HSA – ENGLISH – EDUCATION

PROVISIONAL ANSWER KEY
Question Paper Code: 13/2015/OL
Category Code: 239/2013
Exam: High School Assistant English
Medium of Question: English
Date of Test 20-08-2015
Alphacode A
Question1:- “Right to Property” was omitted from Part III of Indian Constitution by____________
A:-44th Amendment Act, 1978
B:-42nd Amendment Act,1976
C:-43rd Amendment Act, 1977
D:-41st Amendment Act, 1976
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question2:-Which article of Indian Constitution says the following provision concerned with the protection of children: “No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any
other hazardous employment”
A:-Article 23
B:-Article 25
C:-Article 29
D:-Article 24
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question3:-Who is credited to be called the “father of political movement in Modern Travancore”?
A:-Dr. Palpu
B:-N. Raman Pillai
C:-G. Parameswarn Pillai
D:-R. Ranga Rao
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question4:-Name the British Missionary who established an English school at Mattancheri in 1818 with the fincancial aid from Cochin Government:
A:-Rev. Mead
B:-Rev. J. Dawson
C:-Rev. Baker
D:-Rev. Bailey
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question5:-K. Ramakrishna Pillai worked as the editor of “Swadeshabhimani” from______________
A:-1907-1910
B:-1905-1910
C:-1908-1910
D:-1906-1910
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question6:-Who made the following statement in the meeting of Karnataka Mahila Conference which held on 1st October 1944: “Gandhiji had strong faith in women community and we should keep it up and it is our duty.”
A:-Akkamma Cheriyan
B:-Gracy Aron
C:-A.V. Kuttimalu Amma
D:-Sugunabai
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question7:-P.N. Panicker, the “father of library movement in Kerala” was born in the year________
A:-1912
B:-1909
C:-1911
D:-1914
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question8:-Who authored the book titled “The Decline of Nair Dominance: Society and Politics in Travancore, 1847-1908”?
A:-Stephen Dale
B:-Roland Miller
C:-Kathleen Gough
D:-Robin Jeffrey
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question9:-Who among the following literary figure of Kerala received the honour of ‘Companion of the Star of India’ from the British Queen:
A:-Kodungallur Kunhikuttan Thampuran
B:-Vallathol Narayana Menon
C:-Kerala Varma Valiyakoil Thampuran
D:-Kandathil Varghese Mappila
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question10:-Arrange the following events of Kerala history in correct chronological order and select the correct answer with the help of the codes given below:
(i) Guruvayur Satyagraha (ii) Ezhava Memorial (iii) Paliyam Satyagraha (iv)Malayalee Memorial
CODES
1.(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
2.(ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
3.(iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
4.(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
A:-(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
B:-(ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
C:-(iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
D:-(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question11:-Who bagged the 11th Sustainable Development Leadership Award of 2015?
A:-Jose Manual Durao Barroso
B:-Takehiko Nakao
C:-Rajendra Pachuri
D:-Nickolay Mladenov
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question12:-Who was selected as the good will Ambassador for the 35th National Games?
A:-Saina Nehwal
B:-Sachin Tendulkar
C:-Saniya Mirza
D:-PT Usha
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question13:-What was the main theme of 2015 Republic Day Parade?
A:-Information Technology
B:-Industrial Growth
C:-Women Empowerment
D:-Rural Development
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question14:-Who won the Women’s Singles title at the Syed Modi Grand Pix Gold Badminton Tournament 2015?
A:-Saina Nehwal
B:-K Maneesha
C:-Karolina Marin
D:-Pushpita Richi Dili
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question15:-India and US have signed a joint declaration of intent for co operation to increase partnership for which of the following programme?
A:-Make in India
B:-Cyber Security Programme
C:-Digital India
D:-Swachh Bharath Abhiyan
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question16:-Who was the first person to use action research extensively for solving problems in education?
A:-Stephen M. Corey
B:-Sigmund Freud
C:-John B. Watson
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D:-William Stern
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question17:-_________ is a scaled down sample of teaching process, aimed at simplifying the complexities of the regular teaching process.
A:-Computer Assisted Teaching
B:-Micro-teaching
C:-Team teaching
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question18:-________ are very useful to test the power of expression of the students.
A:-Objective type Questions
B:-Essay Questions
C:-True or False Questions
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question19:-Which of the following abilities cannot be assessed in a written test?
A:-Spelling and Punctuation
B:-Vocabulary
C:-Pronunciation
D:-Phrase patterns and sentence constructions
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question20:-Which are the characteristics of a good text book?
A:-Vocabulary and structure
B:-Subject matter
C:-Exercises and illustrations
D:-All of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question21:-Who is the author of these lines?
Unless this general evil they maintain,
All men are bad, and in their badness reign.
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Earl of Southey
C:-Queen Elizabeth
D:-John Milton
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question22:-Which poem ends with the following line?
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
A:-Fro Lippo Lippi
B:-On His Blindness
C:-Daffodils
D:-Scholar Gypsy
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question23:-The meter in which Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written:
A:-Iambic pentametre
B:-iambic monometre
C:-iambic dimetre
D:-iambic trimetre
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question24:-When was Ode on a Grecian Urn written?
A:-1817
B:-1818
C:-1819
D:-1820
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question25:-Who was Telemachus?
A:-The Son of Ulysses
B:-Ulysses himself
C:-A popular Priest
D:-An Oracle
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question26:-Which poem of Sylvia Plath is rich with Holocaust imagery?
A:-Lady Lazarus
B:-Daddy
C:-The Colossus
D:-Crossing the Water
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question27:-In which anthology of Kamala Das the poem An Introduction appeared?
A:-Summer In Calcutta
B:-the Descendants
C:-Ya Allah!
D:-Only the Soul Knows how to Sing
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question28:-The predominant themes of Frost’s poem Home Burial are…
A:-Death of a child and collapse of a marriage
B:-First World War
C:-Death and Rebirth
D:-Politics and democracy
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question29:-Wole Soyinka is a ——————poet
A:-South African
B:-Kenyan
C:-Latin American
D:-Nigerian
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question30:-Who is the author of the poem This is a Photograph of Me?
A:-Kamala Das
B:-Emily Dickinson
C:-Margaret Atwood
D:-Sylvia Plath
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question31:-What instrument does Nora use to dance the tarantella?
A:-Trumpet
B:-Tambourine
C:-Violin
D:-Drums
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question32:-Maurya in Risers to the Sea tries to discourage ————, her last living son from going to Connemara country fair in the mainland.
A:-Patch
B:-Michael
C:-Sheamus
D:-Bartley
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question33:-The original subtitle of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is ——–
A:-A Trivial Comedy for Subtle People
B:-A Comedy in Three Acts
C:-A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
D:-A Severe Comedy of Manners
Correct Answer:- Option-C
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Question34:-The film version of Shaw’s Pygmalion is ————-
A:-My Flower Lady
B:-My Fair Lady
C:-Cockney Dialect of Eliza Doolittle
D:-Pygmalion: The Sculptor
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question35:-Snake is a character in ——–
A:-The School for Scandal
B:-The Importance of Being Earnest
C:-The Critic
D:-She Stoops to Conquer
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question36:-Who kills Macbeth in the battle at the end of the play?
A:-Malcolm
B:-Banquo
C:-Fleance
D:-Macduff
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question37:-Who becomes blind in the Second Act of Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot?
A:-Lucky
B:-Pozzo
C:-Didi
D:-Gogo
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question38:-What is the sweet that Nora has been forbidden to eat?
A:-Candy Canes
B:-Fruit Cakes
C:-Macaroons
D:-Nut Cakes
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question39:-Which character in Death of a Salesman says, “He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong”?
A:-Biff
B:-Hap
C:-Charley
D:-Bernard
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question40:-Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is interested in writing ———
A:-Fiction
B:-Poetry
C:-Journalistic Essays
D:-Plays
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question41:-Who plays the villainous role in The God of Small Things?
A:-Mammachi
B:-Pappachi
C:-Chacko
D:-Baby Kochamma
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question42:-According to Dr. Radhakrishnan, the three obstacles that stand in the way of development are:
A:-Ignorance, disease, and poverty
B:-Unemployment, lack of skilled workmen, and poverty
C:-Overpopulation, labour unrest and energy crisis
D:-Corruption, communalism and terrorism
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question43:-In “Of Studies”, Bacon says that “Histories make man ———–”
A:-Witty
B:-Wise
C:-Subtle
D:-Grave
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question44:-Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights was published in ——-
A:-1845
B:-1846
C:-1847
D:-1848
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question45:-In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, ———– is obsessed with white complexion.
A:-Claudia
B:-Pecola
C:-Bertha
D:-Cholly
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question46:-Who is Santiago’s only friend and companion in The Old Man and the Sea?
A:-Manolin
B:-Marlin
C:-The Sea
D:-The Fish
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question47:-Who is the sympathetic character in Orwell’s Animal Farm?
A:-Snowball
B:-Napoleon
C:-Squealer
D:-Boxer
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question48:-The essay ‘On Tolerance” is written by ———
A:-Steele
B:-A. G. Gardiner
C:-Francis Bacon
D:-E. M. Forster
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question49:-Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things bagged the ——– for fiction in 1997.
A:-Pulitzer Prize
B:-Kerala Sahitya Academy Award
C:-Booker Prize
D:-Kendra Sahitya Academy Award
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question50:-Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a ———- novel.
A:-Picaresque
B:-Gothic
C:-Epistolary
D:-Stream of Consciousness
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question51:-Rasa in Sanskrit means:
A:-Emotion
B:-Balance
C:-Essence
D:-Anger
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question52:-Who is the author of Dhvanyaloka?
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A:-Anandavardhana
B:-Abhinava Gupta
C:-Valmiki
D:-Vyasa
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question53:-What is meant by Peripeteia?
A:-tragic flaw
B:-Catharsis
C:-plot
D:-Reversal
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question54:-When was the Preface to Lyrical Ballads published?
A:-1800
B:-1600
C:-1900
D:-1700
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question55:-Who made the following remarks:
“Good Sense is the Body of poetic genius, Fancy its Drapery, Motion its Life, and Imagination the Soul that is everywhere”.
A:- Shelley
B:-Wordsworth
C:-Coleridge
D:-Keats
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question56:-Tradition and Individual Talent was published first in
A:-The Egoist
B:-The Sacred Wood
C:-the Waste Land
D:-Selected Essays
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question57:-What does signifier mean according to Saussure?
A:-Sign
B:-shape
C:-idea
D:-concept
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question58:-Whose name is associated with the term gynocriticism?
A:-Kamala Das
B:-Showalter
C:-Mathew Arnold
D:-TS Eliot
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question59:-Who wrote the book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge?
A:-Jean- Francois Lyotard
B:-Jacques Derrida
C:-Noam Chomsky
D:-Edward Said
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question60:-The Wretched of the Earth is penned by
A:-Gayatri Spivak
B:-Ben Okri
C:-Franz Fanon
D:-Chinua Achebe
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question61:-Smallest distinctive unit of sound in the sound system of language is called a ———-
A:-Morpheme
B:-Phoneme
C:-Allomorph
D:-Allophone
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question62:-Words like ‘Motel’, ‘Brunch’ and ‘Smog’ are formed in a special way and this process is known as ————
A:-Blending
B:-Back-formation
C:-Clipping
D:-Autonomasia
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question63:-Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA), essentially a structuralist tool for syntactic analysis, was first introduced by ———-
A:-Chomsky
B:-Saussure
C:-Sapir
D:-Bloomfield
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question64:-The native speaker’s knowledge of the structure of a language is his linguistic ———–
A:-Performance
B:-Parole
C:-Competence
D:-Style
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question65:- ————is the active articulator in the oral cavity.
A:-Alveolar
B:-Teeth
C:-Palate
D:-Tongue
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question66:-English RP has ———- pure vowels or monothongs.
A:-12
B:-20
C:-24
D:-44
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question67:-A phonemic transcription is also called ——— transcription.
A:-Allophonic
B:-Narrow
C:-Convergent
D:-Broad
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question68:-Statements are normally spoken in the ————–tone.
A:-Rising
B:-Falling
C:-Fall-rise
D:-None of these
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question69:-The study of meaning and its manifestation in language is referred to as ———-
A:-Poetics
B:-Rhetoric
C:-Semantics
D:-Semiology
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Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question70:-Germanic languages are also known by the term ————-
A:-Teutonic
B:-Latinate
C:-Balto Slavonic
D:-Celtic
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question71:-Correct the following sentence, where necessary :-
It is high time he improves his behaviour.
A:-It is high time he improved his behaviour.
B:-It is high time he will improve his behaviour.
C:-It was high time he improves his behaviour.
D:-It was high time he will improve his behaviour.
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question72:-They _____________ at about one O’clock.
A:-have usually lunch
B:-lunch usually have
C:-usually have lunch
D:-usually lunch have
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question73:-He is the ________ to this estate.
A:-Hair
B:-Hier
C:-Hare
D:-Heir
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question74:-Which of the following idioms means “something which causes quarrel”?
A:-At sixes and sevens
B:-Apple of discord
C:-At arm’s length
D:-A cat and dog life
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question75:-The antonym of “adversity” is __________
A:-Scarcity
B:-Forbearance
C:-Deficiency
D:-Prosperity
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question76:-The word “callous” means __________
A:-Serene
B:-Insensitive
C:-Cool-headed
D:-Chronic
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question77:-Write one word for “that which cannot be conquered or defeated”.
A:-Inevitable
B:-Invincible
C:-Inflammable
D:-Innocuous
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question78:-Which of the following words means “skilled” or “expert”?
A:-Adept
B:-Adapt
C:-Adopt
D:-Abstain
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question79:-Which of the following idioms means “to break an uncomfortable silence”?
A:-Break down
B:-Break away
C:-Break the record
D:-Break the ice
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question80:-A picture is ___________ on the wall.
A:-Hung
B:-Hang
C:-Hanged
D:-Hangs
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question81:-Spain is _________ European country.
A:-the
B:-an
C:-of
D:-a
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question82:-You should sympathize ___________ the blind.
A:-at
B:-for
C:-with
D:-against
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question83:-It is amazing how much George ________ his grandfather.
A:-resemble
B:-resembles
C:-is resemble
D:-is resembling
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question84:-My aunt Martha ____________ to smoke a lot.
A:-is used
B:-has used
C:-used
D:-was used
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question85:-She hardly remembers anything, __________
A:-doesn’t she?
B:-is she?
C:-does she?
D:-isn’t she?
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question86:-“Invite him to the meeting.”
Which among the following options is true when the above sentence is converted into passive voice?
A:-We will invite him to the meeting.
B:-Let him be invited to the meeting.
C:-Let us invite him to the meeting.
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question87:-“And” is an example of __________
A:-Subordinating conjunction
B:-Correlative conjunction
C:-Co-ordinating conjunction
D:-None of the above
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Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question88:-A ___________ is made up of two or more main clauses.
A:-Simple sentence
B:-Complex sentence
C:-Kernel sentence
D:-Compound sentence
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question89:-He will say, “I am not well.”
Which among the following options is true, when the above sentence is converted into indirect speech?
A:-He will say that he is not well.
B:-He would say that he is not well.
C:-He will say that he was not well.
D:-He would say that he was not well.
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question90:-Tom offered __________ us to the railway station.
A:-drive
B:-driving
C:-to drive
D:-driver
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question91:-Who proposed the concept of Radical Behaviourism?
A:-Watson
B:-Jung
C:-Freud
D:-Skinner
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question92:-Who authored the book The Teacher’s Word Book
A:-Thorndike
B:-Pavlov
C:-Maslow
D:-Irving Lorge
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question93:-The founder of Constructivism
A:-Seymer Papert
B:-Jean Piaget
C:-Dewey
D:-Edgar Morin
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question94:-Stephen Krashen’s name is associated with
A:-Operant Conditioning
B:-b) Educational Psychology
C:-Theory of Second Language Acquisition
D:-Knowledge Theory
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question95:-T L stands for
A:-Total Linguistics
B:-Total Language
C:-Target Language
D:-Theory of Languages
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question96:-In which method of teaching, stress is being given to pronunciation?
A:-Direct Method
B:-Grammar translation Method
C:-Audio-lingual
D:-Indirect Method
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question97:-ICT means
A:-Information and Collaborative Technology
B:-Information and Communicable Technology
C:-Information and Communication Technology
D:-Internal Communication Theory
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question98:-The educational testing must be
A:-reliable
B:-subjective
C:-biased
D:-rigid
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question99:-Kinesthetic learners are
A:-fast learners
B:-read-write learners
C:-listeners for verbalizing
D:-Using all their senses for learning
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question100:-Kerala Curriculum Framework (KCF) was published in
A:-1997
B:-2000
C:-2003
D:-2007
Correct Answer:- Option-D
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