HSST – ENGLISH – JUNIOR – HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION

PROVISIONAL ANSWER KEY
Question Paper Code: 30/2015/OL
Category Code: 022/2015
Exam: HSST English Jr
Medium of Question: English
Date of Test 27-11-2015
Alphacode A
Question1:-2014 Man Booker Prize was won by
A:-Richard Flanagan
B:-Jean Tirole
C:-Patrick Modiano
D:-Isamu Akasaki
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question2:-Name the freedom fighter who went to jail with her two month old baby due to the participation in the Civil
Disobedience Movement?
A:-Ammu Swaminathan
B:-Swarnakumari
C:-Kuttimalu Amma
D:-Akkama Cheriyan
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question3:-“Atmavidya Sangham” was founded by….?
A:-Ayyan Kali
B:-Chattampi Swamikal
C:-Brahmananda Sivayogi
D:-Vagbhadananda
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question4:-The Bollywood actor who has been appointed as UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia?
A:-Abhishek Bachchan
B:-Aamir Khan
C:-Ajay Devgan
D:-Akshaykumar
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question5:-C V Kunhuraman was the founder of ……….?
A:-Malayala Manorama
B:-Swaraj
C:-Malayalee
D:-Kerala Kaumudi
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question6:-Which day is recently declared by UN as ‘ International Yoga Day’ ?
A:-June 21
B:-August 22
C:-December 10
D:-October 24
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question7:-The founder and editor of women’s magazine ‘Shrimati’?
A:-Akkamma Cheriyan
B:-Anna Chandi
C:-Arya Pallan
D:-Lalitha Prabhu
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question8:-‘ Wandering in many worlds’ is the autobiography of ………….?
A:-K P Kesava Menon
B:-T R Krishanaswami Iyer
C:-V R Krishna Iyer
D:-T K Madhavan
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question9:-The work of G Sankara Kurup which won the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award (1961) and Kendra Sahitya
Academy Award (1963) ?
A:-Nimisham
B:-Vishwadarshanam
C:-Padhikante Pattu
D:-Jeevana Sangeetham
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question10:-In which venue Rohit Sharma made the highest individual ODI score of 264 runs against Sri Lanka?
A:-Bangalore
B:-Punjab
C:-Chennai
D:-Kolkota
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question11:-A relationship in which a less experienced learner acquires knowledge and skills under guidance of an expert:
A:-Cognition
B:-Cognitive Apprenticeship
C:-Apprentice learning
D:-Co-operative learning
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question12:-Which educationalist believed, ” Psychic being within oneself to be the essence of his spiritual selves”
A:-Karl Marx
B:-Aurobindo
C:-Krupskaya
D:-Gijubhai Badeka
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question13:-Process whereby children adopt external standards as their own is termed as
A:-Internalization
B:-Reactions
C:-Imitation
D:-Intervention
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question14:-Testing used during instruction to help ‘diagnosis’ is
A:-Summative
B:-Formative
C:-Internal
D:-Grading
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question15:-Intensive study of one person or a situation is called
A:-Correlation study
B:-Case study
C:-Causal Comparative research
D:-Micro Genetic study
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question16:-The relationship between mean, median and mode is
A:-Mode=2(median)-3(mean)
B:-Mode=3(median)-2(mean)
C:-Mode=3(mean)-2(median)
D:-Mode=2(mean)-3(median)
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question17:-Complete list of members of population from which sampling unit are selected is known as
A:-Sampling notation
B:-Sampling method
C:-Sample criterion
D:-Sampling Frame
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question18:-Two significant levels often used in social science research are
A:-0.01 & 0.03
B:-0.01 & 0.05
C:-0.001 & 0.005
D:-0.001 & 0.008
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question19:-Clubbing new information into existing schema is called
A:-Assimilation
B:-Accomodation
C:-Equillibration
D:-Disequillibrium
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question20:-A child is unable to see the blackboard and often writes notes by looking into notebooks of nearby classmates
what inference will you draw on child’s difficulty
A:-Children are mischievous
B:-black board writing is unclear for all children
C:-child has a poor vision
D:-Child doesn’t want to write from blackboard
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question21:-What is the maximum period provided by the Constitution for President’s rule in a State?
A:-6 months.
B:-1 year.
C:-3 years.
D:-5 years.
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question22:-Who appoints the Comptroller and Auditor General of India?
A:-President.
B:-Prime Minister.
C:-Chief Justice of India.
D:-Finance Minister.
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question23:-Which of the following statement is correct in respect of Union list provided in the Constitution?
A:-Government in Union Territories have exclusive powers on the subjects mentioned in the Union list.
B:-Central Government has exclusive powers on the subjects mentioned in the Union list.
C:-Central Government and State Governments have exclusive powers on the subjects mentioned in the Union list.
D:-State Government has exclusive powers on the subjects mentioned in the Union list.
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question24:-Which one of the following is not mentioned in the preamble of the Indian Constitution?
A:-Sovereign.
B:-Socialist.
C:-Secular.
D:-Sociologic.
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question25:-What is the maximum age limit prescribed for Supreme Court Judges?
A:-60.
B:-62.
C:-65.
D:-67.
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question26:-Which is the authority that evaluates and monitors the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi Rural
Employment Guarantee Act, 2005?
A:-Minister, Rural Development, Government of India
B:-Central Employment Guarantee Council
C:-District Collector
D:-Panchayat Secretary
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question27:-The system for distribution of essential commodities to the ration card holders through fair price shops under
National Food Security Act, 2013 is envisaged through……….. ?
A:-Comprehensive Rationing System
B:-Poverty and Hunger Index
C:-Targeted Public Distribution System
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question28:-Which among the following statement is incorrect with respect to ‘The Protection of Women from Domestic
Violence Act, 2005?
A:-The domestic violence include both physical and mental abuse
B:-the domestic violence include economic abuse
C:-The Act applies to the aggrieved woman in married relationship and live-in relationship
D:-The overall fact and circumstances of the case has nothing to do with determining the commission of domestic
violence under the Act
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question29:-Which among the following is not ‘information’ bound to be made available under the Right to Information Act,
2005?
A:-All information recorded and published
B:-All information recorded and not marked secret but unpublished
C:-All information relating to the personal matters of an individual forming part of his public life or related to any public
activity
D:-Information, the disclosure of which would cause a breach of privilege of the parliament
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question30:-The World organ donation day is celebrated every year on
A:-6th August
B:-9th September
C:-4th August
D:-5th December
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question31:- 1) What is the name of the inn where Chaucer’s narrator meets the pilgrims?
A:- a) Taffold Inn
B:-Tabard Inn
C:-
Southwark Inn
D:- Three Kings Inn
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question32:- 1) Prothalamion is a nuptial song on the occasion of the twin marriage of ——–
A:- Lady Victoria and Lady Katherine
B:- Lady Belinda and Lady Bellona
C:- Lady Elizabeth and Lady Victoria
D:- Lady Elizabeth and LadyKatherine
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question33:- 1) The rhyme scheme of Shakespearian sonnet —————
A:- abba abba cde cde
B:- abab cdcd efef cc
C:-abab cdcd efef gg
D:- ababa ababa cdcd
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question34:- 1) In which poem does this line occur “Alas, alas, who’s injured by my love?”
A:-The Canonization
B:-To a Skylark
C:- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
D:-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question35:- 1) When was Paradise Lost published?
A:-1768
B:-1669
C:- 1668
D:-1667
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question36:- 1) In the poem McFlecknoe , Flecknoe, the poet is compared to —–
A:-Augustus Caesar
B:-Caligula
C:-Postumus Agrippa
D:- Julius Caesar
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question37:- 1) Identify the poem in which the following lines occur : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To
quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse’s flame.
A:-Hymn to Adversity
B:- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
C:-The Progress of Poesy
D:- The Bard
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question38:- What is Hamlet’s hamertia?
A:-madness
B:-self-delusion
C:-procrastination
D:-ambition
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question39:- What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? Who is Hecuba mentioned in this
monologue by a Shakespearean character?
A:- Priam’s wife
B:-Kolanos’ wife
C:-Agamemnon’s wife
D:- Argurios’ wife
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question40:- Who speaks the epilogue in The School for Scandal?
A:-Sir Olvier Surface
B:-Charles Surface
C:-Lady Teazle
D:-Mr. Colman
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question41:-In “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” Wordsworth talks about _______
A:-Life after death
B:-Devotion
C:-Human folly
D:-Pre-natal existence
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question42:-The speaker in “Ode to the West Wind” is considered to the author’s _______
A:-alter-ego
B:-persona
C:-personification
D:-poetic self
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question43:-Whom does Ullysses refer to as ‘a savage race’ in Tennyson’s poem “Ullysses”?
A:-The Trojans
B:-The Persians
C:-The Greeks
D:-The Spartans
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question44:-The coast of which country does the poet see across the sea in Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach”?
A:-France
B:-Ireland
C:-Spain
D:-Portugal
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question45:-Hopkins’ poem “The Windhover” is notable for its use of _______
A:-Sprung Rhythm
B:-Simile
C:-Conceit
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question46:-The title of Charles Lamb’s essay “Dream Children” refers to _______
A:-Ideal children
B:-Children who dream
C:-Children from a family called “Dream’
D:-Children the author saw in a dream
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question47:-The heroine of Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Ernest was named ________
A:-Jane
B:-Gwendolen
C:-Tess
D:-Elizabeth
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question48:-Where was Oliver Twist the protagonist of Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist born?
A:-In an orphanage
B:-In a prison
C:-In a workhouse
D:-In a hospital
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question49:-Wuthering Heights is a novel by ________
A:-Charlotte Bronte
B:-Branwell Bronte
C:-Charlotte Bronte
D:-Emily Bronte
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question50:-The Mayor of Casterbridge like many of Hardy’s novels and stories is set in ________
A:-The market town of Dorchester
B:-Stratford
C:-The Lake District
D:-The Scottish Highlands
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question51:-Yeats’ poem “Easter 1916” refers to _______
A:-The poet’s experiences on Easter, 1916 which he spent in Scotland.
B:-The agreement signed between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland on Easter, 1916.
C:-The uprising of Irish freedom fighters on Easter, 1916.
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question52:-Why is the poet sure that the unknown citizen in the poem “The Unknown Citizen” lived a happy life?
A:-Because he lived in a welfare state
B:-Because we would have known if there had been anything wrong
C:-Because he had written in his diary that he was happy with his life
D:-Because he was honoured by the Government
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question53:-What does Phillip Larkin mean by the expression ‘Another church’ in the poem “Church Going”?
A:-A church like any other
B:-One among the many churches he visited
C:-Another kind of church
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question54:-What according to the poet are the praying women in “In Santa Maria Del Popolo” incapable of?
A:-Abandoning their faith
B:-The grand gesture of the solitary man
C:-Sympathy for the suffering
D:-Sacrifice for their faith
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question55:-Virginia Woolf considered the fiction of her contemporaries ________
A:-Superior to that of their predecessors
B:-Inferior to that of their predecessors
C:-Only different from that of their predecessors
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question56:-Which of the following notions does Bernard Shaw seem to support in Pygmalion?
A:-Women must be independent
B:-Money is more important than beauty
C:-Knowledge is power
D:-Correct pronunciation is necessary for social success
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question57:-Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot was first published in ______
A:-English
B:-Spanish
C:-Russian
D:-French
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question58:-The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man can be described as _________
A:-An epistolary novel
B:-A picaresque novel
C:-A kunstlerroman
D:-Docufiction
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question59:-Graham Greene’s Heart of the Matter is set in ________
A:-India
B:-Sierra Leone
C:-Nigeria
D:-Scotland
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question60:-Allan Sillitoe, author of the novel The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner has been described as _________
A:-A proletarian fictionist
B:-A formalist in fiction.
C:-A satirist
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question61:-Who brought forth the ‘Rasa-Dhwani Siddhanta’ ?
A:-Bharata
B:-Manu
C:-Vamana
D:-Abhinavagupta
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question62:-Aristotle defined poetry as:
A:-Pleasure
B:-Medium of imitation
C:-Emotion
D:-Spontaneous overflow
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question63:-Which of the following is a ‘Vice of Style’ opposed to the ‘Sublime’ according to Longinus?
A:-Grandeur of thought
B:-Dignified expression
C:-Vigorous treatment of the passions
D:-Affectation
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question64:-Who is called ‘The Father of English Criticism’ by Dr. Johnson?
A:-John Dryden
B:-Philip Sidney
C:-Wordsworth
D:-Arnold
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question65:-Who stated that “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?
A:-Coleridge
B:-Arnold
C:-Byron
D:-Wordsworth
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question66:-Arnold’s ‘Touchstone Method’ is modelled on:
A:-Aristotle’s ‘Cathartic Reversal’
B:-Dryden’s ‘Three Unities’
C:-Longinus ‘Test of Poetic Greatness’
D:-Sidney’s ‘Classical Rules’ application to poetry
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question67:-Which of the following movement was initiated with Derrida’s paper ‘The Structure, Sign and Play in the Human
Sciences’ ?
A:-Classical structuralism
B:-Traditional humanism
C:-Empiricism
D:-Post-structuralism
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question68:-What according to ‘Elain Showalter’ is the reason for the impasse that feminist criticism had reached in the
1970s
A:-The ‘Male’ character of ‘Theory’ itself
B:-Orthodox approach to male literary history
C:-The women’s liberation movement
D:-Reviewing past works by feminists
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question69:-Which of the following is NOT one of the main points in Lacan’s ‘Insistence of the letter in the unconscious’ ?
A:-There is no getting outside language
B:-Human self or soul transcends the limits of language
C:-Language is intimately figurative
D:-Human subject is constituted through entry into language
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question70:-‘Michel Foucault’ elaborated upon the relationship between knowledge and power propounded by:
A:-Kant
B:-Saussure
C:-Freud
D:-Nietzsche
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question71:-Syntactic Structures was published by
A:-Saussure
B:-Noam Chomsky
C:-Zellig Harris
D:-Robert May
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question72:-A simplified form of speech formed out of one or more existing languages used by people who have no other
language in common is called ….
A:-Pidgins
B:-Creole
C:-Idiolect
D:-Dialect
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question73:-The language variety unique to a single speaker of a language is called —–
A:-Dialect
B:-Idiolect
C:-Creole
D:-Pidgins
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question74:-The King James Bible was first published in ——
A:-1611
B:-1612
C:-1610
D:-1567
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question75:-Grimm’s law states the
A:-consonant shift
B:-vowel shift
C:-Medieval Latin elusion
D:-division of morpheme
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question76:-Ablaut signifies change in ——–
A:-consonant
B:-meaning
C:-pronunciation
D:-vowel
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question77:-Minimalistic Program is a continuation of —–
A:-Generative Grammar
B:-Structural Linguistics
C:-Historical Linguistics
D:-Social Linguistics
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question78:-The focus of Sociolinguistics is
A:-The effect of the society on the language
B:-Language’s effect on the society
C:-Effect of history on language
D:-Effect of Political changes on language
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question79:-Language was published by
A:-Noam Chomsky
B:-Ferdinand de Saussure
C:-Aldous Huxley
D:-Leonard Bloomfield
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question80:-Who spoke of England and America as two countries separated by a common language
A:-Winston Churchill
B:-Bernard Shaw
C:-Ronald Regan
D:-Leonard Bloomfield
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question81:-What is the central theme of the verses in the ‘Geetanjali’ ?
A:-Love
B:-God
C:-Quest for the divine and devotion
D:-beauty
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question82:-What is the name of the protagonist in Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ ?
A:-Nameless
B:-Jack
C:-Clifton
D:-Ras
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question83:-Why was Mian Abdulla (Midnight’s Children) assassinated? Because/ of:
A:-He was the founder of ‘Free Islam Convocation’
B:-His anti-partition stance
C:-Adam became his follower
D:-Nadir Khan became his enemy
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question84:-What is the new definition that ‘Jaya’ (Harvest) discovers for ‘Winning’ ?Winning by:
A:-Refusing
B:-Surrendering
C:-Revolting
D:-Losing
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question85:-Which of the following is NOT one of the passions of ‘Benjamin Compson’ (Sound and the Fury) ?
A:-Caddy
B:-Jason
C:-Fire
D:-The family golf course
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question86:-The lines “I speak three languages, write in Two, dream in One” is a reference to the multilingualism of:
A:-Toru Dutt
B:-Kamala Das
C:-Ezekiel
D:-Meena Alexander
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question87:-When did ‘Sylvia Plath’ attempt to join her dead daddy for the first time?
A:-At the age of 10
B:-At the age of 15
C:-At the age of 20
D:-At the age of 25
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question88:-What made Robert Frost choose the ‘Road not Taken’?
A:-His desire to make an impact with his life
B:-To make money
C:-To become famous
D:-To be a role model
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question89:-What metal was used in the bullet that killed ‘Brutus Jones’ ?
A:-Gold
B:-Iron
C:-Copper
D:-Silver
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question90:-What does the ‘Self-reliant’ (Emerson’s ‘Self Reliance’) man dislike?
A:-To travel
B:-To speak his mind
C:-To speak truth
D:-To be optimistic
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question91:-_______ is the author of Black Skins, White Masks
A:-Bell Hooks
B:-Malcolm X
C:-Frantz Fanon
D:-Aime Cesaire
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question92:-Deep Ecology is _________
A:-A school of thought which advocates return to nature
B:-A philosophy which attempts to redefine the relationship between humans and nature
C:-A movement or body of concepts that considers humans no more important than other species
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question93:-The following is not generally associated with Queer Theory:
A:-Judith Butler
B:-Adrienne Rich
C:-Michel Foucault
D:-Homi Bhabha
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question94:-Trauma Theory links the experience of trauma to
A:-Language disorders
B:-Identity Politics
C:-The evolutionary heritage of humans
D:-Patriarchy
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question95:-The following is not a form of ‘New Feminism’:
A:-Post-Feminism
B:-Eco-Feminism
C:-Power Feminism
D:-Third Wave Feminism
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question96:-The phrase “Historicity of texts and the textuality of history” was coined by _______
A:-Louis Montrose
B:-Stephen Greenblatt
C:-Alan Sinfield
D:-Raymond Williams
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question97:-The following is associated with Culture Studies:
A:-Stuart Hall
B:-Jacque Derrida
C:-Frantz Fanon
D:-Edward Said
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question98:-The following is not considered a Diasporic writer:
A:-V S Naipaul
B:-Chithra Banerjee Divakaruni
C:-Derek Walcott
D:-Michael Ontadje
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question99:-_____ contributed some of the most important concepts and notions on the Public Sphere in the Twentieth
Century.
A:-Barbara Smith
B:-Mikhail Bakhtin
C:-Noam Chomsky
D:-Jurgen Habermas
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question100:-Hyper-reality can be defined as __________
A:-Extreme faithfulness to reality in representations
B:-The inability of consciousness to recognize between reality and simulations of reality
C:-The empathetic involvement in representations of reality
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-B