| Post Name | HSST English - KHSE |
|---|---|
| Question Paper Code | 078/2022 |
| Category Code | 297/2020, 567/2021, 728/2021, 730/2021 |
| Date of Test | 23 July 2022 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | OMR Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
What does the image of âthe widening gyreâ in the poem Second Coming by W. B. Yeats
signify ?
Answer
C. Each cycle of history
2
âThis frail vessel though emptiest again and again,
and ďŹllest it ever with fresh life.â
The âfrail vesselâ in this line from Verse 1 of Gitanjali refers to
Answer
B. Human body
3
To drive home the concept of âimpersonalityâ in art, Eliot uses the example of a gas
chamber into which hydrogen and sulphur dioxide are put in the presence of ďŹliated
Platinum.
Which of the above given statements are true ?
Answer
C. 1 and 2 only
4
F.S. Boas in his 1896 book, Shakespeare and his Predecessors, used the term
âproblem playsâ including the four plays of Shakespeare â Allâs Well that Ends Well,
Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida and Hamlet.
Which of the above given statements is/are true ?
Answer
C. 1, 3 and 4 only
5
âCanât this man with
Nimble ďŹngertips unleash
Nothing more alive than the
Skinâs lazy hungers ?â
These lines are taken from the poem __________ by Kamala Das.
Answer
D. The Freaks
6
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar referred to _______________ as âOne of the most aggressively
individualistic of the new poetsâ.
Answer
C. Kamala Das
7
Who is hinted as âA mugging Jew among the wolvesâ in the poem Background
Casually ?
Answer
C. Nissim Ezekiel
8
Which among the following entreaties is/are made by the poet to the world outside, in the
poem Canonization ?
1. To hold their tongues and let them love.
2. To engage in some productive endeavours.
3. To memorialize the lovers in verses.
4. To chide his palsy and gout.
Answer
Question Cancelled
9
Which of these statements regarding the essay Of Truth by Francis Bacon is/are
correct ?
1. Truth is the sovereign good of human nature.
2. A mixture of lie doth add pleasure.
3. It is heaven upon earth to have a manâs mind turn upon the poles of falsehood.
4. Mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver.
Answer
B. 1, 2 and 4 only
10
âParadise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets
to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than
a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look
elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions.â This harsh
barb on Milton occurs in
Answer
B. Life of Milton by Dr. Johnson
11
Which of the following are correctly matched with regard to the description of characters
in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer ?
1. The Knight a. Observes dainty tablemanners
2. The Pardoner b. Participated in the crusades
3. The Prioress c. Made pilgrimages to Jerusalem
4. The Wife of Bath d. Carries a bag full of fake relics
Answer
D. 1-âb,2-d,3-a,4-c
12
On top of which section of the manuscript of The Wasteland did Ezra Pound write, âOK.
OK from here on I thinkâ ?
Answer
D. âWhat the Thunder Saidâ
13
Which poem was quoted in full in Wordsworthâs Preface to Lyrical Ballads to cite the
worst example of then prevailing poetic diction, stating that only ďŹve lines of the poem
were worth keeping ?
Answer
A. Thomas Grayâs Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
14
âEnglish and my disciplines (linguistics, anthropology) give me my âouterâ forms â linguistic,
metrical, logical and other such ways of shaping experience, and my ďŹrst thirty years in
India, my frequent visits and ďŹeld trips, my personal and professional preoccupations
with Kannada, Tamil, the classics and Folklore give me my substance, my âinnerââ forms,
images and symbols.â
Who among the following Indian English poets has remarked thus about his poetry ?
Answer
D. A. K. Ramanujan
15
Which of the following statements is/are not true about the dramatic monologue, Ulysses
written by Tennyson ?
1. The poem is composed in Blank Verse.
2. It is one of the several poems, that Tennyson composed in response to the death of
his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
3. Tennyson based his two-sided view of Ulysses on Book XI of Homerâs Odyssey
and Canto XXVI of Danteâs Inferno.
4. Ulysses outlines his plans to abandon his dreary kingdom of Troy to his son
Telemachus.
Answer
D. 4 only
16
Given below are a few statements about William Shakespeare and his legacy.
1. Henry Vill was the play in progress while the Globe theatre burned down in 1613.
2. Shakespeare left an amount of 28 shillings and 8 pence in his will, each for his
actor friends Richard Burbage, John Heminges and Henry Condell.
3. The Astor Place Riot in Manhattan, US, in which more than 20 lost their lives
and hundreds left wounded was an outgrowth of rivalry between two celebrated
Shakespearean actors, Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready.
4. F.S. Boas in his 1896 book, Shakespeare and his Predecessors, used the term
âproblem playsâ including the four plays of Shakespeare â Allâs Well that Ends Well,
Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida and Hamlet.
Which of the above given statements is/are true ?
Answer
C. 1,3 and4only _
17
âBlake was endowed with a capacity for considerable understanding of human nature,
with a remarkable and original sense of language and the music of language, and a gift of
hallucinated vision.ââ Who among these poets made this observation on William Blake ?
Answer
B. T. S. Eliot
18
âThe Graveâs a ďŹne and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.ââ
Identify the poem.
Answer
D. Andrew Marvellâs To His Coy Mistress
19
In the novel, Utopia by Thomas More, the narrator speaks of âa stranger who seemed
past the ďŹower of his age, his face was tanned, he had a long beard and his cloak was
hanging carelessly about him so that, by his looks and habits, I concluded that he was a
seaman.â Who among the following is the character referred to in these lines ?
Answer
D. Raphael Hythloday
20
âAnd fare thee weel, my only Luve !
And fare thee weel awhile !
And I will come again, my Luve
Thoâ it were ten thousand mile.â
These are the closing lines of the poem
Answer
B. A Red, Red Rose
21
Which among the following statements about Coleridge and his poem Kubla Khan
is/are not true ?
1. Coleridge composed the poem Kubla Khan while he was retiring in a farmhouse
near Culbone, Somersetshire.
2. He wrote under the influence of âlaudanumâ, anopiate.
3. There is a reference to an Abyssinian Maid singing of Mount Tabor in her dulcimer.
4. The speaker of the poem speaks about the sacred river Alph, which ran through
âcaverns measureless to manâ.
Answer
Question Cancelled
22
In which of these poems, do the locations of the Oxford countryside such as the Berkshire
moors, Cumner hills, Bab-lock-hithe and Wychwood bowers feature ?
Answer
B. Arnoldâs The Scholar Gipsy
23
Which among these statements regarding Joseph Conradâs novella, The Heart of Darkness
is/are true ?
1. It was first published in 1899 in Blackwoodâs Edinburgh Magazine.
2. Chinua Achebe alleged Joseph Conrad to be a âthorough going racistâ for
dehumanizing the Africans in this work.
3. The two rivers, Thames and Nile are presented in the novel symbolising âcivilizationâ
and âbarbarismâ respectively.
4. Mr. Kurtz is presented as the narrator of the novel.
Answer
B. 1 and 2 only
24
My Fair Lady, the American musical ďŹlm released in 1964 was an adaptation of the play
________ by G.B. Shaw.
Answer
D. Pygmalion
25
Which of the following are correctly matched with regard to the themes of the Sonnets of
Shakespeare ?
1. Sonnet 1 a. True minds in love know that love never changes, but lasts
forever
2. Sonnet 18 b. When I call to mind the past, | grieve; but when | think of you
my grief ends
3. Sonnet 30 c. Beauty should procreate
4. Sonnet 116 d. My poetry turns you into an eternal summer in which you will
be forever beautiful
Answer
D. 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a
26
Salman Rushdieâs technique of magical realism in his novels is said to have been learned
from the Latin American writers such as
Answer
A. Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27
Which of the following statements regarding Drydenâs mock-heroic poem, Mac Flecknoe
is/are correct ?
1. The target of this satire is Richard Flecknoe, the prolific, untalented writer.
2. The phrase, âtrue-blue-protestant poetâ in the subtitle of the poem, hints at the
Whiggism of Thomas Shadwell.
3. Dryden presents the playwright Shadwell as the son and successor of Richard
Flecknoe.
4. The poem abounds in literary allusions to Roman legend and history, Aeneid,
Paradise Lost and the Bible.
Answer
D. 2,3 and 4
28
The original title of Daniel Defoeâs Robinson Crusoe published in 1719 is
Answer
C. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
29
Who among the following novelists described his/her own novels as âpictures of domestic
life in country villagesâ ?
Answer
C. Jane Austen
30
Which of the following statements regarding the poem Ode to the West Wind is/are
true ?
1. The poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near
Florence.
2. The stanzaic form of the poem consists of a set of four tercets closed by a couplet
rhyming with the middle line of the preceding tercet.
3. The terms âDestroyer and Preserverâ in the 14th jine refers to the Hindu Gods, Siva
and Vishnu respectively.
4. The âfierce Maenadâ in line No. 21 hints at a female worshipper who danced
frenziedly in the worship of Dionysus, the Greek God of wine and vegetation.
Answer
D. All are true
31
âThe lucid but eddying and pointless dialogue is often funny, and pratfalls and other modes
of slapstick are used to project the alienation and tragic anguish of human existence.â
About which of the following plays does M. H. Abrams make this observation ?
Answer
D. Samuel Beckettâs Waiting for Godot
32
Which among the following statements is/are not true regarding the novel Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen ?
1. The English ruling classis represented in the novel through the portrayal of three
land-owning families, Bertrams, Rushworths and Crawfords.
2. The Rushworths inhabit a âspacious modern-built houseâ, which must be built out of
the proceedings of the familyâs Antiguan Sugar plantations.
3. Most of the novelâs minor characters seen to have been constructed on the âSeven
Deadly Sinsâ principle.
4. The Crawfords are the wealthiest of the three families, with an ancient and
venerable Royalist history.
Answer
A. 2 and 4 only
33
Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from
the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said : somewhat alarmed
at his own temerity :
âPlease, Sir, I want some more.â
These lines are taken from the novel,
Answer
B. Oliver Twist
34
Following are statements relating to Eliot's essay âTradition and Individual Talentâ.
1. The essay was first published in 1919 and was later included in Eliotâs collection
The Sacred Wood in 1920.
2. âPoetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the
expression of personality, but an escape from personality.â This statement presents
a critique of Wordsworthâs definition of poetry in his âPrefaceâ.
3. To drive home the concept of âimpersonalityâ in art, Eliot uses the example of a gas
chamber into which hydrogen and sulphur dioxide are put in the presence of filiated
Platinum.
Which of the above given statements are true ?
Answer
C. 1 and 2 only
35
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce was ďŹrst serialised in
Answer
D. âThe Egoistâ
36
âA serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognised, and robed as destinies . . .â
What does Philip Larkin mean by âa serious houseâ ?
Answer
B. The church
37
Assertion (A) : The poem The Thought Fox is about the animal fox and also about the
process of poetic composition.
Reason (R) : In the poem, the fox functions as a metaphor of poetic creation.
A) Both
Answer
A. and
38
âThe poem is spoken by a girl with an Electra complex. The father died while she thought
he was God. Her case is complicated by the fact that her father was also a Nazi and her
mother very possibly part Jewish. In the daughter the two strains marry and paralyze
each other. She has to act out the awful little allegory once over before she is free of it.â
This is what the poet said about the poem. Identify the poem and the poet.
Answer
D. Daddy by Sylvia Plath
39
In which of the following novels does Sophy Fevvers, a six-foot-two Cockney trapeze artist,
who claims to be hatched from an egg and grown wings on reaching puberty, appear ?
Answer
A. Angela Carterâs Nights At The Circus
40
Born in the year 1937, in Mussoorie, India, as the daughter of a Bengali father and a
German mother, educated in India, who lives in the United States of America, a fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, confesses
that âshe feels about India as an Indianâ, whereas she thinks about it âas an outsiderâ.
Identify this Indian writer in English.
Answer
B. Anita Desai
41
In Whitmanâs poem, âOut of the Cradle Endlessly Rockingâ, __________ is shown as the
one lesson a child must learn. What is it ?
Answer
C. Death
42
In Edgar Allen Poeâs poem The Raven, what is the Ravenâs response to the speaker ?
Answer
D. Nevermore
43
According to the speaker in Maya Angelouâs poem Phenomenal Woman, where does her
real beauty come from ?
Answer
A. Her self conďŹdence
44
What is the colour of the throne in Emperor Jones ?
Answer
Question Cancelled
45
Which symbol represents reality in The Glass Menagerie ?
Answer
C. The picture of father
46
When was Emersonâs essay Self Reliance published ?
Answer
C. 1841
47
âA small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.â Whose words are these ?
Answer
A. Linda Loman
48
Arrange the following novels in the chronological order :
1. The Old Man and the Sea
2. Moby Dick
3. The Scarlet Letter
4. The Bluest Eye
Answer
D. 3,2,1,4
49
What do the lions symbolize in The Old Man and the Sea ?
Answer
C. Lost youth
50
What does the title The Bluest Eye suggest ?
Answer
C. Whiteness
51
Which of the following does not belong to the Germanic language group ?
Answer
C. Czech
52
Which of these ďŹnds out how a certain set of people use language at a given time ?
Answer
C. Synchronic Linguistics
53
When was Course in General Linguistics published ?
Answer
A. 1916
54
______________ is an abstract representation that identiďŹes the ways a sentence can
be analyzed and interpreted.
Answer
B. Deep structure
55
Choose the most suitable answer that identiďŹes the metaphor in the sentence :
Daisyâs brother was a rug rat
Answer
B. Daisyâs brother is a little boy
56
The main aim of Communicative Language Teaching is to
Answer
A. Provide communicative competence to learners
57
The Grammar Translation Method
Answer
C. Has its major focus on reading and writing
58
Which of these types of reinforcement are inďŹuential in observational learning ?
Answer
D. All of these
59
____________ is a type of memory circuitry that holds a computerâs start-up routine.
Answer
B. ROM
60
Remedial classes play an important role for
Answer
C. Weak students
61
Who says âPoets are the unacknowledged legislator of the worldâ ?
Answer
A. Shelley
62
In whose opinion âPoetry is the most highly organized form of intellectual activityâ ?
Answer
A. T. S. Eliot
63
_____________ is a situation or event designed by the poet which symbolizes or objectiďŹes
a particular emotion to evoke the same emotion in the reader.
Answer
C. Objective correlative
64
Which of the following critics has most elaborately discussed the concept of
imagination ?
Answer
D. S. T. Coleridge
65
Who wrote Principles of Literary Criticism ?
Answer
A. I. A. Richards
66
Which of the following suggests Theodor Adornoâs idea on the âculture industryâ ?
Answer
D. Both A and B
67
Stuart Hall was inspired by a text written by Antonio Gramsci. What was it called ?
Answer
Question Cancelled
68
Judith Butler argues that gender should be seen as a human attribute that is
Answer
D. Fluid and can change based on a given context
69
Which of the following are regarded as the common conventions of postmodern literary
writing ?
Answer
D. MetaďŹction and intertextuality
70
Language, according to Postmodernism, is
Answer
A. A means for describing objective reality
71
Which is a statistical technique used to control extraneous variable in Experimental
Research ?
Answer
C. ANCOVA
72
Cohort studies are related with
Answer
A. Longitudinal survey research design
73
Grounded theory approach in research utilises
Answer
A. Inductive method
74
In hypotheses testing, Type I error is a
Answer
B. False positive conclusion
75
Cronbachâs Alpha is a
Answer
A. Reliability index
76
Metacgintion in learning is
i. Learning how to learn
ii. Cognitions about cognitions
iii. Regulating oneâs own cognitive processes
Answer
D. i, ii and iii
77
Conducting an internal test to know the progress of learning is an example for
Answer
C. Assessment for learning
78
Action verb in a learning outcome indicates
Answer
C. Learning process
79
An alternative curriculum model put forward by a group of teachers dissatisďŹed with
existing curriculum
Answer
D. Demonstration model of curriculum
80
A teaching intervention strategy in which students alternate between the role of tutor and
tutee
Answer
B. Reciprocal peer tutoring
81
The power of increasing the number of judges in the Supreme Court of India is vested in
Answer
A. The Parliament of India
82
Which Articles of Indian Constitution deal with Right to Equality ?
Answer
C. Article 14 and Article 15 and Article 16
83
Who was the longest serving Prime Minister of India ?
Answer
C. Jawaharlal Nehru
84
Which is the Largest Parliament Committee ?
Answer
B. The Committee on Estimates
85
Among the following, which Bill must be passed by each house of the Indian Parliament
Separately by a special majority ?
Answer
A. Constitution Amendment Bill
86
Which Article of the Indian Constitution empowered Indian Parliament to establish new
States ?
Answer
A. Article 2
87
The National Food Security Act contains
Answer
B. 4 Schedules and 13 Chapters
88
According to Food Security Act 2013, Food Security means
Answer
C. Supply of the entitled quantity of food grains and meal
89
The term of a State Food Commission member
Answer
C. 5 years
90
The Environment Protection Act of Indian Parliament came in to force on
Answer
A. 19th November 1986
91
Consider the following statements about Pandit Karuppan.
1. A member of Cochin Legislative Council.
2. Worked as the Assistant Protector of Depressed Classes.
3. Worked as Superintendent of Vernacular Education in Cochin.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Answer
D. 1,2 and3
92
Sahodaran Ayyappan started a newspaper called âVelakkaranâ for the labourers at
Answer
B. Alapuzha
93
Who wrote the work âEnte Sreekovilâ ?
Answer
A. C. V. Kunjuraman
94
A. G. Velayudhan, a freedom ďŹghter died during which of the following struggle ?
Answer
C. Paliyam Satyagraha
95
Consider the following pairs :
Journal/Newspaper Founder
1. Mitavadi Moorkoth Kumaran
2. Dharma poshini Velukutty Arayan
3. Cheramar Dootan Poykayil Yohannan
4. Yajamanan Vaghbhatananda
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched ?
Answer
B. 1,2 and 4
96
Which of the following is not related to space tourism ?
Answer
A. BCD Travel
97
Which of the following places in India included the UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
Answer
C. Dholavira
98
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) countries include
Answer
D. US, India, Japan, Australia
99
Who wrote the Article âWhy I am an Atheistâ ?
Answer
B. Bhagath Singh
100
Olympics 2028 will be held in
Answer
A. Los Angeles
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