Kerala Set 5 (2015)
June 20, 2023 2023-12-18 16:02Kerala Set 5 (2015)
Kerala Set 5 (2015)
Q.1) The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales gives an account of the journey of the pilgrims under the guidance of………
(A) John Gower
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harry Bailly
(D) Nicholas Trivet
ANSWER: C
Q.2) Philip Sidney commented -having slipped into the title of a poet” in……
(A) Arcadia
(B)Astrophil and Stella
(C) The Lady of May
(D) An Apology for Poetry
ANSWER: D
Q.3) Shakespeare was called an “upstart crow” by……
(A) William Hazlitt
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Thomas Rymer
(D) Robert Greene
ANSWER: D
Q.4) The critical work Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) was written by……
(A) Bradley
(B) Bowler
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Dryden
ANSWER: A
Q.5) ……is a poem in memory of Edward King who had drowned while crossing the Irish Sea
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Lycidas
(C) Adonais
(D) Comus
ANSWER: B
Q.6) ……….contended that Milton in Paradise Lost” was of the Devil’s party without knowing it”
(A) Blake and Shelley
(B) Eliot and Leavis
(C) Keats and Wordsworth
(D) Coleridge and Wordsworth
ANSWER: A
Q.7) The lines given below are from Philip Larkin’s poem titled……
“Power of some sort or other will go on
In games, in riddles, seemingly at random”
(A) The Whitsun Weddings
(B) Church Going
(C) Next Please
(D) Faith Healing
ANSWER: B
Q.8) Andrew Motion is the official biographer of……
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) Yéats
(C) Larkin
(D) Eliot
ANSWER: C
Q.9) ……… is a portmanteau word
(A) Brunch
(B) Pastime
(C) Semblance
(D) Fogey
ANSWER: A
Q.10) ‘Impracticable’ contains……
(A) Bound Morpheme + Free Morpheme
(B) Free +Bound +Free Morpheme
(C) Bound + Free +Bound Morpheme
(D) Free +bound + Bound morpheme
ANSWER: C
Q.11) ……… is associated with deconstruction
(A) Said
(B) Derrida
(C) Spivak
(D) Ashcroft
ANSWER: B
Q.12) In Theory: Nations, Literatures is written by…………
(A) Homi K Bhabha
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Aijas Ahmed
ANSWER: D
Q.13) Tottel’s Miscella was brought out in 1557 by Richand Tottel in collaboration with…
(A) Nicholas Grimald
(B) Thomas Wyatt
(C) Thomas Vaux
(D) Henry Surrey
ANSWER: A
Q.14) Who among the following wrote the poem The Progress of the Soul?
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) Henry Vaughan
(C) John Donne
(D) Abraham Cowley
ANSWER: C
Q.15) …… is the rhyme scheme of Spenserian stanza
(A) ababbcbcc
(B) abcabcabc
(C) abbaabbac
(D) ababababc
ANSWER: A
Q.16) …… cannot be categorized as Shakespeare’s problem play
(A) All’s Well that Ends Well
(B) Troilus and Cressida
(C) The Merchant of Venice,
(D) Measure for Measure
ANSWER: C
Q.17) Biographical Literaria by…… proclaimed Shakespeare’s characters as human
(A) Halli Well
(B) Johnson
(C) Dowden
(D) Coleridge
ANSWER: D
Q.18) Hotspur is killed at the Battle of……
(A) Cotswolds
(B) Shrewsbury
(C) Gloucester
(D) Lancaster
ANSWER: B
Q.19) In Dryden……… criticizes the Anglican Church
(A) All for Love
(B) Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Annus Mirakilis
(D) The Hind and the Panther
ANSWER: D
Q.20) The Dunciad was a reply to……… for his criticism of Pope’s edition of Shakespeare
(A) Lewis Theobald
(B) Laurence Eusden
(C) Elkanah Settle
(D) Colley Cibber
ANSWER: A
Q.21) One of the following is not a work of Lord Byron
(A) Hudibras
(B) Don Juan
(C) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(D) The Bridge of Abydos
ANSWER: A
Q.22) Des Imagists, an Anthology of Imagist poetry was edited by
(A) Ezra Pound
(B) Richard Aldington
(C) T S Eliot
(D) James Joyce
ANSWER: A
Q.23) Identify the title of W H Auden’s poem with these lines;
“In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing foundation start
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise”
(A) Lullaby
(B) The Unknown Citizen
(C) In Memory of W.B.Yeats
(D) The Shield of Achilles
ANSWER: C
Q.24) The Wasteland is dedicated to ………
(A) Leonard Woolf
(B) Irving Babbitt
(C) Ezra Pound
(D) Virginia Woolf
ANSWER: C
Q.25) The letter p` is silent in
(A) Plausible
(B) Receipt
(C) Adept
(D) Impact
ANSWER: B
Q.26) Complete the sentence: John has been ………All Week collecting data but the report has not been completed
(A)Getting the axe
(B) Blowing his own trumpet
(C) Chasing his tail
(D) Letting the cat out of the bag
ANSWER: C
Q.27) “Cite’ and ‘site’ are examples of………
(A) Neologism
(B) Homonym
(C) Homophone
(D) Homograph
ANSWER: C
Q.28) The principles of CLT were formulated by……
(A) B F Skinner
(B) David Nunan
(C) Ivan Pavlov
(D) Bloomfield
ANSWER: B
Q.29) Constructivism is associated with……
(A) Sapir
(B) Gardner
(C) Watson
(D) Piaget
ANSWER: D
Q.30) ………… is one of the authors of the book titled The Empire Writes Back
(A) Gayathri Spivak
(B) Homi K Bhabha
(C) Edward Said
(D) Bill Ashcroft
ANSWER: D
Q.31) …… is the writer of Solitary Devotions
(A) Andrew Marvell
(B) George Herbert
(C) Edmund Spenser
(D) Henry Vaughan
ANSWER: D
Q.32) Who is the traveler in More’s Utopia?
(A) Sidgwick
(B) Hythlodaeus
(C) Ricardo
(D) Campanella
ANSWER: B
Q.33) Which one of the following is not written by Francis Bacon?
(A) Opus Tertium
(B) Novum Organum
(C) Sylva Sylvarium
(D) The New Atlantis
ANSWER: A
Q.34) Who is the Queen in the play Gorboduc?
(A) Elizabeth
(B) Georgia
(C) Videna
(D) Richland
ANSWER: C
Q.35) One among the following does not belong to the group of playwrights called “University Wits”?
(A) Marlowe
(B) Greene
(C) Nashe
(D) Pinero
ANSWER: D
Q.36) Who is Shylock’s daughter in The Merchant of Venice!
(A) Jessica
(B) Portia
(C) Nerissa
(D) Rosalind
ANSWER: A
Q.37) What You Will is the subtitle of……
(A) Much Ado About Nothing
(B) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ANSWER: C
Q.38) Miranda in The Tempest is the daughter of………
(A) Caliban
(B) Ferdinand
(C) Prospero
(D) Gonsalo
ANSWER: C
Q.39) Which is the last play that Shakespeare wrote?
(A) Henry V
(B) Hamlet
(C) As You Like It
(D) The Tempest
ANSWER: D
Q.40) Which of Shakespeare’s characters given below comments “Blow winds and crack, your cheeks””
(A) Hamlet
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) King Lear
(D) Othello
ANSWER: C
Q.41) is the daughter of Count Francesco in The Cenci
(A) Elizabeth
(B) Margaret
(C) Mary Anne
(D) Beatrice
ANSWER: D
Q.42) The Defence of Poetry is written by…………
(A) Coleridge
(B) Shelley
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Keats
ANSWER: B
Q.43) The source of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Prometheus Bound written by
(A) Aeschylus
(B) Virgil
(C) Petrarch
(D) Boccaccio
ANSWER: A
Q.44) commented about Browning, “a more intense and morbid self-consciousness than l ever knew in any sane human being”
(A) John Ruskin
(B) Robert Southey
(C) John Forster
(D) J S Mill
ANSWER: D
Q.45) The source of Tennyson’s The Lotos-Eaters was taken from………
(A) Reflections
(B) Hyperion
(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) The Odyssey
ANSWER: D
Q.46) Who are the Brangwen sisters in D H Lawrence’ s Women in Love?
(A) Ursula and Diana
(B) Gudrun and Ursula
(C) Gudrun and Diana
(D) Diana and Marian
ANSWER: B
Q.47) One among the following is not a character in Animal Farm
(A) Napoleon
(B) Snowball
(C) Boxer
(D) Victor
ANSWER: D
Q.48) In which book does James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus reappear as one of the principal characters?
(A) Finnegans Wake
(B) Ulysses
(C) Dubliners
(D) Exiles
ANSWER: B
Q.49) Whose words are these in the play Riders to the Sea?
…No man at all can be living forever, and we must be satisfied”
(A) Nora
(B) Cathleen
(C) Bartley
(D) Maurya
ANSWER: D
Q.50) Which is the play which was not written by Beckett?
(A) Waiting for Godot
(B) Juno and Paycock
(C) Endgame
(D) Happy Days
ANSWER: B
Q.51) Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour was first performed in 1598 by……
(A) Marston and Dekker
(B) Lord Chamberlain’s Men
(C) Samuel Pepy’s Men
(D) Roger Ascham’s Men
ANSWER: B
Q.52) One among the following is not a comedy
(A) Volpone
(B) Epicoene
(C) Bartholomew Fair
(D) The London Merchant
ANSWER: D
Q.53) Who is Isabella´s lover in Edward the Second?
(A) Edward II
(B) Mortimer
(C) Gaveston
(D) Dispenser
ANSWER: B
Q.54) One among the following was not written by Marlowe
(A) Richard II
(B) Edward II
(C) Tamburlaine
(D) The Jew of Malta
ANSWER: A
Q.55) ………… is the ugly beast in Doctor Faustus?
(A) Volksbuch
(B) Dobson
(C) Mephistophilis
(D) Doddridge
ANSWER: C
Q.56) Which one of the following is not a work of John Donne?
(A) Pseudo-Martyr
(B) Tribute to the Angels
(C) Ignatius His Conclave
(D) Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
ANSWER: B
Q.57) The third volume of Bacon’s Counsels Civil and Moral published in 1625 contained……… essays
(A) 48
(B) 26
(C) 36
(D) 58
ANSWER: D
Q.58) …………is the protagonist of Amoretti
(A) Arthur Clough
(B) Elizabeth Boyle
(C) Susan Hill
(D) Ebenezer Elliott
ANSWER: B
Q.59) George Herbert’s biography by …… was first published in 1670
(A) Isaak Walton
(B) Horace Walpole
(C) William Cowper
(D) Nicholas Ferrac
ANSWER: A
Q.60) Hero and Leander the narrative poem was written by…………
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Jonson
(C) Marlowe
(D) Greene
ANSWER: C
Q.61) Which is the setting for Measure for Measure?
(A) Venice
(B) Vienna
(C) Cyprus
(D) Syracuse
ANSWER: B
Q.62) How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
(A) 154
(B) 155
(C) 153
(D) 152
ANSWER: A
Q.63) In which Shakespearean play do these lines appear?
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more”
(A) Hamlet
(B) Macbeth
(C) Othello
(D) Julius Caesar
ANSWER: B
Q.64) Who said the following lines?
“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting
That appetite may sicken and so die”
(A) Hamlet
(B) Gertrude
(C) Duke Orsino
(D) Jacques
ANSWER: C
Q.65) Whose words are these?
“I am a man more sinned against than sinning’
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Othello
(D) Julius Caesar
ANSWER: A
Q.66) Which historical event influenced the plot of Macbeth?
(A) Gunpowder Plot
(B) Vienna Plot
(C) Gloucester Plot
(D) Ferdinand Plot
ANSWER: A
Q.67) In which play do you find the character Touchstone?
(A) Hamlet
(B) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(C) Romeo and Juliet
(D) As You Like It
ANSWER: D
Q.68) Which of these fairies did not appear in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
(A) Pease blossom
(B) Cobweb
(C) Titania
(D) Ariel
ANSWER: D
Q.69) Which Shakespearean character said, “Lord, what fools these mortals be?
(A) Falstaff
(B) Puck
(C) Oberon
(D) Mustardseed
ANSWER: B
Q.70) Who wrote the book the title of which is taken from this line in Shakespeare’s play “O brave new world that such people in it”
(A) William Faulkner
(B) Aldous Huxley
(C) John Steinbeck
(D) Joseph Conrad
ANSWER: B
Q.71) Keats introduced the concept…… to English Literature
(A) Negative capability
(B) Objective correlative
(C) Sprung rhythm
(D) Dissociation of sensibility
ANSWER: A
Q.72) The Prelude begins and ends with Wordsworth’s childhood at
(A) Cambridge
(B) Cumberland
(C) Salisbury
(D) North Wales
ANSWER: B
Q.73) In which poem does Arnold say “Ah, love, let us be true to one another”
(A) The Scholar Gipsy
(B) Sohrab and Rustum
(C) Dover Beach
(D) Thyrsis
ANSWER: C
Q.74) in which novel written by Hardy does the character Angel Clare appear?
(A) Far from the Madding Crowd
(B) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
(C) Under the Greenwood Tree
(D) The Mayor of Casterbridge
ANSWER: B
Q.75) which of the following is not Dr. Johnson´s work?
(A) The Rambler
(B) A dictionary of the English Language
(C) The Vanity of Human Wishes
(D) The condition of England
ANSWER: D
Q.76) Hopkins” The Wreck of the Deutschland was dedicated to……
(A) St. Buena
(B) Franciscan Nuns
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Watson Dixon
ANSWER: B
Q.77) The name Elia is associated with…………
(A) Hazlitt
(B) Lamb
(C) De Quincey
(D) Bacon
ANSWER: B
Q.78) Who is not a character in Jane Austen’s Emma?
(A) Williams
(B) Weston
(C) Knightley
(D) Harriet
ANSWER: A
Q.79) Which book is not written by Mary Anne Evans?
(A) Adam Bede
(B) The Mill on the Floss
(C) The Spanish Gypsy
(D) Mansfield Park
ANSWER: D
Q.80) A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is the subtitle of Oscar Wilde’s play……
(A) Lady Windermere’s Fan
(B) A Woman of No Importance
(C) The Importance of Being Ernest
(D) The Duchess of Padua
ANSWER: C
Q.81) One of the following books was written by V.S. Naipaul
(A) The Mimic Men
(B) Black and White
(C) A Hot Country
(D) Beyond the Dragon’s Mouth
ANSWER: A
Q.82) One of the following books written by Rushdie is not a novel
(A) Shame
(B) The Satanic Verses
(C) imaginary Homelands
(D) Midnight’s Children
ANSWER: C
Q.83) The name of the ship in Melville’s Moby Dick is……
(A) The Whale
(B) Pequod
(C) Ishmael
(D) Ahab
ANSWER: B
Q.84) ……… is Whitman’s elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln
(A) Goodbye My Fancy
(B) November Boughs
(C) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
(D) Sands at Seventy
ANSWER: C
Q.85) Who is the protagonist in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye?
(A) Pecola Breedlove
(B) Sula Peace
(C) Nel Wright
(D) Milkman Dead
ANSWER: A
Q.86) Who wrote the poem Where the Mind is Without Fear?
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Langston Hughes
(C) Maya Angelou
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
ANSWER: D
Q.87) In which poem has Kamala Das said:
“I speak three languages, write in
two dream in one’
(A) My Grandmother’s House
(B) An Introduction
(C) Summer in Calcutta
(D) The Old Playhouse
ANSWER: B
Q.88) One of the following is not a practitioner of Confessional Poetry
(A) Robert Lowell
(B) Philip Larkin
(C) Anne Sexton
(D) Sylvia Plath
ANSWER: B
Q.89) ……….is written by J M Coetzee
(A) Arrow of God
(B) Things Fall Apart
(C) The Flute and The Drum
(D) Life and Times of Michael K
ANSWER: D
Q.90) The protagonist in Margaret Laurence ‘s The Stone Angel is ……………
(A) Hagar Shipley
(B) Morag Gunn
(C) Rachel Cameron
(D) Stacey Cameron
ANSWER: A
Q.91) *Childhood’ contains a……
(A) Derivational suffix
(B) Inflectional suffix
(C) Derivational prefix
(D) Inflectional prefix
ANSWER: A
Q.92) The policeman’s attempt to catch the criminal seemed like……
(A) A wild goose chase
(B) Jack of all trades
(C) In the good books
(D) Tooth and nail
ANSWER: A
Q.93) Give one word for:’ speaking in an irreverent way about God or sacred things’
(A) Bigamy
(B) Dilettante
(C) Dipsomania
(D) Blasphemy
ANSWER: D
Q.94) The diphthong is in………
(A) Cure
(B) Fear
(C) Pure
(D) Wear
ANSWER: B
Q.95) Identify the vowel in the word ‘pack
(A) e
(B) a
(C) i
(D) o
ANSWER:-D
Q.96) The word ‘journalism’ contains……… syllables
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
ANSWER: C
Q.97) ………is the antonym of ‘pragmatic
(A) Practical
(B) Idealistic
(C) Figurative
(D) Duplicate
ANSWER: B
Q.98) was composed during the Old English Period
(A) The Canterbury Tales
(B) Gorboduc
(C) Beowulf
(D) Roget’s Thesaurus
ANSWER: C
Q.99) …… contributed to the formation of new words during the Middle English Period
(A) Celtic and Old Norse
(B) Latin and French
(C) Urdu and Iro Quoian
(D) Latin and German
ANSWER: B
Q.100) The Modern English equivalent of ‘heofonum’ is……
(A) History
(B) Historian
(C) Heaven
(D) Functional
ANSWER: C
Q.101) ………..was not a poet during the Middle English Period
(A) Thomas Malory
(B) Philip Sidney
(C) William Langland
(D) Geoffrey Chaucer
ANSWER: A
Q.102) In language teaching ESP means……
(A) English for Social Purpose
(B) English for Scientific Programme
(C) English for Specific Purposes
(D)English for Specific Programme
ANSWER: A
Q.103) The Silent Way Method” was created by……
(A) Stephen Krashen
(B) Caleb Gattegno
(C) Christopher Brumfit
(D) Dell Hymes
ANSWER: A
Q.104) TPR refers to ………
(A) Teaching Physical Response
(B) Total Potential Response
(C) Teaching Potential Response
(D) Total Physical Response
ANSWER: A
Q.105) I noticed…… I had changed my address
(A) With the police that
(B) In the police that
(C) The police that
(D) To the police that
ANSWER: A
Q.106) The Printing press was introduced in England by Caxton in ………
(A) 1473
(B) 1474
(C) 1475
(D) 1476
ANSWER: A
Q.107)” Quack’ and’ meow´ are…… words
(A) Blending
(B) Acronym
(C) Onomatopoeia
(D) Ellipses
ANSWER: A
Q.108) In 1066 at the Battle of Hastings the…… defeated the English and established their rule over England
(A) Normans
(B) Germans
(C) Italians
(D) Romans
ANSWER: A
Q.109) One among the following is not associated with Black Feminism
(A) Barbara Smith
(B) Elaine Showalter
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Toni Morrison
ANSWER: A
Q.110) Gender Trouble is the contribution of …………
(A) Simon de Beauvoir
(B) Kate Millet
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft
(D) Judith Butler
ANSWER: A
Q.111) ………… is associated with Narratology
(A) Gerard Genette
(B) Mathew Arnold
(C) T S Eliot
(D) Jacques Derrida
ANSWER: A
Q.112) Suggestopedia was developed by………
(A) Noam Chomsky
(B) Georgi Lazanov
(C) David Nunan
(D) Christopher Candlin
ANSWER: A
Q.113) Audio-Lingual Method was also known as……
(A) Grammar Translation Method
(B) Direct Method
(C) Army Method
(D) Bilingual! Method
ANSWER: A
Q.114) ………… is least emphasized in Communicative Language Teaching
(A) Information Gap
(B) Role Play
(C) Structure of Language
(D) Communicative Competence
ANSWER: A
Q.115) LAD means……
(A) Language Acquisition Device
(B) Learning Ability Device
(C) Learning Activity Design
(D) Language Acquisition Design
ANSWER: A
Q.116) …….was an influential force in archetypal criticism
(A) Richards
(B) Jung
(C) Tate
(D) Freud
ANSWER: A
Q.117) The Archeology of Knowledge is a work by……
(A) Leavis
(B) Eliot
(C) Foucault
(D) Stuan Hall
ANSWER: A
Q.118) ………..is associated with Social Constructivist Theory
(A) Vygotsky
(B) Piaget
(C) Chomsky
(D) Watson
ANSWER: A
Q.119) Fanon´s The Wretched of the Earth deals with the……
(A) Syrian Struggle
(B) Afro-American Struggle
(C) Algerian Struggle
(D) Alaskan Struggle
ANSWER: A
Q.120) Who wrote Post colonialism and English Studies in India?
(A) Gauri Viswanathan
(B) Gayatri Spivak
(C) Edward Said
(D) Leela Gandhi
ANSWER: A
