Skip to content
10th Level - Practice App Completely Free · 100K+ Users Install

Kerala PSC Lecturer in English Previous Question Paper – 050/2014

Practice Mode

Sit all 91 questions full screen, one at a time. Sign in and your score, your time and where you got to are kept — put it down here and finish it on your phone.

Sign in to practise
Post NameLECTURER IN ENGLISH
DepartmentKERALA COLLEGIATEN EDUCATION
Question Paper Code050/2014
Date of Test29 April 2014
Medium of QuestionENGLISH
Exam TypeOMR Examination
Total Questions100
1
Who called Milton ā€œGod gifted organ voice of Englandā€? | |
Answer
B. Tennyson
2
The year of publication of ā€œThe Duchess of Malfiā€ :
Answer
Question Cancelled
3
ā€œDissociation of sensibilityā€ is connected with : |
Answer
Question Cancelled
4
Who wrote ā€œThe paths of glory lead, but to the grave"? .
Answer
B. Gray |
5
Who was ā€œAtticusā€?
Answer
Question Cancelled
6
Who printed a collection of 154 sonnets of Shakespeare in 1609? |
Answer
C. Thomas Thorpe
7
The phrase ā€œDull sublunary lovers’ loveā€ is from the poem by: ~
Answer
A. Donne
8
8 The character in Shakespeare's ā€œTwelfth Nightā€ :
Answer
D. Malvolio
9
Thomas Shadwell is associated with :'
Answer
B. Macflecknoe !
10
The line ā€œCover her face; mine face dazzle; she died young ...ā€ is from :
Answer
C. The Duchess of Malfi
11
The poem ā€œDejection : An Odeā€ is addressed to :
Answer
D. Sara Hutchinson
12
The poem ā€œOde to the West Windā€ concludes with a note of :
Answer
B. Optimism
13
ā€œAnd we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight where ignorant armies clash by nightā€. The above lines from a Victorian poet allude to ;
Answer
C. Peloponnesian war
14
The model of the character Alice Winterton in the essay ā€œDream Children : A Reverieā€ is :
Answer
A. Anne Simmons
15
i 15. Bunbury is an imaginary character in the play :
Answer
C. Importance of Being Earnest
16
The poem, The Windhover is dedicated to ——————.—— by Hopkins.
Answer
D. Christ our Lord
17
Currel Bellis the pseudonym of the famous novelist :
Answer
A. Charlotte Bronte
18
-The statement ā€˜Beauty is truth, truth Beauty’ appears in the ——-—————— stanza of Keats’ ._ poem.
Answer
B. last .
19
Wessex is an imaginary county in the novels of :
Answer
A. Thomas Hardy
20
Author of the book Marriage of Heaven and Hell is: |
Answer
B. Blake
21
Easter 1916 was published in:
Answer
Question Cancelled
22
How many parts does Je Waste Land have? .
Answer
B. V
23
Whose favourite theme is ā€˜War and the pity of war?
Answer
A. Wilfred Owen
24
Whose poctic collection is ā€˜Whitsun Weddings’?
Answer
A. Philip Larkin
25
Lear is a play written by:-:
Answer
C. Edward Bond
26
Who is the heroine in the novel The Golden Note Book? 3
Answer
A. Anna Woolf
27
Stephen Daedalus ia the hero in the novel : | |
28
———__—— ja the professor in Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
Answer
B. Professor Wasserkopf
29
In which play the following line does oceur? | ā€œAction is suffering and suffering actionā€
Answer
A. Murder in the Cathedral
30
The discovery or recognition that happens towards the end ofa tragedy is :
Answer
A. Peripeteia
31
Eliot describes the progress of an artist as an outcome of the process of :
Answer
C. tradition ;
32
When dealing with the ancient poets, our judgement and our language are likely to be affected by the —————————- estimate.
Answer
B. realistic
33
Longinus approves of the greatness of Greek masterpieces on account of their :
Answer
D. relativity
34
The trust in the combination of presence and language is what Jacques Derrida calls :
Answer
B. transference
35
The trust in the combination of presence and language is what Jacques Derrida calls:
Answer
A. logocentrism
36
________ arose as an alternative to phallocentric criticism.
Answer
Question Cancelled
37
The Russian formalist who coined the term defamiliarization was:
Answer
B. Victor Shklovsky
38
In Sanskrit literary criticism ________ is considered as ā€˜the ultimate end of all literature, the highest aesthetic value which is an end in itself.’
Answer
C. Rasa
39
The emotions that are delineated in literature as more abiding and lasting are called:
Answer
A. Sthayibhavas
40
Artistically devised sound patterns like anuprasa, yamaka and slesa are examples of:
Answer
B. Sabdalamkara
41
English belongs to the ________ branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Answer
B. West Germanic
42
The most important work written in the Anglo-Saxon language was:
Answer
A. Beowulf
43
________ period was characterised by radical change in grammar and vocabulary of English language.
Answer
B. Middle English
44
Dialects based on social stratification is called:
Answer
Question Cancelled
45
Positional variants of phonemes are known as:
Answer
C. allophones
46
Identify the suprasegmental feature:
Answer
D. intonation
47
Which of the following is an example of ā€˜compounding’?
Answer
C. Aircraft
48
IC analysis was introduced by:
Answer
C. Bloomfield
49
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax was written by:
Answer
D. Chomsky
50
Language variety showing features typical of an occupation is referred to as:
Answer
A. register
51
Nissim Ezekiel's poem ā€˜Poet, Lover, Bird watcher’ is included in the volume:
Answer
A. The Exact Name
52
Who called Walt Whitman ā€˜a homespun eccentric’?
Answer
D. Robert Graves
53
ā€˜If the word great means anything in poetry, this poem is one of the greatest in the English language.’ About which poem did Allen Tate make this comment?
Answer
C. Because I could not Stop for Death
54
Which of the following statements is not true of the play, The Emperor Jones?
Answer
D. There are only ten scenes in the play
55
ā€˜Men themselves have wondered / What they see in me / They try so much / But they can't touch / My inner mystery.’ These lines are taken from the poem:
Answer
C. Phenomenal Woman
56
ā€˜He has violated in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.’ This comment on Roger Chillingworth is made by:
Answer
A. Arthur Dimmesdale
57
According to Emerson ā€˜Nothing can bring you peace, but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but ________.’
Answer
B. the triumph of principles
58
The plot of the play The Glass Menagerie is based on Tennessee Williams' own short story:
Answer
Question Cancelled
59
Name the critic who regarded Robert Frost as a ā€˜Terrifying Poet’:
Answer
B. Lionel Trilling
60
What does Lula in Amiri Baraka's play The Dutchman eat while flirting with Clay on the subway train?
Answer
A. Apple
61
The discipline of New Historicism has been influenced by:
Answer
Question Cancelled
62
________ defines the Public Sphere as a ā€˜society engaged in critical public debate’.
Answer
A. Habermas
63
Who among the following is associated with Marxist environmentalism?
Answer
C. David Pepper
64
Which of the following names is not associated with the Negritude movement?
Answer
D. Wole Soyinka
65
The idea of ā€˜lesbian continuum’ is associated with:
Answer
B. Adrienne Rich
66
The New Feminism, an influential feminist book is authored by:
Answer
A. Natasha Walter
67
ā€˜Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’ is authored by:
Answer
D. Arjun Appadurai
68
The work by Borges borrowed by Baudrillard to explain hyper-reality is:
Answer
A. On Exactitude in Science
69
Which of the following is a seminal work in culture studies authored by Richard Hoggart?
Answer
Question Cancelled
70
Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma was written by:
Answer
C. Kali Tal
71
Which of the following sampling method is preferred for studying heterogeneous population?
Answer
B. Stratified sampling
72
A test that examine subjects' thoughts and thought processes is:
Answer
A. Cognitive test
73
Which of the following is most appropriate about discussion part of a research paper?
Answer
B. Explain how the findings concur with that of others
74
The process of collecting and analyzing information to develop or enhance a theory is:
Answer
A. Basic research
75
If you want to determine whether and to what degree a relationship exists between two or more variables what kind of study you have to do?
Answer
B. Correlation
76
Creating a class room climate conducive to develop positive self concept in students is by:
Answer
D. All the above
77
Which of the following teacher will be liked most?
Answer
B. A teacher who make teaching learning process enjoyable
78
An instructional model that identifies the major variable in the teaching learning process includes:
Answer
D. All the above
79
The extent of teachers' subject matter and pedagogical expertise indicates the teachers:
Answer
C. Competency
80
What will be the impact of interactive teaching?
Answer
D. It will make teaching learning process effective, democratic and friendly
81
The term socialist has been inserted in the preamble by the ______ Amendment Act of the Constitution.
Answer
B. 42
82
Right for freedom to form Association is provided in ______ Article of the Constitution.
Answer
C. 19(1)(c)
83
Money Bill can be introduced in:
Answer
A. Lok Sabha
84
Legislative council of a State:
Answer
C. Can be abolished by the Parliament based on the resolution passed by the majority of the Legislative Assembly
85
Which of the following statement is true? (1) The President can make a proclamation declaring emergency only when he receives in writing the decision of the Union Cabinet to this effect. (2) The President could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of internal disturbance. (3) The President could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of Armed Rebellion. (4) The President could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of External Aggression.
Answer
B. 1, 3, 4
86
According to Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1980 Child mean the person who has not completed his ą²Žą²‚ year of age.
Answer
D. 14
87
What is the penalty for the refusal of the RTI appheation by the Public information Officer?
Answer
D. Ks. 25,000
88
Which of the following statement is not true?
Answer
C. No child shall be permitted to work between § p.m. and 8 a.m.
89
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 : (1) Protects women working in that place (2) Protects any women who enters the work place like.clients, customer, ete. (3) Protects all the employees who are working there (4) Protects only women working in government institutions
Answer
A. land 2
90
Whoever contravenes the provisions of 5.24 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, prohibition on use of stream or well for disposal of polluting matter shall be | punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be lesa than :
Answer
D. 1 4 year but which may extend to 6 years and with fine
91
In which novel of Kesava Dev ā€˜Pappu’ appears as the main character?
Answer
A. Odayil Ninnu
92
The First editor of Swadeshabhiman) daily :
Answer
D. C.P. Govinda Pilla |
93
Who organised ā€˜Misrabhojanam’? |
Answer
B. Sahodaran Ayyappan
94
ā€˜Pattini Jatha’ led by :
Answer
C. AK. Gopalan
95
Who took Prime role in the publication of ā€˜Rajvasamacharam’?
Answer
B. Dr. Herman Gundert
96
The Chief guest on the occassion of 65% Republic day celebration ;
Answer
A. Shinzo Abe
97
Which amount the following diseases is eradicated through immunisation programme in | India?
Answer
A. Polio
98
Who inaugurated the new Kerala legislative assembly building in 1998?
Answer
C. E.R. Narayanan
99
The Minister who presented and passed the Land reformation act of Kerala in 1969:
Answer
D. K.R. Gouri
100
The bowler to take Sachin’s wicket in his last test -
Answer
B. Narsingh Deo Narine

Related reading

Discussion

Ask a doubt or share a tip.

No comments yet — start the discussion.

Leave a comment

Your email address and number are never published. Required fields are marked

We will email you a code to confirm the address. Posting creates a PSCNET account if you do not have one.

By posting, you agree to our Privacy Policy.