HSST - ENGLISH JUNIOR - SR FOR SC / ST ONLY - HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION | Exam held on : 11-03-2016 | Kerala PSC Previous Year Fully Solved Question Paper  | Year - 2016
1] In the year 1856, Basel Mission started the first English Medium School in Malabar at which place ?
[a] Thalaserry
[b] Tirur
[c] Vadakara
[d] Ramanattukara
Answer : A
2] Sivayogi Vilasom, the Monthly Journal was founded by :
[a] Brahmananda Sivayogi
[b] Vagbhadananda
[c] Pandit K.P. Karuppan
[d] Thycaud Ayya Vaikundar
Answer : B
3] Uttara Rama Charitham translated into Malayalam by :
[a] Chathu Kutty Mannadiyar
[b] Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran
[c] Kochunni Thampuran
[d] Munshi Rama Kurup
Answer : A
4] 'In the cause of the people' is the Autobiography of :
[a] T.R. Krishna Swami Ayyar
[b] Swami Ananda Theerthar
[c] A.K. Gopalan
[d] Velukutty Arayan
Answer : C
5] In which year Thakazhy's Novel 'Kayar' got Jnanapeeth Award ?
[a] 1985
[b] 1984
[c] 1983
[d] 1982
Answer : B
6] Which date is observed as Telangana Foundation Day ?
[a] 30th June
[b] 31st July
[c] 2nd June
[d] 2nd July
Answer : C
7] Which one of the following is a system developed by ISRO to provide navigational support to Indian Railway ?
[a] BOSS
[b] BHUVAN
[c] GAGAN
[d] PARAM
Answer : C
8] Who has been appointed as the Secretary of the Department of Administrative reforms in India ?
[a] Alok Rewat
[b] Devendra Chaudary
[c] Feros Shah Mehta
[d] None of these
Answer : B
9] Who among the following received Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award 2015 ?
[a] MYS Prasad
[b] K. Radhakrishnan
[c] Prof. U.R. Rao
[d] G.N. Ramachandran
Answer : A
10] Which country is venue for the first ever Asian Youth Athletic Championship - 2015 ?
[a] Oman
[b] Pakistan
[c] Jordan
[d] Qatar
Answer : D
11] Research studies that use 'narratives' to describe their observations are called :
[a] Analytical research
[b] Survey research
[c] Correlational research
[d] Qualitative research
Answer : D
12] In teaching, the skill of 'Set Induction' means :
[a] To introduce the topic in an appropriate way
[b] To lecture with clarity
[c] To encourage pupil-participation
[d] To change the stimulus
Answer : A
13] Which of the following is a non-probability sampling ?
[a] Stratified random sampling
[b] Quota sampling
[c] Systematic sampling
[d] Cluster sampling
Answer : B
14] Teachers primary responsibility lies in :
[a] Coverage of the content
[b] Updating students records
[c] Make the students disciplined
[d] Planning educational experiences
Answer : D
15] Generalization is the process of :
[a] Organizing the data
[b] Analyzing the data
[c] Drawing conclusions from the data
[d] Application of the findings
Answer : D
16] Which is the basis of your priority for teaching profession ?
[a] Attractive Salary
[b] Service Security
[c] Social Prestige
[d] Opportunity to work for children
Answer : D
17] 'Experimentation' in research is :
[a] Uncontrolled manipulation
[b] Uncontrolled measurement
[c] Controlled observation
[d] Controlled verification
Answer : C
18] 'Anything can be taught to any child at any stage of development in an intellectually honest way' is a gist of the
statement made by :
[a] Maria Montessori
[b] Jerome S. Bruner
[c] B.F. Skinner
[d] Froebel
Answer : B
19] Internal Criticism in historical research is for evaluating :
[a] Source
[b] Content
[c] Authorship
[d] Age
Answer : B
20] Which of the roles listed below is not relevant to the parent-teacher association ?
[a] Maintenance of discipline
[b] Enhancing infra-structural facilities
[c] Conduct of co-curricular programmes
[d] Evaluation of scholastic attainment of pupils
Answer : D
21] The Directive Principles of State Policy was adopted in the Indian Constitution from :
[a] U.K.
[b] U.S.S.R.
[c] U.S.A.
[d] Ireland
Answer : D
22] Which Amendment was challenged in Kesavananda Bharati case ?
[a] 24th
[b] 42nd
[c] 25th
[d] 44th
Answer : A
23] The principle of Res-judicata is not applied in the writ of :
[a] Habeas Corpus
[b] Quo Warranto
[c] Certiorari
[d] All the above
Answer : A
24] The right to privacy is protected under which Article of the Constitution of India ?
[a] Article 14
[b] Article 20
[c] Article 19
[d] Article 21
Answer : D
25] The National Food Security Act came into force on :
[a] 15th July 2013
[b] 15th August 2013
[c] 5th July 2013
[d] 15th August 2014
Answer : C
26] An authority need not disclose information under S.8 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 if :
[a] it violates the legal right of any person
[b] it affects the process of investigation
[c] it causes loss or injury to any person
[d] it affects reputation of any person
Answer : B
27] The Committee that should be constituted by every employer of a workplace under S.4 of the Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act is :
[a] Disciplinary Committee
[b] Anti-harassment Committee
[c] Anti-sexual Harassment Committee
[d] Internal Complaints Committee
Answer : D
28] Agenda 21 is an outcome of __________ .
[a] Rio Earth Summit 1992
[b] Kyoto Protocol
[c] World Development Report 2002
[d] UN Declaration
Answer : A
29] Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the right to work is __________ .
[a] Fundamental right
[b] Legal right
[c] Not a legal right
[d] Political right
Answer : B
30] The contingency fund in a state is operated by __________ .
[a] Chief Minister
[b] Council of Ministers
[c] Governor
[d] Prime Minister
Answer : C
31] In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer presents the Wife of Bath as a depiction of __________ .
[a] Experience
[b] Cleanliness
[c] Meekness
[d] Chastity
Answer : D
32] Which text by Antonio Gramsci inspired Stuart Hall ?
[a] The Prison Diaries
[b] The Princess Diaries
[c] The Marxism Diaries
[d] The Motorcycle Diaries
Answer : A
33] Hester wore the 'scarlet letter' as :
[a] Religious Observance
[b] A Memento of her relationship with the Pastor
[c] A Mark of Sexual Transgression
[d] A Token of Dimmesdale's Guilt
Answer : C
34] What according to Coleridge is "essentially vital" and struggles "to idealize and unify" ?
[a] Secondary Imagination
[b] Primary Imagination
[c] Fancy
[d] None of these
Answer : A
35] What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
[a] Alliterative
[b] Epic
[c] Acrostic
[d] Haiku
Answer : C
36] "Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways", are the words of the Chorus in which play ?
[a] Hamlet
[b] Oedipus at Colonus
[c] The Winter's Tale
[d] Murder in the Cathedral
Answer : D
37] What is the theme of "The Blessed Damozel" ?
[a] Revenge
[b] Undying Love
[c] Family Feud
[d] Chivalry
Answer : B
38] Name the Shakespearean play with an epilogue :
[a] Twelfth Night
[b] Henry IV
[c] Hamlet
[d] The Tempest
Answer : D
39] According to Edward Said, 'the orient' is portrayed in Western novels, media and art work as __________ .
[a] Too focused on historical facts and accurately portraying the experience of life in the region
[b] A place prone to liberal democracy and revolutionary feminism
[c] An accurate depiction of the modern day Middle East and Asia
[d] Lost in the past, prone to despotic rule and plagued by 'odd' cultural traditions
Answer : D
40] What did Sophia leave for Tom at the inn at Upton ?
[a] Her shawl
[b] Her muff
[c] Her stays
[d] Her petticoat
Answer : B
41] The subplot of Hayavadana is centred around __________ .
[a] The man with the horse's head
[b] The dolls
[c] The love triangle
[d] The Bhagavata
Answer : A
42] "Panopticism" is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by :
[a] Roman Jakobson
[b] Jacques Lacan
[c] Michel Foucault
[d] Jacques Derrida
Answer : C
43] When Act I of Waiting for Godot opens, Estragon is :
[a] Asleep
[b] Trying to pull his boot off
[c] Making castles in the dirt
[d] Staring off into space
Answer : B
44] The idea that people are weighed down by the roles they play is introduced by William Wordsworth in Immortality Ode, based on the concept of __________ .
[a] Theatrum mundi
[b] Spiritus mundi
[c] Transit Gloria mundi
[d] Lectio brevior
Answer : A
45] Who was sent by Polonius to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
[a] Francisco
[b] Samson
[c] Reynaldo
[d] Gorgonzola
Answer : C
46] Who termed the present environmental crisis as a crisis of our imagination ?
[a] Lawrence Buell
[b] Henry Thoreau
[c] Richard Adams
[d] Aldo Leopold
Answer : B
47] During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from __________ .
[a] Celtic and Norse
[b] Sanskrit and Pali
[c] Latin and French
[d] Greek and Latin
Answer : C
48] Wordsworth's primary concern in the Lyrical Ballads was __________ .
[a] the language of poetry
[b] the subject matter of poetry
[c] the rejection of neoclassical principles
[d] to formulate a new genre of poetry
Answer : A
49] What aspect of the main character is mirrored in the structure of The Golden Note Book ?
[a] The complexity of her looks
[b] The simplicity of her looks
[c] The simplicity of her life
[d] The complexity of her life
Answer : D
50] According to Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, what is the essence of romance ?
[a] Consistency
[b] Fidelity
[c] Uncertainty
[d] Passion
Answer : C
51] What is meant by 'language transfer' ?
[a] The carry over of rules of the Second language syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the mother tongue in
[b] The carry over of rules of the mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the Second language in
[c] The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred haphazardly during Second language acquisition from any other language accessed by the learner
[d] Knowledge generated in the development of a learner on account of other domains of knowledge
Answer : C
52] What is considered as the central principle of literary criticism in Sanskrit Literature ?
[a] Dhwani
[b] Rasa
[c] Vakrokthi
[d] Vyanjana
Answer : D
53] Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ?
[a] Abdiel
[b] Uriel
[c] Raphael
[d] Michael
Answer : B
54] The Grecian Urn is called "cold pastoral" because :
[a] it has remained unchanged till now
[b] it is mysterious
[c] it is made of marble
[d] all of these
Answer : D
55] In which section of The Waste Land does Tiresias appear ?
[a] What the Thunder Said
[b] A Game of Chess
[c] The Fire Sermon
[d] The Burial of the Dead
Answer : C
56] "Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful". Whose words are these ?
[a] Samuel Johnson
[b] John Dryden
[c] William Wordsworth
[d] Samuel Coleridge
Answer : A
57] The term for describing someone's death as "someone is no more" or that "someone has breathed his/her last" is __________ .
[a] Euphism
[b] Euphony
[c] Understatement
[d] Euphemism
Answer : D
58] What does Noam Chomsky's theory of language development emphasize ?
[a] Children's cognitive abilities
[b] Learning and conditioning principles
[c] Innate structures and biological mechanisms
[d] The language support system provided by parents
Answer : C
59] Shelly used which stanza form in "Ode to the West Wind" ?
[a] Rime Royal
[b] Terza Rima
[c] Ottava Rima
[d] Spenserian Stanza
Answer : B
60] From which poem is the line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" taken from ?
[a] The Waste Land
[b] Tintern Abbey
[c] The Second Coming
[d] Prayer for My Daughter
Answer : C
61] The term 'Peripeteia' means __________ .
[a] Constancy in the fortune of the hero
[b] Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
[c] Fluctuations occurring in the fortunes of the hero
[d] Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
Answer : C
62] Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutus Jones in Emperor Jones ?
[a] Lem
[b] Len
[c] Leon
[d] Lix
Answer : A
63] 'Spenser writ no language'. Who said this ?
[a] Dryden
[b] Dr. Johnson
[c] Ben Jonson
[d] Matthew Arnold
Answer : C
64] The theme of "Dejection : An Ode" is :
[a] unhappy marriage
[b] loss of poetic imagination
[c] broken friendship
[d] inability to bear defeat
Answer : B
65] The poem in which Yeats uses the famous "stone metaphor" is __________ .
[a] Among School Children
[b] Second Coming
[c] Sailing to Byzantium
[d] Eastern 1916
Answer : D
66] In which essay did Matthew Arnold regarded poetry as "a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty" ?
[a] Culture and Anarchy
[b] Essays in Criticism
[c] The Study of Poetry
[d] Literature and Dogma
Answer : C
67] Who in "My Last Duchess" is said to have made the Duchess' painting ?
[a] George Vasari
[b] Fra Pandolf
[c] Duke of Ferrari
[d] Not mentioned
Answer : B
68] What poison did Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father to kill him ?
[a] Hebenon
[b] Baneberry
[c] Burdock
[d] Hemlock
Answer : A
69] What was the original title of Pride and Prejudice ?
[a] 'Last Impressions'
[b] 'False Impressions'
[c] 'First Impressions'
[d] 'True Impressions'
Answer : C
70] Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners' ?
[a] E.E. Cummings
[b] T.S. Eliot
[c] John Greenleaf Whittier
[d] Walt Whitman
Answer : B
71] What are the two levels of language referred to by the term 'duality' ?
[a] Morphology and Syntax
[b] Structure and Use
[c] Sound and Meaning
[d] Phonetics and Phonology
Answer : C
72] Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?
[a] Emily Dickinson
[b] Paul Dunbar
[c] John Greenleaf Whittier
[d] Walt Whitman
Answer : D
73] In "Archetypes of Literature" Northrope Frye equates 'autumn' to __________ .
[a] Romance
[b] Tragedy
[c] Comedy
[d] Satire
Answer : B
74] What does Michael do for a living in The Mayor of Casterbridge ?
[a] An auctioneer
[b] A sailor
[c] A turnip-hoer
[d] A hay-trusser
Answer : D
75] "Ecriture" means __________ .
[a] Author
[b] Writing
[c] Reader
[d] Text
Answer : B
76] The author of Nation and Narration is :
[a] Edward Said
[b] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
[c] Frantz Fanon
[d] Homi Bhabha
Answer : D
77] __________ refers to word formation.
[a] Morphology
[b] Phonology
[c] Semantics
[d] Syntax
Answer : A
78] Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?
[a] Helene Cixous
[b] Monique Wittig
[c] Simone de Beauvoir
[d] Luce Irigaray
Answer : B
79] What is "the beast" in Lord of the Flies ?
[a] The pig
[b] The boar's head
[c] The parachutist
[d] The skull
Answer : C
80] In which figure of speech is there a play on the various meanings of a word ?
[a] Metaphor
[b] Irony
[c] Transferred Epithet
[d] Pun
Answer : D
81] The essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" was written by __________ .
[a] Adrienne Rich
[b] Judith Butler
[c] Diana Fuss
[d] Annamarie Jagose
Answer : A
82] "The pitfalls of national consciousness" is an essay by __________ .
[a] Benedict Anderson
[b] Benita Parry
[c] Frantz Fanon
[d] Partha Chatterjee
Answer : C
83] Who defined Postmodern as "incredulity towards metanarratives" ?
[a] Jacques Lacan
[b] Gilles Deleuze
[c] Jean Baudrillard
[d] Jean-Francois Lyotard
Answer : D
84] In his study of metaphor and metonymy, Roman Jakobson borrowed Saussure's "syntagm versus paradigm" which stands for __________ and __________ respectively.
[a] Particular and General
[b] Separation and Connection
[c] Selection and Combination
[d] None of these
Answer : C
85] Which of the following poets has written a poem on a tree in their garden house at Baugmaree ?
[a] Sarojini Naidu
[b] Toru Dutt
[c] Meena Alexander
[d] Kamala Das
Answer : B
86] Who supports Women's Rights in Sons and Lovers ?
[a] Mrs. Morel
[b] Annie
[c] Miriam
[d] Clara Dawes
Answer : A
87] For the Elizabethan audience, the Duchess of Malfi marrying her steward, Antonio, was a triple offence. Which of the following is not one ?
[a] She was a widow marrying a second time
[b] She married on her own outside the Church
[c] She married beneath her status in disregard of 'degree'
[d] She married against the wishes of her brothers who almost acted like her guardians
Answer : B
88] Where does young Catherine leave Thrushcross Grange for the first time to ?
[a] Wuthering Heights
[b] The nearby village
[c] The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
[d] London
Answer : C
89] How does John Donne describe the death of virtuous people in "A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning" ?
[a] Painful
[b] Silent
[c] Clamorous
[d] Slow
Answer : B
90] What was the preliminary version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man known as ?
[a] Stephen Hero
[b] Bloom's Blunder
[c] A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
[d] The Dead
Answer : A
91] Who is the author of the two major works An Introduction to Language and Language ?
[a] Leonard Bloomfield
[b] Bernard Bloch
[c] Noam Chomsky
[d] Ferdinand de Saussure
Answer : A
92] Where does The Glass Menagerie take place ?
[a] Cleveland
[b] New York
[c] Mississippi
[d] St. Louis
Answer : D
93] The meaning of the term 'episteme' is __________ .
[a] Knowledge
[b] Archive
[c] Theology
[d] Scholarship
Answer : A
94] Which of the following is not a form of new Historicist criticism ?
[a] Genealogy of Patriarchal Discourse
[b] Archaeology of Social Constructs
[c] Poststructural recovery of authorial intent
[d] Cultural Materialism
Answer : C
95] According to Ralph Emerson, what do great works of art teach us ?
[a] Truly great works of art inspire everyone
[b] There are few true geniuses in the world
[c] Art is a matter of personal taste
[d] Obey your spontaneous impression
Answer : D
96] Who called Francis Bacon, "the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind" ?
[a] Dr. Johnson
[b] Ben Jonson
[c] Alexander Pope
[d] John Dryden
Answer : C
97] Whom does "an embarrassed peacock, quite unused to its plumes" refer to ?
[a] Toru Dutt
[b] Sarojini Naidu
[c] Emily Bronte
[d] Emily Dickinson
Answer : D
98] What does Caroline see her youngest son's affliction as in The Sound and the Fury ?
[a] As a blessing
[b] As God's will
[c] As part of life
[d] As a curse on the family
Answer : D
99] The period in The Bluest Eye corresponds to __________ .
[a] the Vietnam war and the violence against the poor
[b] World War II and the Nazi regime's ideas of beauty
[c] the Reconstruction era and the legacy of slavery
[d] Reagan's racism and his war against America's black poor
Answer : B
100] The winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014 is __________ .
[a] Richard Flanagan
[b] Patrick Modiano
[c] Alice Munro
[d] Elanor Catton
Answer : B
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