HSST ENGLISH – JUNIOR – SR FOR SC/ST – KHSE

FINAL ANSWER KEY
Question Paper Code: 32/2016/OL
Category Code: 377/2015
Exam: HSST English Jr SR
Medium of Question: English
Date of Test 11-03-2016
Alphacode A
Question1:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question2:-Sivayogi Vilasom, the Monthly Journal was founded by :
A:-Brahmananda Sivayogi
B:-Vagbhadananda
C:-Pandit K.P. Karuppan
D:-Thycaud Ayya Vaikundar
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question3:-Uttara Rama Charitham translated into Malayalam by :
A:-Chathu Kutty Mannadiyar
B:-Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran
C:-Kochunni Thampuran
D:-Munshi Rama Kurup
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question4:-‘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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question5:-In which year Thakazhy’s Novel ‘Kayar’ got Jnanapeeth Award ?
A:-1985
B:-1984
C:-1983
D:-1982
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question6:-Which date is observed as Telangana Foundation Day ?
A:-30th June
B:-31st July
C:-2nd June
D:-2nd July
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question7:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question8:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question9:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question10:-Which country is venue for the first ever Asian Youth Athletic Championship – 2015 ?
A:-Oman
B:-Pakistan
C:-Jordan
D:-Qatar
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question11:-Research studies that use ‘narratives’ to describe their observations are called :
A:-Analytical research
B:-Survey research
C:-Correlational research
D:-Qualitative research
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question12:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question13:-Which of the following is a non-probability sampling ?
A:-Stratified random sampling
B:-Quota sampling
C:-Systematic sampling
D:-Cluster sampling
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question14:-Teachers primary responsibility lies in :
A:-Coverage of the content
B:-Updating students records
C:-Make the students disciplined
D:-Planning educational experiences
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question15:-Generalization is the process of :
A:-Organizing the data
B:-Analyzing the data
C:-Drawing conclusions from the data
D:-Application of the findings
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question16:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question17:-‘Experimentation’ in research is :
A:-Uncontrolled manipulation
B:-Uncontrolled measurement
C:-Controlled observation
D:-Controlled verification
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question18:-‘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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question19:-Internal Criticism in historical research is for evaluating :
A:-Source
B:-Content
C:-Authorship
D:-Age
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question20:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question21:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question22:-Which Amendment was challenged in Kesavananda Bharati case ?
A:-24th
B:-42nd
C:-25th
D:-44th
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question23:-The principle of Res-judicata is not applied in the writ of :
A:-Habeas Corpus
B:-Quo Warranto
C:-Certiorari
D:-All the above
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question24:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question25:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question26:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question27:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question28:-Agenda 21 is an outcome of __________ .
A:-Rio Earth Summit 1992
B:-Kyoto Protocol
C:-World Development Report 2002
D:-UN Declaration
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question29:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question30:-The contingency fund in a state is operated by __________ .
A:-Chief Minister
B:-Council of Ministers
C:-Governor
D:-Prime Minister
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question31:-In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer presents the Wife of Bath as a depiction of __________ .
A:-Experience
B:-Cleanliness
C:-Meekness
D:-Chastity
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question32:-Which text by Antonio Gramsci inspired Stuart Hall ?
A:-The Prison Diaries
B:-The Princess Diaries
C:-The Marxism Diaries
D:-The Motorcycle Diaries
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question33:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question34:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question35:-What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
A:-Alliterative
B:-Epic
C:-Acrostic
D:-Haiku
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question36:-“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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question37:-What is the theme of “The Blessed Damozel” ?
A:-Revenge
B:-Undying Love
C:-Family Feud
D:-Chivalry
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question38:-Name the Shakespearean play with an epilogue :
A:-Twelfth Night
B:-Henry IV
C:-Hamlet
D:-The Tempest
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question39:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question40:-What did Sophia leave for Tom at the inn at Upton ?
A:-Her shawl
B:-Her muff
C:-Her stays
D:-Her petticoat
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question41:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question42:-“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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question43:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question44:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question45:-Who was sent by Polonius to spy on Laertes in Paris ?
A:-Francisco
B:-Samson
C:-Reynaldo
D:-Gorgonzola
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question46:-Who termed the present environmental crisis as a crisis of our imagination ?
A:-Lawrence Buell
B:-Henry Thoreau
C:-Richard Adams
D:-Aldo Leopold
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question47:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question48:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question49:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question50:-According to Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, what is the essence of romance ?
A:-Consistency
B:-Fidelity
C:-Uncertainty
D:-Passion
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question51:-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
question
B:-The carry over of rules of the mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the Second language in
question
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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question52:-What is considered as the central principle of literary criticism in Sanskrit Literature ?
A:-Dhwani
B:-Rasa
C:-Vakrokthi
D:-Vyanjana
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question53:-Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ?
A:-Abdiel
B:-Uriel
C:-Raphael
D:-Michael
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question54:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question55:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question56:-“Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful”. Whose words are these ?
A:-Samuel Johnson
B:-John Dryden
C:-William Wordsworth
D:-Samuel Coleridge
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question57:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question58:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question59:-Shelly used which stanza form in “Ode to the West Wind” ?
A:-Rime Royal
B:-Terza Rima
C:-Ottava Rima
D:-Spenserian Stanza
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question60:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question61:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question62:-Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutus Jones in Emperor Jones ?
A:-Lem
B:-Len
C:-Leon
D:-Lix
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question63:-‘Spenser writ no language’. Who said this ?
A:-Dryden
B:-Dr. Johnson
C:-Ben Jonson
D:-Matthew Arnold
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question64:-The theme of “Dejection : An Ode” is :
A:-unhappy marriage
B:-loss of poetic imagination
C:-broken friendship
D:-inability to bear defeat
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question65:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question66:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question67:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question68:-What poison did Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet’s father to kill him ?
A:-Hebenon
B:-Baneberry
C:-Burdock
D:-Hemlock
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question69:-What was the original title of Pride and Prejudice ?
A:-‘Last Impressions’
B:-‘False Impressions’
C:-‘First Impressions’
D:-‘True Impressions’
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question70:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question71:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question72:-Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?
A:-Emily Dickinson
B:-Paul Dunbar
C:-John Greenleaf Whittier
D:-Walt Whitman
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question73:-In “Archetypes of Literature” Northrope Frye equates ‘autumn’ to __________ .
A:-Romance
B:-Tragedy
C:-Comedy
D:-Satire
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question74:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question75:-“Ecriture” means __________ .
A:-Author
B:-Writing
C:-Reader
D:-Text
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question76:-The author of Nation and Narration is :
A:-Edward Said
B:-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
C:-Frantz Fanon
D:-Homi Bhabha
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question77:-__________ refers to word formation.
A:-Morphology
B:-Phonology
C:-Semantics
D:-Syntax
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question78:-Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?
A:-Helene Cixous
B:-Monique Wittig
C:-Simone de Beauvoir
D:-Luce Irigaray
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question79:-What is “the beast” in Lord of the Flies ?
A:-The pig
B:-The boar’s head
C:-The parachutist
D:-The skull
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question80:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question81:-The essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” was written by __________ .
A:-Adrienne Rich
B:-Judith Butler
C:-Diana Fuss
D:-Annamarie Jagose
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question82:-“The pitfalls of national consciousness” is an essay by __________ .
A:-Benedict Anderson
B:-Benita Parry
C:-Frantz Fanon
D:-Partha Chatterjee
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question83:-Who defined Postmodern as “incredulity towards metanarratives” ?
A:-Jacques Lacan
B:-Gilles Deleuze
C:-Jean Baudrillard
D:-Jean-Francois Lyotard
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question84:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question85:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question86:-Who supports Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers ?
A:-Mrs. Morel
B:-Annie
C:-Miriam
D:-Clara Dawes
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question87:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question88:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question89:-How does John Donne describe the death of virtuous people in “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning” ?
A:-Painful
B:-Silent
C:-Clamorous
D:-Slow
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question90:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question91:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question92:-Where does The Glass Menagerie take place ?
A:-Cleveland
B:-New York
C:-Mississippi
D:-St. Louis
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question93:-The meaning of the term ‘episteme’ is __________ .
A:-Knowledge
B:-Archive
C:-Theology
D:-Scholarship
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question94:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question95:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question96:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question97:-Whom does “an embarrassed peacock, quite unused to its plumes” refer to ?
A:-Toru Dutt
B:-Sarojini Naidu
C:-Emily Bronte
D:-Emily Dickinson
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question98:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question99:-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
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question100:-The winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014 is __________ .
A:-Richard Flanagan
B:-Patrick Modiano
C:-Alice Munro
D:-Elanor Catton
Correct Answer:- Option-B