Kerala Set 7 (2017)
June 20, 2023 2023-12-18 16:07Kerala Set 7 (2017)
Kerala Set 7 (2017)
Q.1) William Langland wrote his poems in the…… dialect
(A) West Midland
(B) Northern
(C) East Midland
(D) South East
ANSWER: A
Q.2) Thomas More’s Utopia can be described as…………
(A) Fiction
(B) A political pamphlet
(C) Neither of the above
(D) Both of the above
ANSWER: A
Q.3) Which of the following is not a work by Edmund Spenser?
(A) Faerie Queene
(B) Venus and Adonis
(C) Prothalamion
(D) Amoretti
ANSWER: B
Q.4) Match the following
(1) Philip Sidney
(2) Christopher Marlowe
(3) Francis bacon
(4) Thomas Hobbes
(a) Leviathan
(b) Novum Organum
(c) The Defence of Poesy
(d) University Wits
(A) (1)-d, (2)-c, (3)-a, (4)-b
(B) (1)-c, (2)-d, (3)-a, (4)-b
(C) (1)-b, (2)-c, (3)-a, (4)-d
(D) (1)-c, (2)-d, (3)-b, (4)-a
ANSWER: D
Q.5) ………… is generally considered the first tragedy in English:
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Spanish Tragedy
(C) Ralph Roister Doister
(D) Twelfth Night
ANSWER: A
Q.6) Match the following
List I
(1) Spanish Tragedy
(2) Everyman in his Humour
(3) Duchess of Malfi
(4) Blank Verse
List II
(a) John Webster
(b) Staple of English Tragedy
(c) Ben Jonson
(d) Introduced revenge motif
Codes:
(A) (1)-b, (2)-d, (3)-b, (4)-a
(B) (1)-d, (2)-a, (3)-b, (4)-c
(C) (1)-c, (2)-a, (3)-d, (4)-b
(D) (1)-d, (2)-c, (3)-a, (4)-b
ANSWER: D
Q.7) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) Women were not allowed to act on the Elizabethan stage
(2) Elizabethan dramatic troupes generally had patrons
(3) Elizabethan stages had no drop curtains
(4) Elizabethan plays were performed in natural light
Codes:
(A) I and (2) only are true
(B) 1, (3) and (4) only are true
(C) 1, (2) and (4)only are true
(D) All the statements are true
ANSWER: D
Q.8) The plots of several Shakespearean plays were taken from…………
(A) Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
(B) Holinshed’s Chronicles
(C) Greek Tragedies
(D) Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems
ANSWER: B
Q.9) The Shakespearean sonnet has the rhyme scheme
(A) abbaabbacdccdc
(B) abbabccbdefdef
(C) abbacdcdefefgg
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: D
Q.10) The term’ metaphysical’ was coined by………… to describe Seventeenth Century English poets like John Donne
(A) Dr Samuel Johnson
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) John Dryden
(D) Francis Bacon
ANSWER: A
Q.11) Put the following in their correct chronological order
(1) Restoration
(2) Paradise Lost
(3) Pilerim’s Progress
(4) Closing down of English play houses by Puritans
Codes:
(A). (1) (3) (4) (2)
(B). (1) (2) (4) (3)
(C). (1) (2) (3) (4)
(D). (4) (1) (2) (3)
ANSWER: D
Q.12) Paradise Los is structured as……
(A) Six Books
(B) Ten Books
(C) Eight Books
(D) Seven Books
ANSWER: D
Q.13) A Short View of the Profanity and Licentiousness of the English Stage by Jeremiah Colle was published in………
(A) 1642
(B) 1698
(C) 1660
(D) 1650
ANSWER: B
Q.14) Match the followings
List I
(1) Coffee Houses
(2) Satinical Verses
(3) Early Colonial Narratives
(4) Whigs
List II
(a) Robinson Crusoe
(b) Circulation of periodicals
(c) Liberal ideas
(d) Dryden and Pope
Codes:
(A) (1)-b, (2)-d, (3)-a, (4)-c
(B) (1)-c, (2)-d, (3)-a, (4)-b
(C) (1)-d, (2)-c, (3)-a, (4)-b
(D) (1)-a, (2)-d, (3)-a, (4)-b
ANSWER: A
Q.15) The Country Wife is a play by………
(A) J B Sheridan
(B) John Dryden
(C) William Wycherley
(D) Alexander Pope
ANSWER: C
Q.16) Place the following in their correct chronological sequence
(1) The Great Fire of London
(2) Establishment of the first Coffee House in London
(3) The Restoration
(4) Publication of The Tetler and The Spectator
Codes:
(A) 2, 3, 1,(4)
(B) 3, 1, 2,4
(C) 4, 3, 1,(2)
(D) 1, 4,2,(3)
ANSWER: A
Q.17) Dunciad is a mock heroic poem by…………
(A) John Dryden
(B) John Bunyan
(C) Oliver Cromwell
(D) Oliver Goldsmith
ANSWER: A
Q.18) Laputa is…………
(A) A flying island in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The capital of a country Swift’s Battle of the Books
(C) The name given by Swift to a political system
(D) A character in Swift’s Gulliver s Travels
ANSWER: A
Q.19) Match the following
List I
(1) Pamela
(2) Henry Fielding
(3) Lawrence Stern
(4) The Adventures of Roderick Random
List II
(a) Picaresque novel
(b) Epistolary novel
(c) An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews
(d) Tristram Shandy
Codes:
(A) (1)-a, (2)-d, (3)-c, (4)-b
(B) (1)-c, (2)-a, (3)-d, (4)-b
(C) (1)-b, (2)-c, (3)-d, (4)-a
(D) (1)-c, (2)-d, (3)-b, (4)-a
ANSWER: C
Q.20) Give the correct chronological sequence of the following
(1) Romantic Poetry
(2) Neo-Classical Poetry
(3) Metaphysical Poetry
(4) Transition Poetry
Codes:
(A) 1,2,3,(4)
(B) 3,2,1,4
(C) 3,2,4,(1)
(D) 4,2,1,3
ANSWER: C
Q.21) Reli Ques of Ancient English Poetry is…………
(A) A collection of popular songs and ballads
(B) A collection of Old English poetry
(C) A study of Old English poetry
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
Q.22) Lyrical Ballads was published in………
(A) 1798
(B) 1793
(C) 1789
(D) 1814
ANSWER: A
Q.23) The line “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” is from;
(A) Ode to A Nightingale
(B) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(C) Ode to the West Wind
(D) Ode to Autumn
ANSWER: B
Q.24) Put the following in correct chronological sequence:
(1) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(2) The Necessity of Atheism
(3) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
(4) Ode on a Grecian Um
Codes:
(A) 1,3,4,(2)
(B) 1,4,2,3
(C) 2,4,3,(1)
(D) 4,1,(3)2
ANSWER: C
Q.25) Match the following
List I
(1) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(2) The Old English Baron
(3) Frankenstcin
(4) The Castle of Otranto
List II
(a) Mary Shelley
(b) Horace Walpole
(c) Ann Radcliffe
(d) Clara Reeve
Codes:
(A) 1-d,2-a,3-c,4-a
(B) 1-b,2-c,3-d,4-a
(C) 1-c,2-d,3-a,4-b
(D) 1-d,2-b,3-a,4-b
ANSWER: C
Q.26) The Heart of Midlothian is a novel by…………
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B) Mary Shelley
(C) Jane Austen
(D) Sir Walter Scott
ANSWER: D
Q.27) Match the following
List I
(1) Essays of Elia
(2) Force Thoughts on Public Affairs
(3) The Examiner
(4) Confessions of an Opium Eater
List II
(a) Thomas De Quince
(b) Leigh Hunt
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) William Hazlitt
Codes:
(A) 1-b,2-d,3-a,4-c
(B) 1-c,2-a,3-d,4-b
(C) 1-b,2-d,3-b,4-a
(D) 1-d,2-b,3-a,4•c
ANSWER: C
Q.28) The following is not a work by JS Mill:
(A) The Subjection of Women
(B) Utilitarianism
(C) Considerations on Representative Government
(D) The Subjugation of Women
ANSWER: D
Q.29) India passed into direct administration by the British Government in………
(A) 1837
(B) 1867
(C) 1858
(D) 1903
ANSWER: C
Q.30) Match the following
List I
(1) Browning
(2) Mathew Arnold
(3) Tennyson
(4) Thomas Hood
List II
(a) The Charge of the Light Brigade
(b) The Grammarian’s Funeral
(c) I Remember, I Remember
(d) The Scholar Gypsy
Codes:
(A) 1-d,2-a, 3-b,4-c
(B) 1-c,2-a,3-d,4-b
(C) 1-b,2-d,3-a,4-c
(D) 1-a,2-d,3-c,4-b
ANSWER: C
Q.31) Who among the following was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Movement?
(A) Mathew Arnold
(B) D G Rossetti
(C) Charles Kingsley
(D) None of these
ANSWER: B
Q.32) Who among the following was opposed to the core principles of Aestheticism?
(A) D C Rossetti
(B) Walter peter
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Oscar Wilde
ANSWER: C
Q.33) Match the following
List I
(a) Culture and Anarchy
(b) On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
(c) The Doctrine of the Real Presence
(d) The Present Position of Catholics in England
List II
(1) John Henry Newman
(2) Matthew Arnold
(3) Thomas Carlyle
(4) E B Pusey
Codes:
(A) (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-(1)
(B) (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-2
(C) (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-1, (d)-2
(D) (a)-1, (b)-2, (c)-4, (d)-3
ANSWER: A
Q.34) Lytton Strachey wrote a collection of biographical sketches titled………
(A) Eminent Victorians
(B) Sartor Resartus
(C) Unto the Last
(D) None of these
ANSWER: A
Q.35) Put the following events in Victorian Britain in the correct chronological sequence
(1) The Second Reform Act which extended voting rights
(2) The Education Act while made primary education compulsory
(3) Introduction of the Uniform Penny Post
(4) Compulsory Vaccination Act
Codes:
(A) 3,4,2,(1)
(B) 4,1,2,3
(C) 3,2,4,(1)
(D) 2,1,4,3
ANSWER: A
Q.36) Match the following
List I
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) W M Thackeray
(c) Anne Bronte
(d) Thomas Hardy
List II
(1) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
(2) A Tale of Two Cities
(3) Under the Greenwood Tree
(4) Vanity Fair
Codes:
(A) (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2
(B) (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-1
(C) (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-1, (d)-3
(D) (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3
ANSWER: D
Q.37) The following were Victorian Women novelists
(A) Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen
(B) Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte and George Eliot
(C) Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen and George Eliot
(D) None of the above
ANSWER: B
Q.38) The Quintessence of Ibsenism is a study of Ibsen’s drama by…………
(A) Bernard Shaw
(B) John Ruskin
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Matthew Arnold
ANSWER: A
Q.39) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) D G Rossetti was a Pre-Raphaelite poet
(2) The sprung rhythm is associated with the poetry of G M Hopkins
(3) G M Hopkins’ poetry marked a transition in sensibility
(4) W B Yeats’ early poetry was linked to the Celtic Revival
Codes:
(A) Statement 1, (2) and (4) are true
(B) Statements I and (2) are true
(C) Statements 1, (3) and (4)are true
(D) All the statements are true
ANSWER: B
Q.40) Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize for literature in………
(A) 1888
(B) 1903
(C) 1867
(D) 1907
ANSWER: D
Q.41) Put the following in their correct chronological sequence:
(1) The landslide electoral victory of the Liberals under Lloyd George
(2) Women’s Suffrage bill discussed in British Parliament
(3) Founding of the Women’s Social and Political Union
(4) End of Edward VII’s region
Codes:
(A) 3,2,4,1
(B) 2,1,4,3
(C) 3,2,1,4
(D) 4,1,3,2
ANSWER: C
Q.42) The following was not a war poet:
(A) Rupert Brooke
(B) Siegfried Sassoon
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) P G Wodehouse
ANSWER: D
Q.43) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) MacSpaunday refers to a group of British poets of the 1930s
(2) The group included W H Auden Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and Cecil Day Lewis
(3) The group was known for its espousal of Imagism
(4) The members owed allegiance to contemporary Left-wing politics
Codes:
(A) Statements 1 and (2) only are true
(B) Statements 1,(2) and (3)only are true
(C) Statements 1, (2) and (4) only are true
(D) All the statements are true
ANSWER: C
Q.44) Dylan Thomas’s poetry is noted for its
(A) Surrealist imagery
(B) Ornate diction
(C) Overtly political themes
(D) Satire
ANSWER: A
Q.45) Arrange the following works of T S Eliot in correct chronological sequence
(1) Preludes
(2) The Wasteland
(3) The Hollow Men
(4) Murder in the Cathedral
Codes:
(A) 1,2,3,4
(B) 1,4,2,3
(C) 1,3,2,4
(D) 1,4,3,2
ANSWER: A
Q.46) ………… is a verse play by Christopher Fry
(A) The Lady is not for Burning
(B) The Cocktail Party
(C) John Bull’s Other Island
(D) None of these
ANSWER: A
Q.47) Match the following;
List I
(a) Churchgoing
(b) My Sad Captions
(c) The Spectator
(d) New Lines
List II
(1) Thom Gunn
(2) JD Scott
(3) Robert Con Quest
(4) Philip Larkin
Codes:
(A). (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-4
(B). (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-3
(C). (a)-1, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-2
(D). (a)-1, (b)-2, (c)-2, (d)-4
ANSWER: B
Q.48) Which of the following poets is of Norther Irish Extraction?
(A) Seamus Heaney
(B) Andrew Motion
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Robert Burns
ANSWER: A
Q.49) Which of the following can be described as a thinker and social critic?
(A) Max Beerbohm
(B) A G Gardiner
(C) Bertrand Russell
(D) Thomas Hardy
ANSWER: C
Q.50) Which of the following statement(s)is/are true?
(1) Virginia Woolf was an exponent of the stream of consciousness in fiction
(2) Virginia Woolf can be described as a feminist writer and critic
(3) Virginia Woolf can be described as High Modernist
(4) Virginia Woolf wrote a number of novels in the epistolary mode
Codes:
(A) Statements I and (2)are true
(B) Statements 1, (2)and (4)are true
(C) Statements (1) (3) and (4)are true
(D) Only statement I is true
ANSWER: A
Q.51) The following is not a novel by D H Lawrence
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) The Rainbow
(C) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(D) To the Lighthouse
ANSWER: D
Q.52) James Joyce’s Dubliners is……
(A) A collection of essays
(B) A collection of short stories
(C) A memoir
(D) A travelogue
ANSWER: B
Q.53) Match the following:
List I
(1) Animal Farm
(2) Down and Out in London and Paris
(3) Homage to Catalonia
(4) Brave New World
List II
(a) Historical narrative
(b) Science fiction
(c) Political allegory
(d) Memoir
Codes:
(A) (1)-b, (2)-d, (3)-a, (4)-c
(B) (1)-d, (2)-c, (3)-b, (4)-a
(C) (1)-d, (2)-c, (3)-a, (4)-b
(D) (1)-c, (2)-d, (3)-a, (4)-b
ANSWER: D
Q.54) Match the following
List I
(1) The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
(2) Young Shoulders
(3) Lucky Jim
(4) Rites of Passage
List II
(a) William Golding
(b) Kingsley Amis
(c) Alan Sillitoe
(d) John Wain
Codes:
(A) (1)-b, (2)-d, (3)-a, (4)-c
(B) (1)-d, (2)-c, (3)-a, (4)-b
(C) (1)-c, (2)-d, (3)-b, (4)-a
(D) (1)-c, (2)-a, (3)-d, (4)-b
ANSWER: C
Q.55) The following play of Bernard Shaw has Napoleon as the protagonist;
(A) Arms and the Man
(B) The Man of Density
(C) The Applecart
(D) Man, and Superman
ANSWER: B
Q.56) …………… played an active role in the Celtic Revival:
(A) W B Yeats
(B) James Joyce
(C) Seamus Heaney
(D) Bernard Shaw
ANSWER: A
Q.57) The expression “Angry Young men” was used in the 1950s to describe
(A) Young writers who were disillusioned with traditional British society
(B) British Pacifist writers who opposed the militarization of Europe
(C) British postwar Leftist writers
(D) Conservative writers of the British society
ANSWER: A
Q.58) Match the following
List I
(a) Endgame
(b) Lear
(c) The Caretaker
(d) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
List II
(1) Tom Stoppard
(2) Samuel Beckett
(3) Harold Pinter
(4) Edward Bond
Codes:
(A) (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-2, (d)-1
(B) (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-3, (d)-1
(C) (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-1
(D) (a)-3, (b)-2, (c)-4, (d)-1
ANSWER: B
Q.59) …………received the Nobel Prize for Literature
(A) Jeanette Winterson
(B) Iris Murdoch
(C) Doris Lessing
(D) Kingsley Amis
ANSWER: C
Q.60) Which of the following is a novel by Hanif Kureishi?
(A) The Kite Runner
(B) Mornings in Jenin
(C) The Buddha of Suburbia
(D) Vanity Bagh
ANSWER: C
Q.61) …… was one of the founding fathers of Transcendentalism
(A) Herman Melville
(B) Henry David Thoreau
(C) Henry James
(D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
ANSWER: B
Q.62) One of Walt Whitman’s poems about Abraham Lincoln is titled………
(A) Song of Myself
(B) Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
(C) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
(D) Song of the Open Road
ANSWER: C
Q.63) Match the following:
List I
(a) In a Station of the Metro
(b) Buffalo Bill
(c) Sunday Morning
(d) For the Union Dead
List II
(1) Robert Lowell
(2) Wallace Stevens
(3) e e cummings
(4) Ezra Pound
Codes:
(A) (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-2
(B) (a)-3, (b)-2, (c)-4, (d)-1
(C) (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-2, (d)-1
(D) (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-1
ANSWER: C
Q.64) Match the following:
List I
(a) The House of the Seven Gables
(b) Billy Bud
(c) Huckleberry Finn
(d) The Ambassadors
List II
(1) Mark Twain
(2) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(3) Henry James
(4) Herman Melville
Codes:
(A) (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3
(B) (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-2, (d)-1
(C) (a)-1, (b)-3, (c)-2, (d)-4
(D) (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-2
ANSWER: A
Q.65) Light in August is a novel by………
(A) Saul Bellow
(B) Ernest Hemingway
(C) John Steinbeck
(D) William Faulkner
ANSWER: D
Q.66) Match the following
List I
(a) Invisible Man
(b) Color Purple
(c) Raisin’ in the Sun
(d) The Dutchman
List II
(1) Alice Walker
(2) Lorraine Hansberry
(3) Amiri Baraka
(4) Ralph Ellison
Codes:
(A) (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2
(B) (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-3
(C) (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-1
(D) (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-3, (d)-1
ANSWER: B
Q.67) …… wrote the long poem Savitri
(A) Michael Madhusudan Dutt
(B) Toru Dutt
(C) Henry Derozio
(D) Shri Aurobindo
ANSWER: D
Q.68) Match the following;
List I
(a) A River
(b) Dance of the Eunuchs
(c) The Night of the Scorpion
(d) Heart of Ruin
List II
(1) Nissim Ezekiel
(2) A K Ramanujan
(3) Arun Kolatkar
(4) Kamala Das
Codes:
(A) (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3
(B) (a)-1, (b)-4, (c)-3, (d)-2
(C) (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2
(D) (a)-1, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-3
ANSWER: A
Q.69) The following is not a novel by Mulk Raj Anand
(A) Seven Summers
(B) The Dark Room
(C) Two Leaves and a Bud
(D) Untouchable
ANSWER: C
Q.70) Which of the following authors has not won the Booker Prize?
(A) Salman Rushdie
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) Kiran Desai
ANSWER: C
Q.71) Spartacus is a play by………
(A) Asif Currimbhoy
(B) Badal Sircar
(C) Manjula Padmanabhan
(D) Girish Karnad
ANSWER: B
Q.72) Match the following
List I
(a) Christopher Okigbo
(b) Wole Soyinka
(c) Chinua Achebe
(d) NgugiWaThiong’o
List II
(1) The Road
(2) Anthills of the Savannahs
(3) Decolonizing the Mind
(4) Silences
Codes
(A) (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-3
(B) (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-2
(C) (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-4
(D) (a)-1, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-2
ANSWER: A
Q.73) Athol Fugard is a…………
(A) Nigerian Poet
(B) South African playwright and director
(C) Senegalese fictionist
(D) Zambian critic
ANSWER: B
Q.74) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) Frantz Fanon is a postcolonial writer
(2) Frantz Fanon discusses the collaboration of the colonizers with the colonized
(3) Frantz Fanon espouses cultural hybridity as an ideal
(4) Frantz Fanon discuses identity politics
Codes;
(A) Statements 1, (3) and (4) only are true
(B) Statements 1, (2) and (4) only are true
(C) Statements (1) and (2) only are true is
(D) All the statements are true
ANSWER: B
Q.75) The Caribbean writer……… of Indian origin
(A) V S Naipaul
(B) George Lamming
(C) Derek Walcott
(D) Edward Brathwaite
ANSWER: A
Q.76) Match the following:
List I
(a) Sinclair Ross
(b) Thomson Highway
(c) Margaret Lawrence
(d) EJ Pratt
List II
(1) Rez Sisters
(2) The Stone Angel
(3) As for Me and My House
(4) The Witches’ Brew
Codes;
(A) (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-1
(B) (a)-1, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-3
(C) (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-4
(D) (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-2
ANSWER: C
Q.77) Such a Long Journey is a novel by
(A) Michael Ondatje
(B) Rohinton Mistry
(C) Claire Harris
(D) Joy Kogawa
ANSWER: B
Q.78) Which of the following is not a ‘Bush Poet’?
(A) Judith Wright
(B) Les Murray
(C) David Campbell
(D) A D Hope
ANSWER: D
Q.79) Voss is a novel by
(A) David Malouf
(B) Sally Morgan
(C) Patrick White
(D) David Williamson
ANSWER: C
Q.80) Match the following:
List I
(a) Lakdasa Wickramasinghe
(b) Maki Kureishi
(c) Pakistani poet
(d) Taslima Nasreen
List II
(1) Recf
(2) Lajja
(3) Romesh Gunasekhara
(4) Sri Lankan bilingual poet
Codes:
(A) (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-1, (d)-3
(B) (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-3
(C) (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-3, (d)-1
(D) (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-1, (d)-2
ANSWER: D
Q.81) Match the following
List I
(a) Plosives
(b) Nasals
(c) Affricates
(d) Semi-vowels
List II
(1) Gliding articulation
(2) English has two of them
(3) Complete closure and explosive release
(4) Closure of the oral passage
Codes:
(A) (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-1
(B) (a)-4, (b)-2, (c)-1, (d)-3
(C) (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3
(D) (a)-2, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-4
ANSWER: A
Q.82) which of the following statements are true ?
(1) English has word stress and sentence stress
(2) English is a stress-timed language
(3) English is a tone language
(4) A Yes/No Question in English is normally uttered with a rising tone
Codes:
(A) Statements 1, (2) and (3) only are true
(B) Statements 1, (2) and (4) only are true
(C) Statements (2) and (3) only are true
(D) All statements are true
ANSWER: B
Q.83) English has……
(A) Suffixes only
(B) Suffixes prefixes and infixes
(C) Suffixes and prefixes
(D) None of these
ANSWER: C
Q.84) The process by which the word ‘pass away got its current sense of ‘ die’ is………
(A) Amelioration
(B) Generalization
(C) Pejoration
(D) Euphemism
ANSWER: D
Q.85) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) The Germanic branch of the Indo-European family has three sub-groups
(2) English belongs to the West Germanic sub-group
(3) Polish belongs 1o the East Germanic sub-group
(4) Swedish and Norwegian belong to the North Germanic sub-group
Codes:
(A) All statement are true
(B) Only statement 1 is true
(C) Statements 2, 3 and 4 only are true
(D) Statements 1, 2 and 4 only are true
ANSWER: D
Q.86) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles were written in the dialect:
(A) Scots
(B) Northumbrian
(C) Kentish
(D) Wessex
ANSWER: D
Q.87) Which of the following statements are true
(1) Middle English is a much less inflected language than Old English
(2) Scots was a dialect of Middle English
(3) Middle English literature was heavily influenced by classical Greek literature
(4) Middle English was decisively influenced by Norman French
Codes:
(A) Statements (1) and (4) only are true
(B) Statements 1, (3) and (4) only are true
(C) Statements 1, (2) and (4) only are true
(D) All the statements are true
ANSWER: A
Q.88) Colonialism influenced English………
(A)Vocabulary
(B) Morphology
(C) Grammar
(D) All of these
ANSWER: A
Q.89) African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a………
(A) Dialect
(B) Pidgin
(C) Creole
(D) None of these
ANSWER: A
Q.90) is one of the authors of The Empire Writes Back
(A) Frantz Fanon
(B) Geoffrey Leech
(C)Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
(D)- Helen Tiffin
ANSWER: D
Q.91) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget were contemporaries
(2)’ Scaffolding’ is a notion related lo the Constructivist approach to learning
(3) Social constructivism conceives of language as a socially mediated phenomenon
(4) Paul Freire is associated with Critical Pedagogy
Codes:
(A) Statements 1, (2) and (3) only are true
(B) Statements 2, (3) and (4) only are true
(C) Only statement (2) is true
(D) All statements are true
ANSWER: D
Q.92) ……… looks at language as skill
(A) Behaviorism
(B) Constructivism
(C) Cognitivism
(D) Structuralism
ANSWER: A
Q.93) Macaulay’s minute on introducing English education in India is dated…………
(A) 1835
(B) 1858
(C) 1815
(D) 1819
ANSWER: A
Q.94) In India, English is………
(A) An official language
(B) A national language
(C) A pidgin language
(D) A semi-official language
ANSWER: A
Q.95) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) The Grammar Translation Method was the most popular method of teaching language the end of the Nineteenth century in Europe
(2) The Direct Method avoids the use of the Mother Tongue in second language teaching
(3) The teacher’s direct intervention is minimal in the Silent Method
(4) Community language learning can be related to social constructivism
Codes:
(A) Statement 1, (2) and (3) only are true
(B) Statement (2) and (3) only are true
(C) Only statement (2) is true
(D) All statements are true
ANSWER: D
Q.96) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) Learning cannot take place without motivation
(2) Learning environment is important in the process of learning
(3) Age is not a factor in learning
(4) Aptitude, not attitude counts in learning
Codes:
(A) All statements are true
(B) Statement (2) alone is true
(C) Statements (1) and (2) alone are true
(D) Statements (3) and (4) alone are true
ANSWER: C
Q.97) A lesson plan is……………
(A) A plan for transacting a lesson
(B) A plan for preparing a lesson
(C) A plan for selecting a lesson
(D) A plan for testing a lesson
ANSWER: A
Q.98) The following is an instance/are instances of the use of ICT in language learning
(A) A discussion on a mobile phone platform
(B) A lecture using a smartboard
(C) Playing an audio file on English pronunciation in the classroom
(D) All of the above
ANSWER: D
Q.99) Match the following
List I
(a) Summative Evaluation
(b) Diagnostic test
(c) Proficiency test
(d) Formative Evaluation
List II
(1) During the course of the programme
(2) Assessing achievement kevels
(3) Assessing learning problems
(4) At the end of the programme
Codes:
(A) (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-2, (d)-1
(B) (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-3, (d)-1
(C) (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-2
(D) (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-4
ANSWER: A
Q.100) Chomsky holds the view that most of language is…………
(A) Innate
(B) Acquired
(C)Constructed
(D) Assimilated
ANSWER: A
Q.101) Match the following
List I
(a) Plato
(b) Aristotle
(c) Horace
(d) Longinus
List II
(1) On the Sublime
(2) Ars Poetica
(3) The Republic
(4) Poetics
Codes:
(A) (a)-2, (b)-4, (c)-1, (d)-3
(B) (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-3, (d)-2
(C) (a)-3, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-1
(D) (a)-3, (b)-2, (c)-1, (d)-4
Q.102) …… was the first to use the expression ‘negative capability
(A) Keats
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
(D) Shelley
Q.103) Which of the following statement(s) is/are true”
(1) Eliot believed that Tradition acted strongly even in poets u ho are considered avant-garde
(2) Eliot asserted that Tradition cannot be taken as a lump
(3) Eliot believed that escape from emotion, not overflow of emotion was a poet’s creed
(4) For Eliot ‘objective correlative` referred to the way emotion is represented
Codes:
(A) Statements 2, (3) and (4) only are true
(B) Statements I and (2) only are true
(C) Only statement I is true
(D) All statements are true
Q.104) According to Cleanth Brooks……… are the most important elements in poetry
(A)Irony and Paradox
(B) Themes and motifs
(C) Imagery and diction
(D) None of these
Q.105) Roman Jacobson is associated with……
(A) Russian Formalism
(B) Translation theory
(C) Structuralism
(D) All of these
Q.106) The concept of ideological state apparatus was formulated by
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Antonio Gramsci
(C) Louis Althusser
(D) Jac Ques Derrida
ANSWER:
Q.107) Which of the following statements are true?
(1) The ‘paradigmatic axis’ conceived by Saussure, is vertical
(2) According to Saussure the relationship between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary
(3) According to Saussure language can be conceived as a system of structures
(4) According to Saussure much of language is innate
Codes:
(A) All the statements are true
(B) Statements 1, (2) and (3) only are true
(C) Statements I and (2) only are true
(D) Statements (3) and (4) only are True
Q.108) The path-breaking book of Freud is titled………
(A) The Interpretation of Dreams
(B) The Political Unconscious
(C) Psychology of the Unconscious
(D) On Narcissism
Q.109) The notion of “pubic sphere” is associated with……………
(A) Fredric Jameson
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Jurgen Habermas
Q.110) The following is not a work by Jac Ques Derrida
(A)Of Grammatology
(B) Writing and Difference
(C) Margins of Philosophy
(D) History of Sexuality
Q.111) Match the following
List I
(a) The Second Sex
(b) A Room of One’s Own
(c) Towards a Feminist Poetics
(d) The Feminine Mystic Que
List II
(1) Betty Friedan
(2) Simone de Beauvoir
(3) Virginia Woolf
(4) Elaine Showalter
Codes:
(A) (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-1
(B) (a)-4, (b)-1, (c)-2, (d)-3
(C) (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-2, (d)-1
(D) (a)-3, (b)-2, (c)-1, (d)-4
Q.112) Which of the following statements are true
(1) Judith Butler asserted that gendered behavior is performance
(2) Judith Butler stated that there are no stable identities
(3) Judith Butler did not accept the distinction between sex and gender
(4) The linguistic construction of ^sex’ is stable, according to Judith Butler
Codes:
(A) Statements l, (2) and (4) only are true
(B)Statements 1, (2) and (3) only are true
(C) Statements I and (2) only are true
(D) All the statements are true
Q.113) Match the following:
List I
(a) Edward Said
(b) Bill Ashcroft
(c) Homi Bhabha
(d) Frantz Fanon
List II
(1) The Wretched of the Earth
(2) Orientalism
(3) The Empire Writes Back
(4) Narration and Narration
Codes:
(A). (a)-2, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-1
(B). (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2
(C). (a)-3, (b)-2, (c)-4, (d)-1
(D). (a)-4, (b)-4, (c)-2, (d)-3
Q.114) New Historicism” and……… are allied critical approaches
(A) Reader Response Theory
(B) Deconstruction
(C) IIS Cultural Materialism
(D) None of these
Q.115) Namdeo Dhasal is a …… Dalit Writer
(A) Gujanti
(B) Marathi
(C) Punjabi
(D) Oriya
Q.116) Match the following:
List I
(1) Theory of Adaptation
(2) Polysystem Theory
(3) The Rewriting-Culture School
(4) Feminist Translation Studies
List II
(a) Sherry Simon
(b) Andre Lefevere
(c) Linda Hutcheon
(d) ltamar Evan-Zohar
Codes:
(A) (1)-d, (2)-b, (3)-a, (4)-c
(B) (1)-a, (2)-c, (3)-b, (4)-d
(C) (1)-a, (2)-d, (3)-b, (4)-c
(D) (1)-c, (2)-d, (3)-b, (4)-a
Q.117) Match the following:
List I
(a) Raymond Williams
(b) Theodor W Adorno
(c) Herbert Marcuse
(d) Stuart Hall
List II
(1) Dialectic of Enlightenment
(2) Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse
(3) Keywords
(4) Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis
Codes:
(A) (a)-4, (b)-3, (c)-1, (d)-2
(B) (a)-1, (b)-3, (c)-4, (d)-2
(C) (a)-3, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-2
(D) (a)-1, (b)-1, (c)-4, (d)-3
Q.118) Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India is a study on environmental issues in India by………
(A) Medha Patkar
(B) Vandana Shiva
(C) Sunderlal Bahuguna
(D) Baba Amte
ANSWER:
Q.119) Dhvanyaloka is a critical treatise by………
(A) Anandavardhana
(B) Kunthaka
(C) Bhamaha
(D) Patanjali
Q.120) The theory of Sphota was formulated by
(A) Patanjali
(B) ‘Bhartrhari
(C) Panini
(D) Bhamaha
