whom does "an embarrassed peacock, quite unused to its plumes" refer to ?
Answer
D. Emily Dickinson
98
What does Caroline see her youngest son's affliction as in The Sound and the Fury ?
Answer
D. As a curse on the family
99
The period in The Bluest Eye corresponds to __________ .
Answer
B. World War II and the Nazi regime's ideas of beauty
100
The winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014 is __________ .
Answer
B. Patrick Modiano
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