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Kerala Set 9

Q.1) is the first of our really national English poets’

(A) Geoffrey Chaucer

(B) Caedmon

(D) William Langland

ANSWER: A

Q.2) The jolly host of the Tabard Inn was

(A) Harry Bailly

(B) Tom Spencer

(D) John Wood

ANSWER: A

Q.3) Name Chaucer’s contemporary who recorded in spirited narrative the great deeds of Robert Bruce

(A) Wyclif

(B) Robert Manning

(D) John Lydgate

ANSWER: C

Q.4) Who authored Morte D’Arthur?

(A) William Caxton

(B) Sir Thomas Malory

(D) King Edward IV

ANSWER: B

Q.5) The Complete English Bible of Miles Coverdale was published in

(A) 1525

(B) 1539

(D) 1611

ANSWER: C

Q.6) ……was the first English poet to use the unrimed ten-syllabled verse to which the name blank verse is popularly applied

(A) Surrey

(B) Wyatt

(D) Ashcan

ANSWER: A

Q.7) Who is Tottel in Tottel’s_Miscellany?

(A) The writer

(B) The publisher

(D) The editor

ANSWER: B

Q.8) “The morality play, like the miracle play, was didactic; but its characters, instead of being taken from sacred narratives, were………

(A) Personified abstractions

(B) Legendary saints

(D)Animals and birds

ANSWER: A

Q.9) ‘While …… aroused the intellect and the aesthetic faculties,………… awakened the spiritual nature”

(A) Chaucer Spenser

(B) The Renaissance…… the Reformation

(D) None of the above

ANSWER: B

Q.10) Of the twelve books, which Spenser projected in the Faery Queene, how many were Published during his lifetime?

(A) 6

(B) 7

(D) 11

ANSWER: A

Q.11) Which of the following is not ” sonnets in sequences”?

(A) Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella

(B) Daniel’s Delia

(D) Wamer’s Albion’s England

ANSWER: D

Q.12) John Donne was a

(A) Poet and Preacher

(B) Poet and playwright

(D) Preacher and sonneteer

ANSWER: A

Q.13) Of the following who was not the contemporary of Christopher Marlowe?

(A) George Peele

(B) Thomas Kyd

(D) Robert Greene

ANSWER: C

Q.14) John Lyly’s Euphues is…………

(A) A dramatic work

(B) An epic

(D) A prose romance

ANSWER: D

Q.15) Downright Morose Well-bred Subtle, Bertinax Surly Sir Epicure Mammon, are characters in the plays of………

(A) John Ford

(B) Ben Jonson

(D) Oliver Goldsmith

ANSWER: B

Q.16) The names of… are always associated and they did much work in collaboration’

(A) Beaumont and Fletcher

(B) Marlowe and Jonson

(D) Lodge and Nashe

ANSWER: A

Q.17) Who among the following is not a University Wit?

(A) John Lyly

(B) George Peele

(C)Robert Greene

(D) Thomas Middleton

ANSWER: D

Q.18) “Reading maketh a full man: confidence a ready man, and writing an exact man’ Whose words are these?

(A) Francis Bacon

(B) David Lindsay

(D) Roger Bacon

ANSWER: A

Q.19) Who described Bacon as the wisest brightest and meanest of mankind”?

(A) John Dryden

(B) Alexander Pope

(D) Jonathan Swift

ANSWER: B

Q.20) Which translation of the English Bible is described as the greatest of all translations?

(A) The Revised Version

(B)The Revised Standard Version

(D) The New Revised Standard Version

ANSWER: C

Q.21) ‘As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latinas: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage” Who offers this compliment to Shakespeare?

(A) Francis Meres

(B) John Dryden

(D) Matthew Arnold

ANSWER: A

Q.22) Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in

(A) 1604

(B) 1609

(D) 1614

ANSWER: B

Q.23) Which play of Shakespeare begins with the following line: If music be the food of love Play on

(A) The Winter’s Tale

(B) Hamlet

(D) The Tempest

ANSWER: C

Q.24) Which of the following pairs of plays are the earliest plays written by Shakespeare?

(A) The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus

(B) Macbeth, Othello

(D) The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale

ANSWER: A

Q.25) Which three plays, ignored by Meres, were included by the editors of the First Folio in the canon of Shakespeare’s works?

(A) Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus, Henry V

(B)King John, Richard III, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream

(D) Henry VI Part I Part II, Par III

ANSWER: D

Q.26) …… is more of a lyrical monologue than any other play by Shakespeare with the monologue very exquisitely written’

(A) Richard II

(B) Romeo and Juliet

(D)Julius Caesar

ANSWER: A

Q.27) Which critic of Shakespeare divided his dramatic career into four stages?

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Dowden

(D) Saintsbury

ANSWER: B

Q.28) Which literary historian made the following comment?·

Julius Caesar is fine; Coriolanus is admirable; Antony and Cleopatra is superb’

(A) George Sampson

(B) W H Hudson

(D) Emile Legouis

ANSWER: A

Q.29) ……is the most voluminously discussed play ever written; and we may say at once that if people were to read the play itself more often than books about it their minds would be less confused?

(A) Macbeth

(B) Hamlet

(D) King Lear

ANSWER: B

Q.30) Age cannot wither her/Nor custom stale her infinite variety’

Which character is described and in which play?

(A) Cordelia in King Lear

(B) Miranda in The Tempest

(D) None of these

ANSWER: C

Q.31) When was the Third Folio of the Collected Plays of Shakespeare first published?

(A) 1664

(B) 1666

(D) 1672

ANSWER: A

Q.32) Which play of Shakespeare is generally referred to as Shakespeare’s magical swan-song?

(A) The Winter’s Tale

(B) All’s Well that Ends Well

(D) The Tempest

ANSWER: D

Q.33) What is meant by “feminine ending’ in Shakespeare?

(A) An unaccented eleventh syllable

(B) An accented eleventh syllable

(D) An accented tenth syllable

ANSWER: A

Q.34) Which of the following pairs is not Shakespearean?

(A) Othello, Desdemona

(B) Ferdinand, Miranda

(D) De Flores, Beatrice

ANSWER: D

Q.35) Name the author of the most reliable biography of Shakespeare, William Shakespeare A Study of Facts and Problems

(A) Edward Chambers

(B) Geoffrey Bullough

(D) G B Harrison

ANSWER: A

Q.36) The clowning of Dogberry and Verges appears in

(A) The Merchant of Venice

(B) Much Ado about nothing

(D) Twelfth Night

ANSWER: B

Q.37) Name the first editor of Shakespeare

(A) Nicholas Rowe

(B) Alexander Pope

(D) William Warburton

ANSWER: A

Q.38) Who described Hamlet as “an artistic failure”?

(A) L C Knights

(B) T S Eliot

(D) A C Bradley

ANSWER: B

Q.39) Name a popular Indian critic of Shakespeare

(A) C D Narasimhaiah

(B) K Nagarajan

(D) K R Srinivasa Iyengar

ANSWER: D

Q.40) In which tragedy which character describes life as “a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing’

(A) Macbeth, Macbeth

(B) King Lear, Lear

(D) Hamlet, Hamlet

ANSWER: A

Q.41) …… In we have a Puritanism which is political and ecclesiastical as well as spiritual and ethical

(A) L’Allegro

(B) Lvcidas

(D) Comus

ANSWER: B

Q.42) Milton’s Areopagitica was directed against an Order of Parliament which established……

(A) A censorship of books

(B) A curtailment of human rights

(D) A ban of writers’ involvement in politics

ANSWER: A

Q.43) Which book of the Paradise Lost describes the fall of Adam and Eve?

(A) Book 1

(B) Book 2

(D) Book 9

ANSWER: D

Q.44) Who described Milton as our one acknowledged master of “the grand style”?

(A) Matthew Arnold

(B) Joseph Addison

(D) Charles Lamb

ANSWER: A

Q.45) Whose secular poetry was published under the title Hesperides?

(A) Thomas Carew

(B) John Suckling

(D) John Dryden

ANSWER: C

Q.46) ·The Metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavor…… They neither copied nature nor life…… the words of * These are

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Jeremy Taylor

(D) Thomas Hobbes

ANSWER: A

Q.47) Who did John Dryden regard as his masters?

(A) Milton and Spenser

(B) Walter and Denham

(D) Donne and Crashaw

ANSWER: B

Q.48) Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther offers an elaborate argument in favour of

(A) Puritanism

(B) Protestantism

(D) Nationalism

ANSWER: C

Q.49) Who is the author of Hudibras?

(A) Samuel Butler

(B) John Tillotson

(D) John Evelyn

ANSWER: A

Q.50) Christian is the central character in John Bunyan’s

(A) The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

(B) The Holy War

(D) Pilgrim’s Progress

ANSWER: D

Q.51) In which of his writings docs Pope say that “his life was one long disease”?

(A) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

(B) Essay on Criticism

(D) Pastorals

ANSWER: A

Q.52) From writing biographies with real names attached to them it was but a short step to writing biographies with fictitious names ‘Who is the author referred to?

(A) Colley Cibber

(B) Daniel Defoe

(D) Richard Steele

ANSWER: B

Q.53) In which book does Swift describe the voyage to Brobdingnag?

(A) Gulliver’s Travels

(B) A Tale of a Tub

(D) Journal of Stella

ANSWER: A

Q.54) The subtitle of Richardson´s Pamela is

(A) Virtue Honored

(B) Virtue Adored

(D) Vice Punished

ANSWER: C

Q.55) “The paths of glory lead but to the grave’ is a line from Gray’s

(A) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

(B) The Progress of Poesy

(D) The Fatal Sisters

ANSWER: A

Q.56) “The design of the collaborators was to include in it two different kinds of poetry; in the one ‘the incidents and agents were to be in part at least, supernatural’, in the other, ·subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life’ Who made this comment and on which book?

(A) Wordsworth on The Lyrical Ballads

(B) Coleridge on The Lyrical Ballads

(D) Wordsworth on The Prelude

ANSWER: B

Q.57) Who was expelled from Oxford for publishing a pamphlet on The Necessity of Atheism?

(A) Byron

(B) Shelley

(D) Burns

ANSWER: B

Q.58) Which period of the history of prose literature saw the rise of the modern review and magazine?

(A) The Age of Wordsworth

(B) The Age of Johnson

(D) The Age of Tennyson

ANSWER: A

Q.59) Which romantic prose writer has been called ‘the critic’s critic’?

(A) Lamb

(B) DeQuincy

(D) Landor

ANSWER: C

Q.60) “He gives us such real immortals as Mr Pickwick Mrs Gamp Mr Micawber and Sam Weller -typical inhabitants of his sphere, and worthy of a place in any literary brotherhood” Who is the he his referred to?

(A) Henry Fielding

(B) Thomas Hardy

(D) James Joyce

ANSWER: C

Q.61) “While he began as a later Victorian Romantic poet, he ended as a 20* century metaphysical poet fully abreast of the newer generation’ identify the ‘he’

(A) W B Yeats

(B) Walter de la Mare

(D) W H Auden

ANSWER: A

Q.62) Which of the following plays of Shaw is devoted to studies of religion?

(A) Arms and the Man

(B) St. Joan

(D) The Apple Cart

ANSWER: B

Q.63) Who is often described as the greatest dramatist in the rebirth of the Irish theatre

(A) J M Synge

(B) Galsworthy

(D) J B Priestley

ANSWER: A

Q.64) Name the author of the book The Postmodern Condition

(A) Habermas

(B) Derrida

(D) L yotard

ANSWER: B

Q.65) Which work of Emerson is descried as ‘A Declaration of American Independence’? Intellectual

(A) The American Scholar

(B) The Oversoul

(D) Journals

ANSWER: A

Q.66) H D Thoreau ‘s Walden is otherwise known as

(A) Life in the Forest

(B) Life in the Woods

(D) Man in the Forest

ANSWER: B

Q.67) Which work of Nathaniel Hawthorne seeks ‘to expunge the whipping of the Quaker woman ordered by Judge William through the writing of his story”?

(A) The Scarlet Letter

(B) The House of the Seven Gables

(D) The Gentle Boy

ANSWER: D

Q.68) Captain Peleg Captain Bildad, Captain Ahab are characters in the novels of

(A) Herman Melville

(B) William Faulkner

(D) D H Lawrence

ANSWER: A

Q.69) ·When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed”‘ is an elegy written on the death of

(A) George Washington

(B) Abraham Lincoln

(D) None of these

ANSWER: B

Q.70) Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to

(A) Tom Sawyer

(B) Those Extraordinary Twins

(D) The Stolen White Elephant

ANSWER: A

Q.71) Name the author of My Story

(A) Anitha Nair

(B) Anita Desai

(D) Kamala Das

ANSWER: D

Q.72) V S Naipaul the author of A House for Mr Biswas, has his roots in

(A) India

(B) Africa

(D) Carribean Isles

ANSWER: A

Q.73) Who described ‘English, the global language, as a killer language?

(A) Sidney Greenbaum

(B) Otto Jesperson

(D)Henry Bradley

ANSWER: C

Q.74) Soon after its publication which novel of D H Lawrence was proscribed in England?

(A) Sons and Lovers

(B) Rainbow

(D) Lady Chatterly’s Lover

ANSWER: D

Q.75) A Dance of the Forests, a play which satirizes pre-colonial African regimes is written by:

(A) Wole Soyinka

(B) Ted Hughes

(D) Ngugi wa Thiong’o

ANSWER: A

Q.76) What is the extended and inclusive notion of feminism “that Tony Morrison evolved and developed in her works?

(A) Black Feminism

(B) Ladyism

(D) Damselism

ANSWER: C

Q.77) Which of the following is not one of the Four Quartets?

(A) Dry Salvages

(B) Little Gidding

(D) Burnt Norton

ANSWER: C

Q.78) Of all the continental writers……… influenced much the Victorian and Post- Victorian dramatists

(A) Tolstoy

(B) Ibsen

(D)Victor Hugo

ANSWER: B

Q.79) Tagore’s Biondini generally regarded as the first modern novel by an Indian author was translated into English by his biographer

(A) Krishna Kriplani

(B) S Radhakrishnan

(D) Edward Thompson

ANSWER: A

Q.80) Which of the following is a representative writer of the Theatre of the Absurd?

(A) Wesker

(B) Osbome

(D) Wole Soyinka

ANSWER: C

Q.81) Identify the velar plosive consonants

(A) /f,v

(B) /k g/

(D) /s,z/

ANSWER: B

Q.82) Normally if a word begins with a schwa (e) sound, the stress falls on the

(A) Last syllable

(B) Last but one syllable

(D) First syllable

ANSWER: C

Q.83) The tense formation in the following words is realized by respectively?

Pick-ed kill-ed fit-ted

(A) / d,t, id/

(B) /id,t d/

(D) /t, d, id /

ANSWER: D

Q.84) Identify the book by Bloomfield that revolutionized the modern language study

(A) Language

(B) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

(D) The Word

ANSWER: A

Q.85) What is Umlaut?

(A) A consonant – change brought about by a consonant

(B) A consonant — change brought about by a vowel

(D) A vowel – change brought about by a consonant

ANSWER: C

Q.86) Affixes are…………

(A) Prefix suffix, infix

(B) Prefix and suffix

(D) Prefix and infix

ANSWER: A

Q.87) Linguistics is the

(A) Detailed study of morphology

(B) In-depth study of syntax and grammar

(D) Scientific study of language

ANSWER: D

Q.88) One who is proficient in many languages is called a

(A) Para-lingual

(B) Multilingual

(D) Linguist

ANSWER: C

Q.89) Which of the following is not a minimal pair?

(A) Lit/Lot

(B) Pin/Bin

(D) Raise/Rice

ANSWER: D

Q.90) Which of the following sentences is an example for structural ambiguity?

(A) He ate a tiger

(B) Visiting relatives can be a nuisance

(D) Seeing is believing

ANSWER: B

Q.91) Mutton, pork, venison are examples of contribution to English vocabulary

(A) Celtic

(B) German

(D) French

ANSWER: D

Q.92) Which of the following is wrong?

(A) I am writing to give you information and advice

(B) I gave the money to him

(D) I am writing to give information and advice

ANSWER: D

Q.93) Identify the right sentence

(A) How can we get them to changing their minds?

(B) How can we get them change their minds?

(D) How can we get them changing their minds?

ANSWER: C

Q.94) A word having the same sound and perhaps the same spelling as another, but a different meaning and origin is called a

(A) Homonym

(B) Homophone

(D) Synonym

ANSWER: A

Q.95) In the sentence “He goes home’, home is used as

(A) Noun

(B) Adjective

(D) Compliment

ANSWER: C

Q.96) The phrasal verb “to get one’s own back [on sb]’ means………

(A) Evade

(B) Have one’s revenge

(D) Manage to leave

ANSWER: B

Q.97) Spot out the right idiomatic usage:

The guide asked the tourist…………

(A) To board into the train immediately

(B) To board on the train immediately

(D) To board the train immediately

ANSWER: D

Q.98) When was the first edition of Daniel Jones’ English Pronouncing Dictionary published?

(A) 1917

(B)1919

(D) 1921

ANSWER: A

Q.99) When a superior officer in the army gives an order to his subordinate, the appropriate intonation should be

(A) Falling intonation

(B) Rising intonation

(D) Rise / fall intonation

ANSWER: A

Q.100) Give the antonym of ‘postpone’

(A) Advance

(B) Progress

(D) Forward

ANSWER: A

Q.101) According to Aristotle, which are the objects that tragedy imitates?

(A) Plot, character and thought

(B) Diction and song

(D) Plot and action

ANSWER: A

Q.102) ·Delight is the chief, if not the only end of Poesy: instruction can be admitted but in the second place; for poesy only instructs as it delights’, According to whom is this the function of poetry?

(A) Philip Sydney

(B) John Dryden

(D) Dr. Johnson

ANSWER: B

Q.103) Who defined poetry as “the criticism of life”?

(A) S T Coleridge

(B) Walter Pater

(D) Matthew Arnold

ANSWER: D

Q.104) “Objective Correlative’ is used by Eliot to explain how

(A) Feelings and emotions should not be separated in poetry

(B) The poet should depersonalize his creation

(D) To trigger objective thinking in the reader

ANSWER: C

Q.105) With whom did I A Richards co-author the Foundation of Aesthetics

(A) James Wood and F R Leavis

(B) C K Ogden and C S Lewis

(D) C K Ogden and F R Leavis

ANSWER: C

Q.106) Name the author of New Bearings in English Poetry

(A) E R Leavis

(B) Edmund Gosse

(D) F W Bateson

ANSWER: A

Q.107) Who proposed the theory of Deconstruction?

(A) Frank Kermode

(B) Jacques Derrida

(D) Stanley Fish

ANSWER: B

Q.108) Which of the following is a structuralist?

(A) Geoffrey Hartman

(B) Roland Barthes

(D) H G Widdowson

ANSWER: B

Q.109) Homi Bhabha is a critic

(A) Modern

(B) Post-modern

(D) Post-structuralist

ANSWER: C

Q.110) Which book is said to have inaugurated the feminist school of criticism?

(A) Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence

(B) Simon de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex

(D) Gayatri Spivak*s In Oher Worlds

ANSWER: B

Q.111) Communicative approach to language teaching demands that…………

(A) Grammar is learnt inductively

(B) Language learning is viewed as rule acquisition, not habit formation

(D) Only the target language should be used in the classroom

ANSWER: C

Q.112) The use of the native language in the class room is discouraged in the method of teaching,

(A) Direct Method

(B) Grammar Translation Method

(D) Functional Method

ANSWER: A

Q.113) What is ESP?

(A) English for Students’ Purposes

(B) English for School Purposes

(D) English for Specific Purposes

ANSWER: D

Q.114) To be able to discharge such functions as greeting, inviting, introducing etc in a social context is an instance of competence

(A) Linguistic

(B) Communicative

(D) Syntactic

ANSWER: B

Q.115) Tutorials enable the students to pursue

(A) interactive learning

(B) Bookish learning

(D) Rote learning

ANSWER: A

Q.116) In a non-cognate bilingual/multilingual situation approach to language teaching would be contextually relevant

(A) Cognitive

(B) Psychological

(D) Sociolinguistic

ANSWER: D

Q.117) Audio-lingual method of teaching adds features’ This statement was from a celebrated linguist and a equally celebrated psychologist Spot out the scholars

(A) Bloomfield and Skinner

(B) Bloomfield and Chomsky

(D) J R Firth and Chomsky;

ANSWER: A

Q.118) Student participation in language teaching is centrally vital because

(A) No learning takes place without participation

(B) Student is the subject, object and the target of learning

(D) None of these

ANSWER: B

Q.119) What are the “three modes” of listening?

(A) Dynamic, static and neutral

(B) Active, passive and interactive