| Post Name | HSST ENGLISH - NCA - ST |
|---|---|
| Department | KHSE |
| Question Paper Code | 078/2016/OL |
| Category Code | 060/2016 |
| Date of Test | 14 November 2016 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
Founder of Prathyashareksha Daiva Sabha (PRDS)?
Answer
A. Poilayil Yohannan
2
Who presided over the meeting of Namboodhiri Youth wing held at Talipparambu in 1931?
Answer
D. Parvathi Nenmini Mangalam
3
The Malayalee woman who attended the International Women's conference held at Copenhagen in 1949?
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B. Ammu Swaminthan
4
Author of the work 'Jathikkumi' ?
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C. Pandit KP Karuppan
5
Leader of the Malayalee Memmorial?
Answer
D. Barister G P Pillai
6
Which day is observed as Human Rights Day?
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A. December 10
7
'Operation Protective Edge' is the name of which country's controversial military action launched on its neighbourhood?
Answer
D. Israel
8
Which Indian legendary actor's ancestral home in Peshawar(Pakistan) has recently been declared as a national heritage?
Answer
B. Dileep Kumar
9
Who is the present United Nations Deputy Secretary General?
Answer
D. Jan Eliassan
10
With which game is Thomas Cup associated?
Answer
B. Badminton
11
Which of the following is an essential requirement for a language teacher?
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D. Acquire contextual knowledge
12
A language teacher provide feedback to learners in order to
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A. encourage them for learning
13
Questions like, “What are the specific research questions? , How will validity and reliability be addressed?” etc. are related to
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C. Research design
14
To become a professional language teacher, a teacher should conduct
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A. feedback analysis
15
Nature of language development in children over time, can be studied using
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A. Cohort studies
16
---------------- is the best method of instruction to teach poster preparation to novice learners
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B. Demonstration
17
Which formatting style manual is generally used for preparing manuscripts in English Language ?
Answer
D. MLA style manual
18
Which of the following serves the optimum purpose of evaluation?
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C. providing constructive comments
19
Impact factor of a journal is a measure of
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B. Number of Citations
20
Take care to ensure that relevant authorities are informed and permission and approval have been obtained for administration of any research tool or technique is associated with
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B. Research ethics
21
1. ‘Adult suffrage’ means
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A. All adults have right to vote
22
1 Constituent Assembly adopted the constitution on
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B. 26th Nov 1949
23
1 Which among the following is most appropriate to indicates the nature of Indian Constitution
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C. Federal with unitary Tendency
24
1. ………………… is a criterion to decide ‘Minority’ status.
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D. Language
25
1. ………………administers oath of office to Governor
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D. Chief Justice of the High Court
26
1. Child Welfare Committees (CWC) are established under ……………………
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A. Juvenile Justice Act
27
1. National Green Tribunal is established in the year ……..
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C. 2010
28
1. Central Information Commission or State Information Commission may impose penalty on a Public Information Officer (PIO) who refused to act as per the requirement of Right to Information Act. What is the maximum penalty that can be imposed on such a PIO?
Answer
D. Rs. 25,000/-
29
1. Time Limit Prescribed Under Right to Service Act for issuance of Income Certificate from Village Office or Taluk Office is …..
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B. Six Days
30
1. …………………. in every eligible household, shall be head of the household for the purpose of issue of ration cards Under the National Food Security Act, 2013.
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C. Eldest woman who is not less than 18 years of age
31
The companion poem to Spenser's "Prothalamion."
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B. Epithalamion
32
In which of these plays does death, decay and disease appear as the central motif?
Answer
D. Hamlet
33
Identify the figure of speech in the line "No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;"
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A. hyperbole
34
Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in the year ______
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C. 1609
35
Bosola is a character in the play ______
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A. The Duchess of Malfi
36
The mythological character to whom Dr Faustus is compared to in the prologue to Marlowe's play "Dr Faustus."
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D. Icarus
37
Who applied the epithet "Augustan" for the fist time?
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C. Dr Samuel Johnson
38
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of ______ tales narrated by a group of pilgrims.
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B. 24
39
Who defined the novel as "a comic epic in prose"?
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C. Henry Fielding
40
What happens to Adan and Eve immediately after they eat the forbidden fruit in Milton's "Paradise Lost" Book IX?
Answer
B. they are consumed by lust
41
The Romantic poet noted for the use of a persistent and sustained symbolism in his poetry.
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C. William Blake
42
Which poem of Keats has the line, "For-ever wilt thou love, and she be fair"?
Answer
B. Ode on a Grecian Urn
43
The leading figure among the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists.
Answer
B. D. G. Rossetti
44
The name of Algernon's imaginary invalid friend in "The Importance of Being Earnest."
Answer
A. Bunbury
45
Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist" was published in the year ______.
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C. 1838
46
J. S. Mill's "The Subjugation of Women" was influenced by the ______ philosophy.
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D. Utilitarian
47
G. M. Hopkins' "The Windhover" is a ______.
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A. Petrarchan sonnet
48
Charles Lamb published his letters and essays under the pseudonym Elia in ______.
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D. The London Magazine
49
The literal meaning of the word "wuthering."
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D. turbulent weather
50
Tennyson's poem "Ulysses" expresses ______.
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A. Victorian optimism
51
Who is the Irish revolutionary referred to in the lines "This man had kept a school And rode our winged horse" ?
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C. Patrick Pearse
52
What is Madam Sosostris's profession in the 'Waste Land' ?
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D. Fortune tellling
53
Who is the author of 'From Ritual to Romance' ?
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B. Jessie Weston
54
Which of the following is NOT true of Virgina Woolf's 'To The Light House' ?
Answer
B. The mood at the end of the novel is one of pessimism and defeat
55
Which of the following character in 'Waiting for Godot' claims to have been a poet?
Answer
A. Vladimir
56
The Fourth Tempter in Eliot's play 'Murder in the cathedral' appeals to (The Arch Bishop's) :
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D. Spiritual pride
57
The 'Hawk' in Hughes' 'Hawk Roosting' is a symbol of:
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B. A dictator
58
The novel 'A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man' is written using technique of:
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C. Stream of consciousness
59
Which of the following is NOT true of 'Sons and Lovers' ?
Answer
D. Paul meets with tragic end at the end of the novel
60
What is the social class of Smith in Alan Sillitoe's 'The loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner' ?
Answer
B. The under-privileged working class
61
Mimesis means------
Answer
C. Imitation
62
Dr Johnson defended
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C. Shakespeare's mixing of comic and tragic genres
63
Stephen Gosson wrote
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A. School of Abuse
64
Lyrical Ballads was first published in
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A. 1798
65
Which work discusses the concept of decorum?
Answer
B. Ars Poetica
66
Who said "Without poetry our science will appear incomplete."
Answer
C. Matthew Arnold
67
"Poetry is not a turning lose of -----"
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B. emotion
68
" His poetry would not appear to promise many examples of the language of paradox. He usually prefers the direct attack . He insists on simplicity, he distrusts whatever seems sophistical." the above quote is from "The Language of Paradox" by Cleant Brooks. Identify the poet mentioned here
Answer
D. Wordsworth
69
Anatomy of Criticsm was written by
Answer
A. Northrop Frye
70
Who among the following is a New Critic
Answer
C. Allen Tate
71
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles were written in the ______ dialect
Answer
C. Wessex
72
The following change occured in the transition from Old English to Middle English:
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B. The language became less inflected
73
The Modern English period is generally considered to have begun from ______
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A. 1500 A D
74
When a word loses its pejorative sense, it is called ________
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B. Amelioration
75
The dialect spoken by working class people in the east part of London is called _____
Answer
C. Cockney
76
Words in English will have either primary or secondary stress on _______
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D. The first or the second syllable
77
Chomsky's concept about structural properties common to all languages is called ________
Answer
C. Universal Grammar
78
Transformational Generative Grammar is so called because _______
Answer
B. It accounts for the transformations of sentences and generates sentences from given patterns
79
The variety of language used in particular discourses or professions is called a ______
Answer
A. Register
80
The rule which accounts for the presence and pronunciation of the past tense morpheme in English is called a __________ rule
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D. morphophonemic
81
Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year
Answer
C. 1913
82
Who said "The best poet waits for words."
Answer
A. Nissim Ezekiel
83
" Blow!Blow!Blow! Blow up sea-wind along Paumanok's shore; I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me " identify the poem
Answer
C. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
84
Name of the native chief in Emperor Jones is ------
Answer
D. Lem
85
Who said this in The Glass Menagerie "All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be."
Answer
A. Amanda
86
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes.One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune." The above quote is from ---
Answer
C. The Sound and the Fury
87
Pecola Breedlove is repeatedly called ---- by nearly everyone in her life.
Answer
B. ugly
88
Who said "Envy is ignorance , Imitation is Suicide" ?
Answer
B. Emerson
89
Who among the following is not a playwright?
Answer
D. Amit Chaudhuri
90
Judith Wright is from
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A. Australia
91
Hetronormativity asserts
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B. Sexual relationship between man and woman
92
Occident denotes
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B. Countries of the West
93
---------- is the cultural logic of late capitalism
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A. Postmodernism
94
Who said, "If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed hetrosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that hetrosexuality issues form a disappointed homosexuality?"
Answer
C. Judith Butler
95
Who is the author of the essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Answer
D. Gayatri Spivak
96
Historiographic metafiction is a term coined by
Answer
A. Linda Hutcheon
97
The Location of Culture by Homi K. Baba deals with the theoretical development of
Answer
D. Hybridity
98
Humour that leads to horror is called
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B. black humour
99
Desirable Daughters is a novel written by
Answer
C. Bharathi Mukerjee
100
Which postmodern writer used the theory of entropy in his novels?
Answer
B. Thomas Pynchon
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