| Post Name | LECTURER IN ENGLISH |
|---|---|
| Department | COLLEGIATE EDUCATION |
| Question Paper Code | 023/2015/OL |
| Category Code | 578/2012 |
| Date of Test | 27 October 2015 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
First Governor of Kerala State :
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C. B. Ramakrishna Rao
2
The Indian Constitution has borrowed the idea of preamble from :
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D. Constitution of USA
3
The 1st Bank in India :
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A. Bank of Hindustan
4
The person who won 'Dadasaheb Phalke' award of 2014 :
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B. Shashi Kapoor
5
Telangana State is came into being existed on :
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D. June 2014
6
Who was the founder of 'Islamia Public House' ?
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Question Cancelled
7
The Nair Service Society was founded in the year :
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C. 1914
8
The Madrass Governor who issued orders permitting Channar women to wear Jacket and Pinafore ?
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Question Cancelled
9
Who was the Editor of the Newspaper 'Desabhimani' ?
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A. T.K. Madhavan
10
'Varthamana Pustakam' the first travelogue in Malayalam was written by :
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C. Paremekkal Thoma Kathanar
11
What aspect of the research report should be most concerned, when it is not peer reviewed ?
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C. The quality of the research
12
Which of the following is not a form of qualitative research ?
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B. Ex-post facto research
13
Who popularized action research ?
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C. Stephen M Corey
14
Longitudinal studies investigate :
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D. Same subjects over time
15
A suggested explanation for something, which has not been proved to be true is :
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Question Cancelled
16
Assessment used to monitor learning progress during instruction :
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A. Formative assessment
17
What is meant by Retro-active inhibition ?
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C. Failure to recall earlier learning due to the interference of new learning
18
'Drive Reduction Theory of Learning' is formulated by :
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D. Hull
19
Reinforcement is a major principle in :
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D. Behaviourism
20
The personality of teachers influence the personality of students through a process of :
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C. Psycho-osmosis
21
The minimum number of members prescribed for a Legislative Assembly under Article 170(1) of the Constitution of India is __________ .
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C. sixty
22
Article 21-A was introduced into The Constitution of India through __________ .
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B. The Constitution (eighty-sixth Amendment) Act 2002
23
The Supreme Court has held that National Awards like 'Bharat Ratna', 'Padma Bhushan', etc. are not 'Titles' within the meaning of Article 18 in __________ .
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A. Balaji Raghavan v Union of India AIR 1996 SC 770
24
__________ of the Constitution of India directs the State to strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may, a social order in which justice, social economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of the National life.
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D. Article 38(1)
25
The Constitution of India imposes a duty upon citizens to safeguard public property and to abjure from violence through __________ .
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C. Article 51-A(i)
26
The Chief Information Commissioner under The Right to Information Act 2005 shall hold office for a term of __________ from the date of entering office, subject to a maximum age of 65 years.
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A. Five years
27
Under Section 12(1)(b) of The Sexual Harassment of Women at workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013, during the pendency of an enquiry, the committee on written request of the aggrieved woman, may recommend to the employer to grant her leave up to a period of __________ .
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A. three months
28
As per Section 4(1)(b) of The National Green Tribunal Act 2010, The Tribunal shall consist of a maximum of __________ full time Judicial members.
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D. twenty
29
As per Section 58, offences under The Biological Diversity Act 2002 shall be __________ .
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C. Cognizable and non-bailable
30
Under Section 7(1) of The Mahatma Gandhi NREG Act 2005, if an applicant for employment under the scheme is not provided such employment within __________ of receipt of his application seeking employment, he shall be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance.
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B. fifteen days
31
The return of which season is described in the opening of "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales ?
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C. Spring
32
The pilgrims in "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales represent a cross section of __________ English society.
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C. Fourteenth Century
33
The two beautiful maidens in "Prothalamion" are the daughters of __________ .
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B. The Earl of Worcester
34
/To this I witness call the fools of Time/ Which die for goodness who have lived for crime/ These lines are from Shakespeare's Sonnet __________ .
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D. One Hundred and Twenty Four
35
The number of lines in Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is __________ .
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B. Thirty Six
36
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. These lines are from a poem by :
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B. Thomas Gray
37
According to Francis Bacon, the chief use for ornament in studies is in __________ .
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C. discourse
38
The servant of Faustus who uses his master's books to learn how to summon devils :
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A. Wagner
39
The University where Hamlet studied :
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A. Wittenberg
40
Crabtree is a character in :
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D. The School for Scandal
41
"The Tiger" is __________ stanzas in length.
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B. six
42
"Ode on Intimations of Immortality" recollects __________ .
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D. Early Childhood
43
If winter comes, can spring be far behind ? Who wrote this line ?
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C. Shelly
44
Each stanza of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" consists of __________ lines.
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D. ten
45
"Ulysses" is a poem written in __________ .
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B. Blank verse
46
The poem "My Last Duchess" is set during the late __________ .
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D. Italian Renaissance
47
Which sea is mentioned in connection with Sophocles in "Dover Beach" ?
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C. Aegean Sea
48
Essays of Elia is collection of essays written by __________ .
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B. Charles Lamb
49
How many daughters Mrs. and Mr. Bennet have in Pride and Prejudice ?
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A. five
50
The alternate title of Oliver Twist is :
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D. The Parish Boy's Progress
51
What was the first title of W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" ?
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A. The Second Birth
52
The title of the third section of Eliot's The Waste Land is _________ .
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D. The Fire Sermon
53
The meaning of the word "simples" in "Church Going" :
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A. Herbs
54
Which King opposed Thomas Becket ?
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A. Henry II
55
In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins was professor of __________ .
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D. Phonetics
56
Which is the subtitle of the English version of Waiting for Godot ?
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D. a tragicomedy in two acts
57
Stanley Webber was a former __________ in The Birthday Party.
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B. Piano Player
58
What is the name of Stephen Dedalus's father ?
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A. Simon
59
When did Paul Morel become his mother's favourite ?
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D. after the death of William
60
The young painter who begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay :
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C. Lily
61
"Theory of Rasa" is taken from __________ .
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B. Natyasastra
62
Aristotle's Poetics is specifically concerned with __________ .
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C. drama
63
"On the Sublime" was written by :
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C. Longinus
64
According to Dr. Johnson, "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of __________".
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D. nature
65
"Willing suspension of disbelief" figures in _________ .
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D. Biographia Literaria
66
Who authored Anatomy of Criticism ?
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A. Northrop Frye
67
According to Viktor Shklovsky, the technique of art is to make objects :
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B. unfamiliar
68
In classical thought the centre is within the structure and outside it because, according to Derrida, the centre escapes __________ .
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D. structurality
69
In "What is an author ?", Foucault considers __________ as characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation and functioning of certain discourses within a society and he analyses it elaborately.
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C. author-function
70
Who can write Dalit literature, according to Sharankumar Limbale ?
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A. a Dalit
71
In philology, Grimm's law gives systematic statements on :
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A. Sound change
72
Old English is also known as :
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D. Anglo-Saxon
73
In which dialect was Beowulf written ?
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Question Cancelled
74
The Norman Conquest of England took place in __________ Century.
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C. 11th
75
Through the Great Vowel Shift, all Middle English _________ changed their pronunciation.
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A. long vowels
76
How many second person personal pronouns were in Early Modern English ?
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B. two
77
How many varieties of English are in use globally ?
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D. Many
78
Bloomfield is connected with __________ .
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C. American Structuralism
79
TG Grammar is associated with :
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B. Chomsky
80
Creole is __________ .
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B. a language developed from Pidgin
81
Gitanjali was originally written in __________
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C. Bengali
82
Sri Aurobindo's full name is ___________ .
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A. Aurobindo Ghose
83
In "Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher", the best poets wait for __________ .
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D. Words
84
In "Road not Taken", two roads diverged in a ___________ .
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B. yellow wood
85
Which ocean is mentioned in "Daddy" ?
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C. Atlantic
86
Who wrote "Philosophy of Hinduism" ?
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B. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
87
Emerson, in "Self Reliance" calls upon the individual to rely on :
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A. intuition
88
The rebels believed that Emperor Jones could be killed only by a :
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A. Silver bullet
89
In Midnight's Children, Saleem Sinai was held as a political prisoner during __________ .
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D. Emergency
90
Manjula Padmanabhan's The Harvest is a play that can be termed as :
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C. Futuristic
91
One of the following is considered a seminal text in Post Colonial Studies :
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C. The Wretched of the Earth
92
In relation to imperialism, colonialism specifically concerns __________ .
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D. settlement
93
Raymond Williams is associated with :
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B. Birmingham Centre
94
Dick Hebdige terms the new forms of cultures produced by marginalized groups __________ .
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B. Sub cultures
95
According to Baudrillard, 'hyperreal' is :
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Question Cancelled
96
Stephen Greenblatt is a __________ .
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A. New Historicist
97
Epistemology of the Closet, a significant contribution to queer theory is authored by __________ .
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D. Eve K Sedgwick
98
Cyber feminists consider cyber culture as __________ .
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A. revolutionary
99
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is written by :
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C. Habermas
100
Glotfelty defines ecocriticism as "the study of the relationship between literature and __________ ".
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D. physical environment
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