| Post Name | HSST - ENGLISH |
|---|---|
| Department | HSE |
| Question Paper Code | 035/2018 |
| Date of Test | 28 February 2018 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | OMR Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
The C.M.S Missionary who propagated the idea of primary education in Alleppey
Answer
C. Thomas Norton
2
The event which led to the Temple Entry Proclamation by the Kochi Raja in 1947 - 48
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B. Paliyam Satyagraha
3
The autobiography âAtmakathaâ was written by
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D. Anna Chandy
4
The Social reformer who adopted the method of âMisrabhojanamâ to fight against the evils of caste system
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A. Sahodara Ayyappan
5
Kerala Sahitya Charitram was his monumental work published in Five volumes after his death
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B. Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer
6
One of the potential sites for Biosphere Reserves selected by the Ministry of Forests and Environment in India
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C. Kovalam Beach
7
The Classical Japanese dance drama
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B. Kabuki
8
The largest inland body of water in the world
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D. Caspian Sea
9
The present U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres was the former prime minister of
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B. Portugal
10
The winner of the I.B.S.F world Billards championship held at Doha
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C. Pankaj Advani
11
Which of the following is not regarded as a salient feature of Indian constitution ?
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C. Dual Citizenship
12
The term âintegrityâ in the preamble of Indian Constitution was inserted by the
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D. 42nd Amendment Act
13
Which of the following statement is false regarding Emergency Provisions in Indian Constitution ?
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C. The proclamation of emergency is not subjected to judicial review
14
Which of the following is not regarded as an office of profit for the election of the President of India ?
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D. None of the above
15
âNo person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against him.â This right is provided in
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B. Article 20 of the Indian Constitution
16
Who among the following is not a member of the committee for the appointment of the Chief Information Commissioner under the Right to Information Act, 2005 ?
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C. The Speaker of Lok Sabha
17
The officer appointed by the state government under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is called
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B. Protection Officer
18
An individual is considered as âchildâ under the Protection of Child from Sexual Offence Act, 2012, if he or she is below the age of
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D. 18
19
According to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 the state government shall make schemes for providing employment for not less than _________ days to every household in the rural area in a financial year
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B. 100 days
20
Which one of the following is not a salient feature of the National Food Security Act, 2013 ?
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D. Any Public Servant or authority found guilty of not implementing the provisions of this Act will get a punishment of 6 months imprisonment and fine up to âč1000
21
âA scaled down teaching encounter in class, size and timeâ known as
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C. Micro Teaching
22
Which one of the following does not come under Affective domain ?
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B. Creating
23
Number the following correctly on the basis of direct concrete experience to the most indirect abstract experience. (i) Contrived experience (ii) Motion pictures (iii) Field trips (iv) Radio Recording
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B. (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
24
A practice of comparing present achievement against the previous achievement of a learner
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D. Ipsative
25
Abbreviation of âMOOCâ is
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C. Massive open online course
26
Ethnographic research comes under
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D. Phenomenological research
27
The formula to find out chi-square (Ï2) is : ( ( f âf ) 2 ( ( ( f âf ) ( 2
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A. Ï = ÎŁ o e 2
28
âThe conditions or characteristics that the experimenter manipulates or controls in his or her attempt to ascertain their relationship to observed phenomena is known as
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C. Independent variable
29
âProxemicsâ is the study of
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B. Peopleâs use of space and its relationship to culture
30
The Standard deviation of sampling distribution of a statistic is known as
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C. Standard error
31
âCrafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them and wise men __________ them.â
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D. use them
32
Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning âLove Conquers Allâ ?
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A. The Prioress
33
In which meter did John Milton Write the Book IX of Paradise Lost ?
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C. Blank Verse
34
âThy _________ makes my circle just And makes me end where I beganâ
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C. firmness
35
Who among the following is not a Graveyard poet ?
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D. Alexander Pope
36
Which statement is true regarding the two plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malphi ?
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A. Both are tragedies that deal with the revenge motif
37
Where does Act 1 scene 1 of William Congreveâs Way of the World open ?
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B. a chocolate house
38
What does the inscription that appears on Dr Faustusâs arm O Homo fuge mean ?
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B. O Man, fly
39
Who was the famous playwright mentioned thrice in Mac Flecknoe whom Thomas Shadwell greatly admired ?
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A. Ben Jonson
40
Who was the publisher of the Shakespearean sonnets ?
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C. Thomas Thorpe
41
âIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wifeâ. This sentence occurs in
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B. Pride and Prejudice
42
Who wrote the preface to the second edition of âWuthering Heightsâ ?
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D. Charlotte Bronte
43
Name of the pupil friend of Jane Eyre at Lowood School
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A. Helen Burns
44
âThe Mill on the Flossâ was first published in
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B. 1860
45
Name Cecily Cardewâs governess in âThe Importance of Being Earnestâ
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C. Miss. Prism
46
Which is the scene of the tragic incidents in âThe Dream Childrenâ ?
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A. A great house in Norfolk
47
âO Lady! We receive but what we give.â Who is the lady referred to here ?
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D. Sara Hutchinson 8 A
48
The flowers that the blessed Damozel had in her hands are
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C. Lilies
49
The sub-title of âWindhoverâ is
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C. To Christ our Lord
50
âDeath Closes Allâ - appears in
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B. Tennysonâs âUlyssesâ
51
Who is described as âa drunken vain glorious lout in yeatsâ Easter 1916 ?
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B. John Mac Bride
52
Harold Pinterâs plays are usually associated with the theatre of __________
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B. The Absurd
53
Whose poetry abounds with animals symbols ?
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C. Ted Hughes
54
Who is the Protagonist in âThe Waste Landâ ?
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D. Tiresias
55
Which character is the embodiment of reason and common sense in âThe Lord of the Fliesâ ?
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C. Piggy
56
What is the original title of âthe portrait of the Artist as a Young manâ ?
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A. Stephen Hero
57
Philip Larkin belonged to the __________ of poetry
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C. The Movement School
58
Who authored the book âThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runnerâ ?
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D. Allen Sillitoe
59
Name the playwright who tells his audience âI must warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figuresâ
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C. George Bernard shaw
60
âThe Waste Landâ was published in the year __________
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C. 1922
61
Michel Foucault views the author as
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B. Function
62
The method according to which old names can be utilized in new circumstances is
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D. Paleonymy
63
Which among the following is the Vignaa caused by lack of training on the part of the Sahrudaya ?
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B. Intrusion of space
64
According to T.S. Eliot, emotion of art is
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A. Impersonal
65
Gynocriticism aims to
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D. Understand womenâs writing as a fundamental aspects of female reality
66
Sharankumar Limbala states that dalit literature emerges from
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B. Experience
67
Periphrasis is
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B. Circumlocution
68
âArt as Techniqueâ highlights the concept of
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C. Defamiliarization
69
The statement âOne may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetryâ was made by
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C. Sidney
70
Which poem by Wordsworth is cited by Cleanth Brooks as based on a paradoxical situation ?
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A. It is a beauteous evening
71
The way in which linguistic elements are put together to form phrases or clauses are called
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B. syntax
72
Specific features that are superimposed on the utterance of speech are
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A. Suprasegmentals
73
âDerivationâ and âcompoundingâ are terms related to __________
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C. Morphology
74
Naom Chomsky is generally associated with
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A. Generative Grammar
75
The signifier and the signified are terms used in the linguistic theory of
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B. Ferdinand Saussure
76
The first Germanic sound shift is also known as
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B. Grimmâs Law
77
Kentish, Mexican, Northumbrian etc are __________ dialects
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D. Old English
78
The Language variety unique to a single speaker of a language is called __________
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D. idiolect
79
Chaucerâs âCanterbury Talesâ is an example of __________ dialect
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B. Middle English
80
The classical words found a way to the English language since the __________
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A. Renaissance
81
Name the author of the poem Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher
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C. Nissim Ezekiel
82
Which tree is immortalized by Toru Dutt in her autobiographical poem ?
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B. Casuarina
83
Who is the third occupant in the Carriage described in Emily Dickinsonâs poem Because I could not Stop for Death ?
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D. Immortality
84
Kamaladasâs concept of language in the poem Introduction
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D. Dream in one
85
Which Road did the traveller choose in Robert Frostâs poem Road Not Taken ?
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A. The less travelled road
86
The heads of Devadatta and __________ were interchanged in Girish Karnadâs Hayavadana
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C. Kapila
87
Brutus in Eugene O âNeilâs play Emperor Jones Keeps his followers under control with his much acclaimed __________
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B. Silver Bullet
88
The broken Unicorn is the symbol of _________ in the play Glass Menagerie
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A. Laura
89
What time did the clock hands show at Salim Sinaiâs birth in The midnightâs children ?
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B. 12 midnight
90
Which letter is used to brand the protagonist in Hawthornâs novel The Scarlet Letter ?
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C. A
91
âBlack Skin, White Masksâ is a work by __________
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C. Frantz Fanon
92
An inter disciplinary approach to the relation between literature and environment is found in __________
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B. Eco criticism
93
âEnemies, A Love Storyâ is a __________ narrative by I saac Bashevis Singer
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A. Holocaust
94
The feminist anthology âThis Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colorâ is edited by __________
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C. Gloria Anzalduá± a and Cherrie Moraga
95
The terms âLesbian existenceâ and âLesbian Continuumâ were advocated by _________
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B. Adrienne Rich
96
The terms âthick descriptionâ was used by the anthropologist clifford Geertz in his work __________
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D. The Interpretation of Cultures
97
The term âCulture Industryâ is associated with __________
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B. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
98
The German sociologist who is the author of âThe Structural Transformation of the Public Sphereâ _________
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B. ÉșÉș Jurgen Habermas
99
The author of âThe Post Modern Conditionâ
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A. Jean - Francois Lyotard
100
__________ is a key feature of diasporic literature
Answer
A. Displacement
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