Kerala Set 2 (2011)
June 20, 2023 2023-12-18 15:59Kerala Set 2 (2011)
Kerala Set 2 (2011)
Q.1) ………… imported the decasyllabic line from France and under Italian influence made it pliable It became the heroic line which was the surpassing vehicle of the great poetry of England
(A) Chaucer
(B) Spenser
(C) Wyatt
(D) Marlowe
ANSWER: A
Q.2) In the Canterbury Tales, who recites the litany of lugubrious and monotonous ‘tragedies’ which sadden the Knight’s good heart and make the innkeeper yawn?
(A) The Yeoman
(B) The Ploughman
(C) The Miller
(D) The Monk
ANSWER: D
Q.3) “Here’s God’s plenty” – Who said these words about whom?
(A) Ben Jonson about Shakespeare
(B) Dr, Johnson about Milton
(C) Dryden about Chaucer
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: C
Q.4) Who wrote the Medieval Stage (2 volumes)
(A) A W Pollard
(B) Wilson Knight
(C) E K Chambers
(D) Arthur Quiller Couch
ANSWER: C
Q.5) Everyman is a
(A) Morality play
(B) Comedy
(C) Tragedy
(D) Interlude
ANSWER: A
Q.6) ……..all religions are authorised and toleration is the law even the Christian religion which has been introduced thither enjoys no privileges’
(A) Utopia
(B) Religio Medici
(C) Governour
(D) Areopagitica
ANSWER: A
Q.7) 2011 is the quatercentenary of the translation of the … English Bible
(A) Authorised King James Version
(B) Wycliff
(C) Tyndale
(D) Coverdale
ANSWER: A
Q.8) Who is almost the only representative of the “interlude school’ of dramatic writing?
(A) John Heywood
(B) William Stevenson
(C) David Lindsay
(D) John Redford
ANSWER: A
Q.9) The first English Comedy of the classical school was
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Class of Government
(C) Celestina
(D) Ralph Roister Doister
ANSWER: D
Q.10) When was Arcadia published?
(A) 1580
(B) 1585
(C) 1590
(D) 1595
ANSWER: C
Q.11) Name the author of The Shepherd´s Calendar
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) John Lyly
(C) Edmund Spenser
(D) Walter Raleigh
ANSWER: C
Q.12) “Here again inspiration comes from a classical legend Shakespeare has recourse to Ovid as Marlowe to Musaeus’ What are the works referred to?
(A) Hero and Leander and Venus and Adonais
(B) Dr. Faustus and Coriolanus
(C) The Jew of Malta and Titus Andronicus
(D) Tamburlaine and Troilus and Cressida
ANSWER: A
Q.13) “Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new” is from a poem by:
(A) Dryden
(B) Milton
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
ANSWER: B
Q.14) Name the author of New Atlantis
(A) Francis Bacon
(B) Thomas Coryate
(C) John Lyly
(D) John Donne
ANSWER: A
Q.15) Who declared idleness to be the scourge of England? “ldleness is the malus genius of our nation”
(A) Robert Burton
(B) Richard Hooker
(C) Bishop Andrews
(D) John Stephens
ANSWER: A
Q.16) “He bled Seneca white’, Who is the “he’ referred to and what is the play?
(A) John Lyly: Damon and Pythias
(B) George Peele: David and Bethsaba
(C) Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie
(D) Robert Greene: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
ANSWER: C
Q.17) Which character of Marlowe uttered the following words?
“Still climbing after know ledge infinite
And always moving as the restless spheres”
(A) Tamburlaine
(B) Dr Faustus
(C) Barabas
(D) King Edward
ANSWER: A
Q.18) Rabbi Zeal-of the-Land Busy is the chief character in which of Ben Jonson’s plays?
(A) Volpone
(B) Epicene
(C) The Alchemist
(D) Bartholomew Fair
ANSWER: D
Q.19) Who wrote A Game of Chess?
(A) John Webster
(B) Thomas Middieton
(C) Cvril Tourneur
(D) John Fletcher
ANSWER: B
Q.20) Name the metaphysical poet who wrote ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’
(A) Andrew Marvell
(B) John Donne
(C) Thomas Carew
(D) Robert Herrick
ANSWER: B
Q.21) How many plays did Shakespeare write?
(A) 30
(B) 36/37
(C) 40
(D) 45
ANSWER: B
Q.22) ·There is an upstart crow beautiful with our feathers/ that with his Tyger’s heart wrap in a player’s hide’ Who is described by whom in these lines?
(A) Shakespeare by Greene
(B) Shakespeare by Nashe
(C) Shakespeare by Ben Jonson
(D) Ben Jonson by Dekker
ANSWER: A
Q.23) Whose influence was still apparent in Richard IIP
(A) Marlowe
(B) Kyd
(C) Nashe
(D) Greene
ANSWER: A
Q.24) Which is the play in which Shakespeare follows the unities in their broad sense?
(A) Cymbeline
(B) The Winter’s Tale
(C) The Tempest
(D) Measure for Measure
ANSWER: C
Q.25) Which of the following is the narrative poem by Shakespeare noted for its lyrical beauty?
(A) The Rape of Lucrece
(B) The Rape of the Lock
(C) Astrophel and Stella
(D) The Relique
ANSWER: A
Q.26) Which play of Shakespeare (a farce) with a much involved plot was modelled on Plautus?
(A) The Comedy of Errors
(B) All’s Well that Ends Well
(C) Love’s Labour’s Lost
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
Q.27) “Some are born great, some achieve greatness some have greatness thrust upon them” – In which play of Shakespeare do these celebrated lines occur?
(A) Hamlet
(B) Twelfth Night
(C) Othello
(D) The Tempest
ANSWER: B
Q.28) Who said “I admire Ben Jonson but I love Shakespeare”?
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) John Dryden
(C) Charles Lamb
(D) William Hazlitt
ANSWER: B
Q.29) Biron is a character in Shakespeare’s
(A) Love’s Labour’s Lost
(B) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(D) The Comedy of Errors
ANSWER: A
Q.30) How many of Shakespeare’s dramas dcal with English history and how many with Roman history?
(A) 5,4
(B) 6 3
(C) 7,5
(D) 4 4
ANSWER: B
Q.31) Which play of Shakespeare begins with these lines?
“When shall we three meet again In thunder lightening or in rain”
(A) Macbeth
(B) Hamlet
(C) King Lear
(D) Othello
ANSWER: A
Q.32) Shakespeare was associated with the
(A) Globe Theatre
(B) New Theatre
(C) London Theatre
(D) Palace Theatre
ANSWER: A
Q.33) “For a good poet is made as well as born And such wert thou” – Who paid this richest compliment to Shakespeare?
(A) Bacon
(B) Webster
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) John Marston
ANSWER: C
Q.34) when was the folio edition of Shakespeare brought out?
(A) 1620
(B) 1623
(C) 1624
(D) 1626
ANSWER: B
Q.35) Which critic of Shakespeare wrote the Shakespearean Tragedy?
(A) A C Bradley
(B) L C Nights
(C) Wilson Knight
(D) Dowden
ANSWER: A
Q.36) Which play of Shakespeare do the critics consider most biographical and which character is identified with Shakespeare?
(A) King Lear, Lear
(B) Hamlet, Polonius
(C) The Tempest, Prospero
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: C
Q.37) Which of the following is the famous Shakespeare biographer?
(A) T S Eliot
(B) E K Chambers
(C) Charles Lamb
(D) Joseph Addison
ANSWER: B
Q.38) “All the world is a stage And all the men and women players” Whose words are these?
(A) Jaques
(B) Caliban
(C) Touchstone
(D) Falstaff
ANSWER: A
Q.39) “Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety” Who is the person referred to?
(A) Desdemona
(B) Miranda
(C) Cleopatra
(D) Viola
ANSWER: C
Q.40) How does the Shakespearean sonnet differ from the Petrarchan sonnet?
(A) In subject matter
(B) In rhyme scheme
(C) In style and diction
(D) In the treatment of love
ANSWER: B
Q.41) “Only with speeches fare/She woos the gentle air
To hide her guilty front with innocent snow”
These lines are from which of the works of Milton?
(A) Paradise Lost
(B) Paradise Regained
(C) The Comus
(D) On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
ANSWER: D
Q.42) “Milton’s … the fragment of a mas Que is a fine compliment in verse to Dowager Countess of Derby, w hose praises Spenser had sung when she was the wife of Lord Strange”
(A) Comus
(B) Arcades
(C) Lycidas
(D) L’Allegro
ANSWER: B
Q.43) Paradise Lost was published in
(A) 1665
(B) 1667
(C) 1670
(D) 1671
ANSWER: B
Q.44) Samson, the central character in Samson Agonistes is
(A) A Hebrew champion
(B) A Greek warrior
(C) A Roman emperor
(D) An English king
ANSWER: A
Q.45) Annus Mirabilis is a work by
(A) Dryden
(B) Samuel Butler
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Jon Denham
ANSWER: A
Q.46) Which of the following is not an allegory?
(A) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(B) The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
(C) The Holy War
(D) Hudibras
ANSWER: D
Q.47) Name the author of Essay on Criticism
(A) Pope
(B) Dryden
(C) Swift
(D) John Gay
ANSWER: A
Q.48) The kingdom of Laputa appears in which novel of Swift?
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Battle of the Books
(C) A Tale of a Tub
(D) Journal to Stella
Q.49) Which of the following is not by Dr Johnson?
(A) The Dictionary of the English Language
(B) Rasselas
(C) The Lives of the Poets
(D) Candida
ANSWER: D
Q.50) What is the subtitle of Richardson´s Pamela?
(A) Virtue Rewarded
(B) Clarissa
(C) The History of a Young Lady
(D) Pamela Abroad
ANSWER: A
Q.51) Identify the great English novelist living in the age of the Romantics, yet not affected by the stream of Romanticism
(A) Jane Austen
(B) Miss Burney
(C) John Wolcott
(D) George Eliot
ANSWER: A
Q.52) The main subject of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is
(A) Love and happiness: Grief and Rebellion
(B) Good and evil: Righteousness and unrighteousness
(C) Salvation and damnation: Hope and despair
(D) Slavery and freedom; Peace and justice
ANSWER: A
Q.53) The two great romantic poets behind the creation of Lyrical Ballads are
(A) Wordsworth and Coleridge
(B) Keats and Wordsworth
(C) Collins and Gray
(D) Byron and Shelley
ANSWER: A
Q.54) Which poem of Coleridge is considered as a ‘fragmentary epic’?
(A) The Ancient Mariner
(B) Kubla Khan
(C) Christabel
(D) Dejection
ANSWER: B
Q.55) Which of the following is not written by Lord Byron?
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
(C) The Prisoner of Chillon
(D) Don Juan
ANSWER: A
Q.56) Who nurtured the intellectual curiosity of Shelley in his formative period?
(A) Godwin
(B) Mill
(C) Locke
(D) Hobbes
ANSWER: A
Q.57) “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” Which poem of Keats begins with this line?
(A) Eve of St. Agnes
(B) Isabella
(C) Hyperion
(D) Endymion
ANSWER: D
Q.58) Which of the following books did Charles Lamb write in collaboration with his sister Mary?
(A) Essays of Elia
(B) Last Essays of Elia
(C) John Woodvil
(D) Tales from Shakespeare
ANSWER: D
Q.59) Which of the following characters is not the creation of Charles Dickens?
(A) Pickwick
(B) David Copperfield
(C) Micawber
(D) Michael Henchard
ANSWER: D
Q.60) -God’s in his heavens and All’s right with the world” Name the poet of this optimistic philosophy in the Victorian age?
(A) Christina Rossetti
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Williams Morris
(D) D.G. Rossetti
ANSWER: B
Q.61) “Centre cannot hold things fall apart” These are the words of
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) C. Day Lewis
(C) Rupert Brooke
(D) Philip Larkin
ANSWER: A
Q.62) J M Synge is playwright
(A) An Irish
(B) An English
(C) A Scottish
(D) A Welsh
ANSWER: A
Q.63) Name the author of the Hound of Heaven
(A) Francis Thomson
(B) George W. Russell
(C) George Moore
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
Q.64) Shaw was influenced by which of the continental writers?
(A) Goethe
(B) Victor Hugo
(C) Ibsen
(D) Dante
ANSWER: C
Q.65) G. Lytton Strachey is
(A) A biographer and a critic
(B) A novelist
(C) A playwright
(D) A poet
Q.66) “In order to know what you do not know You have to go by a way which is the way of ignorance” These lines are from T S Eliot’s
(A) The Waste Land
(B) Four Quartets
(C) Murder in the Cathedral
(D) East Coker
ANSWER: B
Q.67) Which of the following novels of D H Lawrence is the most autobiographical?
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Aaron’s Rod
(C) Kangaroo
(D) The Plumed Serpent
ANSWER: A
Q.68) Joyce employs the stream of consciousness technique in a special way in
(A) Dubliners
(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(C) Finnegan’s Wake
(D) Ulysses
ANSWER: D
Q.69) Virginia Woolf expresses her feminist views strongly in
(A) A Night and Day
(B) Jacob’s Room
(C) The Common Reader
(D) A Room of One’s Own
ANSWER: D
Q.70) ………is one of the very few English novels of E M Forster in which Indians see an acceptable picture of themselves
(A) A Passage to India
(B) Where Angels Feat to Tread
(C) The Longest Journey
(D) The Eternal Moment
ANSWER: A
Q.71) The Whisky Priest appears in which novel of Graham Greene?
(A) The Quiet American
(B) A Burnt-Out Case
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) A Gun for Sale
ANSWER: C
Q.72) George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 basically centre around
(A) Anti-Stalin obsession
(B) Anti-Hitler obsession
(C) Anti-Mussolini obsession
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
Q.73) Look Back in Anger expresses the concerns of
(A) Angry young women
(B) Angry young men
(C) Angry economists
(D) Angry professionals
ANSWER: B
Q.74) Which of the following American writers exerted tremendous influence on Mahatma Gandhi?
(A) Emerson
(B) Thoreau
(C) Melville
(D) Hemingway
ANSWER: B
Q.75) Whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated in India and the world over, now?
(A) Tagore
(B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Toru Dutt
(D) Kamala Das
ANSWER: A
Q.76) Salman Rushdie’s Midnights Children won the
(A) Nobel Prize
(B) Sahitya Academy Award
(C) Booker Prize
(D) Pulitzer Prize
ANSWER: B
Q.77) Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is
(A) A novel
(B) A play
(C) A collection of stories
(D) A travelogue
ANSWER: A
Q.78) Womanism is a woman’s liberative concept that runs through the works of
(A) Tony Morrison
(B) Emily Dickinson
(C) William Faulkner
(D) Silvia Plath
ANSWER: A
Q.79) Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is a
(A) Domestic tragedy
(B) Political satire
(C) Cultural criticism
(D) Social indictment
ANSWER: A
Q.80) Man may be destroyed but he cannot be defeated’ is the theme of Hemingway’ s novel
(A) The Old Man and the Sea
(B) A Farewell to Arms
(C) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
Q.81) identify the bilabial plosive consonants
(A) [p/b]
(B) [k/g]
(C)[t/d]
(D)[f/v]
ANSWER: A
Q.82) Normally it a word ends in’-tion’, the stress falls on
(A) Last Syllable
(B) Last but one syllable
(C) Any syllable
(D) First syllable
ANSWER: B
Q.83) Which sibilant occurs in the following plurals”
Book -s Pens-s glass-es
(A) s/s/is
(B) s/z/is
(C) s/z/iz
(D) z/s/iz
ANSWER: C
Q.84) Who wrote Aspects of the Theory of Syntax?
(A) Bloomfield
(B) Harris
(C) Chomsky
(D) Halliday
ANSWER: C
Q.85) Bound forms…… are phonetic forms with constant meaning
(A) Morphemes
(B) Lexical items
(C) Sentence connectors
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
Q.86) “Flying planes can be dangerous’ is an oft cited example for
(A) Structural ambiguity
(B) Head of noun phrases
(C) Resolving contrast
(D) I C Analysis
ANSWER: A
Q.87) In T G Grammar “the sentence that is embedded into the other’ is known as
(A) Constituent
(B) Surface structure
(C) Alternant
(D) Binding
ANSWER: A
Q.88) Morphologically English has two tenses only They are the
(A) Present and Past
(B) Past and non-past
(C) Present and Perfect
(D) Present and Progressive
ANSWER: A
Q.89) According to Grim…… in Indo-European was changed to…… in Germanic language
(A) p/ k to f/h
(B) p/b to f/c
(C) p/t to p/d
(D) t/k to d/g
ANSWER: A
Q.90) Thames, A von, Dover and Wye are examples of influence on English,
(A) Latin
(B) Greek
(C) Scandinavian
(D) Celtic
ANSWER: D
Q.91) That which contributed to the evolution of Middle English was
(A) The Norman con Quest (1066)
(B) The Greek influence
(C) The discovery of Sanskrit
(D) The diffusion of German and English
ANSWER: A
Q.92) Poramboke, catamaran, raja, chutney are examples of contribution to English vocabulary
(A) Chinese
(B) Indian
(C) Sinhalese
(D) South East Asian
ANSWER: B
Q.93) Smoke filled the room The passive form is
(A) The room was filled with smoke
(B) The room was filled in smoke
(C) The room was filed by smoke
(D) The room was filled through smoke
ANSWER: A
Q.94) Which of the following sentences is wrong?
(A) The students together with the teacher are playing football
(B) Johnson together with the teachers is playing football
(C) Johnson together with the teachers are playing football
(D) Johnson together with Jose is playing football
ANSWER: C
Q.95) Spot out the right sentence
(A) It has been raining since two hours
(B) It has been raining for two hours
(C) It is raining since two hours
(D) it is raining for two hours
ANSWER: B
Q.96) The phrasal verb ‘to put up with’ means
(A) To tolerate
(B) To show a particular level of skill
(C) To provide food and accommodation to somebody in one’s house
(D) To offer oneself as a candidate
ANSWER: A
Q.97) Identify the right idiomatic usage
(A) My father finds it very difficult to make both ends meet
(B) My father finds it very difficult to make both his ends meet
(C) My father finds it very difficult to make both the ends meet
(D) My father finds it very difficult to make both of the ends meet
ANSWER: A
Q.98) Homophones are pairs of words
(A) With same pronunciation but different meaning
(B) Different pronunciation with same meaning
(C) Different spelling with same meaning
(D) Different meaning with same spelling
Q.99) “He runs a shop’ In this sentence the verb’ runs” is used as
(A) Transitive verb
(B) Intransitive verb
(C) Irregular verb
(D) Linking verb
ANSWER: A
Q.100) Which of the following ‘italicized adjectival usage’ is correct?
(A) He is suffering from a runny nose
(B) He is suffering from a runney nose
(C) He is suffering from a runnying nose
(D) He is suffering from a runningly nose
ANSWER: A
Q.101) To Aristotle ‘catharsis’ means
(A) Fall from high estate in life
(B) Purgation of the emotions
(C) To correct manners
(D) To refine the conduct
Q.102) The hamartia, the anagnorisis and the peripeteia are the three key elements in
(A) A plot
(B) An ode
(C) A lyric
(D) An epic
Q.103) Who proposed the’ Touchstone’ method for literary evaluation?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) T S Eliot
(C) I A Richards
(D) F R Leavis
Q.104) By the term ‘dissociation of sensibility’ Eliot meant
(A) The unification of thought and feeling
(B) The unification of thought and intellect
(C) The unification of intellect and reason
(D) The unification of emotions and feelings
Q.105) A Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy was written by
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) John Milton
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
Q.106) I A Richards pioneered the technique called
(A) Practical criticism
(B) Descriptive analysis
(C) Historical criticism
(D) Interpretive evaluation
Q.107) William Empson, in is celebrated book, identified……… types of ambiguity in literary Style
(A) 5
(B) 6
(C)7
(D) 9
Q.108) Identify the scholarly journal founded and edited by F R Leavis and Q. D Leavis
(A) Scrutiny
(B) Criterion
(C) Lyceum
(D) Athenum
Q.109) The New Critics attempted to show in a work of art
(A) The internal contradictions
(B) The disunity which underlies its apparent unity
(C) The unity beneath apparent disunity
(D) None of these
Q.110) Structuralism, an intellectual movement in France, is first seen in the work of the Anthropologist
(A) Ronald Barthes
(B) Claude Levi-Strauss
(C) Frantz Kafka
(D) Jacques Lacan
Q.111) The concept of signifier versus signified was the contribution of the Swiss linguist
(A) Bloomfield
(B) Edward Sapir
(C) Roman Jakobson
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Q.112) There is nothing outside the text’ is the most frequently Quoted line from
(A) Derrida
(B) Spivak
(C) Neitzsche
(D) Heidegger
Q.113) The book which can be said to inaugurate post-colonial criticism is
(A) Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
(B) Edward Said’s Orientalism
(C) Gayatri Spivak’s In Other Worlds
(D) Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture
Q.114) The male contribution to the tradition of feminist writing is found in John Stuart Mill’s
(A) The Subjection of Woman
(B) A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(C) Women and Labour
(D) The Origin of the Family
Q.115) In the direct method of language teaching the medium of communication is
(A) Mother tongue mixed with second language
(B) The foreign/second language
(C) Vernacular mixed with second /foreign language
(D) Any language depending upon the classroom requirement
Q.116) Seminars and library work help the students in
(A) Independent work/interactive learning
(B) Creative thinking
(C) Critical study
(D) Mechanical/role learning
Q.117) Socio-linguistics helps evolve materials for language teaching more in respect of
(A) Disadvantaged groups
(B) Elites
(C) Non-native learners
(D) Bilingual learners
Q.118) What is meant by eclectic method of language teaching?
(A) A combination of grammar translation and direct methods
(B) A combination of audio-visual and structural methods
(C) A combination of functional and communicative approaches
(D) A common-sense blending of the situation required-methods
Q.119) Who is the author of the essay’ Is There a Text in This Class’
(A) Stanley Fish
(B) Gayatri Spivak
(C) Derrida
(D) Said
Q.120) Communicative approach to language teaching/learning is basically
(A) Classroom centred
(B) Learner centred
(C) Teacher centred
(D) Textbook centred
