HSST ENGLISH – SR FOR SC/ST – KHSE

PROVISIONAL ANSWER KEY
Question Paper Code: 70/2016/OL
Category Code: 034/2016
Exam: HSST English SR for SC/St
Medium of Question: English
Date of Test 08-09-2016
Alphacode A
Question1:-Who won 2016 Austrian Open title of Tennis (Grand Slam) in women’s category ?
A:-Steffy Graf
B:-Sereena Williams
C:-Angelique Kerber
D:-Saniya Mirza
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question2:-Which is the specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping ?
A:-UNESCO
B:-WHO
C:-IMF
D:-IMO
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question3:-Who is remembered as the patron saint of India’s Civil Service for establishing modern All India Service ?
A:-Sardhar Vallabhabhai Patel
B:-Nehru
C:-A. K. Gopalan
D:-Surendra Nath Banerjee
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question4:-Who is the present RBI Governor ?
A:-N.C. Sen Gupta
B:-Raghuram Rajan
C:-D. Subbarao
D:-Y. V. Reddy
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question5:-Who was selected as the best film actress in 2015 national award for her performance in film Queen ?
A:-Kangana Ranaut
B:-Sabana Azmi
C:-Geetanjali Thapar
D:-Deepika Padukon
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question6:-The ruler who issued Royal proclamation abolishing slavery in Travancore ?
A:-Sri Chithira Thirunnal
B:-Swathi Thirunnal
C:-Raja Kesavadas
D:-Rani Gouri Lakshmi Bai
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question7:-Which is the longest river in Kerala ?
A:-Bharatha Puzha
B:-Periyar
C:-Pamba
D:-Nila
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question8:-The first women to become a member in Travancore legislative assembly ?
A:-Akkama Cherian
B:-Lalitha Prabhu
C:-Mary Punnen Lukkose
D:-Anna Chandi
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question9:-The founder and editor of women’s Magazine Shrimathi ?
A:-A. V. Kuttimalu Amma
B:-Akkama Cherian
C:-Lalitha Prabhu
D:-Anna Chandi
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question10:-Who consecrated Ezhava Siva at Aruvippuram ?
A:-Kumaran Asan
B:-Sreenarayana Guru
C:-Chattambi Swamikal
D:-Vaikuta Swamikal
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question11:-Teacher pupil interaction inside the classroom should generate
A:-Argument
B:-Data
C:-Ideas
D:-Controversy
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question12:-In order to have an efficient learning, learner should have
A:-Opportunities to learn only
B:-Requisite level of motivation only
C:-Ability to learn only
D:-Desired level of ability and motivation
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question13:-“Spare the rod and spoil the child”, gives the message that
A:-Judiciously use the punishment in the class
B:-Corporal punishment is not acceptable
C:-Undesirable behaviour must be punished
D:-Children should be beaten with rods
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question14:-With respect to the development of skills, which one is the correct answer ?
A:-Children of same mental age should learn at the same rate
B:-Interaction among children in the class increases the skills
C:-Group instruction facilitates the learning process
D:-Workbooks can be invaluable learning aid
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question15:-Evaluate feedback in the class should be provided through
A:-Use correction, not criticism, in respect to inappropriate responses
B:-Provide immediate feedback
C:-Do not provide non constructive comments for evaluating activities
D:-All of these
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question16:-Which of the following statement is correct ?
A:-Discoveries are researches
B:-Researches lead to discovery
C:-Invention and Research are related
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question17:-A research article is a brief report of research work based on
A:-Primary Data only
B:-Secondary Data only
C:-Both Primary and Secondary Data
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question18:-Which of the following is non-probability sampling ?
A:-Snowball
B:-Random
C:-Cluster
D:-Stratified
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question19:-Qualitative research approaches have
A:-A focus on natural settings
B:-Concern with inductive analysis and grounded theory
C:-An emphasis on process
D:-All the above
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question20:-The ethical debates in qualitative research revolve around
A:-Covert and overt research
B:-Public’s right to know
C:-The subject’s right to privacy
D:-All the above
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question21:-The right of Children to have free and compulsory education up to the age of 14 was made a fundamental right
under Article 21A of Indian Constitution in
A:-2001
B:-2002
C:-2003
D:-2004
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question22:-The function of National Judicial Appointment Commission is not to
A:-To recommend persons for appointment of Chief Justice and other judges of Supreme Court and High Courts
B:-To recommend transfer of Chief Justice and other judges of Supreme Court and High Courts
C:-To ensure that person recommended is a ability and integrity
D:-To remove the Chief Justice and other judges of Supreme Court and High Courts
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question23:-The term “Secular” was inserted in the preamble of our Constitution by
A:-`42^(nd)` Amendment to the Constitution
B:-`44^(th)` Amendment to the Constitution
C:-`43^(rd)` Amendment to the Constitution
D:-`25^(th)` Amendment to the Constitution
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question24:-An Amendment to Article 368 of Indian Constitution requires
A:-Simple majority
B:-Special majority
C:-Special majority and ratification of the states
D:-None of these
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question25:-Indian Constitution is composed of following parts and schedules
A:-20 parts and 9 schedules
B:-19 parts and 8 schedules
C:-25 parts and 10 schedules
D:-25 parts and 12 schedules
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question26:-Name the employment scheme of Government of India that guarantee 100 days of wage employment in a
financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled work.
A:-Janani Suraksha Yojana
B:-National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
C:-Rajiv Avaz Yojana
D:-Admi Bima Yojana
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question27:-The permission for import and export of Hazardous Waste in to or out of India is granted by
A:-Ministry of Shipping
B:-Ministry of Foreign Affairs
C:-Ministry of Environment and Forests
D:-None of these
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question28:-Right to receive food security allowance is a guaranteed right according to
A:-The National Food Security Act, 2014
B:-Food Safety Standards Act, 2006
C:-Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
D:-None of these
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question29:-The information sought by an applicant under the Right to Information Act, 2005 shall be supplied within
A:-15 days
B:-45 days
C:-30 days
D:-None of these
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question30:-People’s Biodiversity Register shall contain comprehensive information on
A:-Availability and knowledge of local biological resources
B:-Medicinal and other uses of biological resources
C:-Traditional knowledge associated with biological resources
D:-All of these
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question31:-Which play’s epilogue is considered as Shakespeare’s farewell to theatre ?
A:-Henry VIII
B:-The Winter’s Tale
C:-The Tempest
D:-Measure for Measure
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question32:-In Hamlet who says “The lady doth protest too much” ?
A:-Hamlet
B:-Gertrude
C:-Polonius
D:-Ophelia
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question33:-Lady Bellaston is a character from the novel
A:-Oliver Twist
B:-The Mayor of Casterbridge
C:-Tom Jones
D:-Joseph Andrews
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question34:-In Pope’s Atticus passage of “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”, who is Atticus compared to in an attempt to describe his
habit of blowing his own trumpet ?
A:-Cato
B:-Cicero
C:-Catellus
D:-Sporus
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question35:-Name the character in the Duchess of Malfi who may be described as a murderer who speaks poetry ?
A:-Ferdinand
B:-Antonio
C:-Bosola
D:-The Cardinal
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question36:-In which work of Johnson does he mention the phrase ‘discordia concors’ to explain the wit of Metaphysical
poets ?
A:-Life of Cowley
B:-Life of Milton
C:-Life of Herbert
D:-Life of Addison
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question37:-Which essay of Bacon starts with a reference to Pilate from the Bible ?
A:-Of Studies
B:-Of Truth
C:-Of Love
D:-Of Death
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question38:-Who is described in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales as “an outrider who loved hunting” ?
A:-Knight
B:-Squire
C:-Friar
D:-Monk
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question39:-A School for Scandal was performed for the first time at
A:-Drury Lane
B:-Queen’s Theatre
C:-Globe
D:-Playhouse
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question40:-Who among Shakespeare’s characters said, “If music is the food of love, play on” ?
A:-Malvolio
B:-Duke Orsino
C:-Antonio
D:-Sebastian
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question41:-Which poem inspired Rossetti to pen the “The Blessed Damozel” ?
A:-“The Raven”
B:-“Prophyria’s Lover”
C:-“Christabel”
D:-“Lucy Gray”
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question42:-Name the Feminist critic who read Wuthering Heights as Emily Bronte’s myth about creation.
A:-Susan Gubar
B:-Elaine Showalter
C:-Sandra Gilbert
D:-Judith Fetterly
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question43:-Which quality of his wife’s had, according to Henchard done him “more harm than the bitterest temper” ?
A:-Piety
B:-Meekness
C:-Humility
D:-Modesty
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question44:-Who is the author of Fearful Symmetry ?
A:-C.M. Bowra
B:-M.H. Abrams
C:-Eric Auerbach
D:-Northrope Frye
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question45:-“Behold the child among his new-born blisses”. Whose son is referred to in these lines from “Immortality Ode” ?
A:-Wordsworth’s
B:-Coleridge’s
C:-Southey’s
D:-Shelley’s
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question46:-“If Austen’s is an art of the cameo, Dicken’s is one of the poster”. Which critic said this ?
A:-Terry Eagleton
B:-Arnold Kettle
C:-David Daiches
D:-David Lodge
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question47:-Ernest is the fictitious identity of __________ in importance of Being Earnest.
A:-Jack Worthing
B:-Algernon
C:-Dr. Frederick
D:-Rev. Chasuble
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question48:-Which character in Pride and Prejudice stands testimony to Austen’s distaste for high aristocracy ?
A:-Catherine Morland
B:-Mrs. Norris
C:-Catherine de Bourgh
D:-Fanny Price
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question49:-Which poem of Hopkins is dedicated to ‘Christ our Lord’ ?
A:-“God’s Grandeur”
B:-“Pied Beauty”
C:-“The Windhover”
D:-“Inversnaid”
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question50:-Whom does Lamb describe as “the most irrelevant thing in nature”, “a lion in your path”, “A Lazarus at your
door” and so on in one of his essays ?
A:-A drunkard
B:-Poor relation
C:-A clerk in South Sea House
D:-A bachelor
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question51:-In the myth of Pygmalion, who brings about the transformation of Galatea ?
A:-Athena
B:-Demeter
C:-Aphrodite
D:-Venus
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question52:-“I leave you to the pleasures of your higher vices”, says the first Tempter in Murder in the Cathedral. What is
the “higher vice” mentioned ?
A:-Material glories
B:-Ambition
C:-Spiritual pride
D:-Loyalty to the King
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question53:-Name the character in Waiting for Godot who can’t think without his bowler ?
A:-Estrogen
B:-Vladimir
C:-Pozzo
D:-Lucky
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question54:-The title “A Game of Chess” which forms the II section of “The Wasteland” is borrowed from the title of which
dramatist’s play ?
A:-Richard Sheridan
B:-Thomas Middleton
C:-Congreve
D:-Webster
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question55:-Dylan Thomas’ “Poem in October” commemorates his birthday. Which one ?
A:-`30^(th)`
B:-`35^(th)`
C:-`40^(th)`
D:-`39^(th)`
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question56:-From among the following poets pick out the one who is not a Movement poet ?
A:-John Wain
B:-John Holloway
C:-Kingsley Amis
D:-Peter Porter
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question57:-Seamus Heaney’s “Tollund man” foregrounds his __________ perspective.
A:-Political
B:-Catholic
C:-Archaeological
D:-Mythical
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question58:-Who is the Christ figure in Lord of the Flies ?
A:-Simon
B:-Ralph
C:-Jack
D:-Piggy
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question59:-Anna in The Golden Notebook has a rejuvenating experience towards the end with
A:-Saul
B:-Paul
C:-Michael
D:-Tom
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question60:-The setting for Greene’s The Heart of the Matter is a British Colony in
A:-South Africa
B:-West Africa
C:-Jamaica
D:-Canada
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question61:-According to Aristotle ___________ “is very artless and least particular to the art of poetic composition.”
A:-Diction
B:-Character
C:-Song
D:-Spectacle
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question62:-“His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be ____________”. Complete the quote by Johnson on Shakespeare.
A:-Instinct
B:-Nature
C:-Competent
D:-Contrived
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question63:-In Rasa theory, the bodily expression by which emotion is communicated is called
A:-Vyabhicari
B:-Anubhava
C:-Vibhava
D:-Alambana
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question64:-The two poets on whom Arnold puts the charge of lacking “high seriousness” are
A:-Shakespeare and Dante
B:-Burns and Chaucer
C:-Shelley and Gray
D:-Pope and Dryden
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question65:-From which collection of essays is Lionel Trilling’s “Freud and Literature” taken ?
A:-The Opposing Self
B:-Beyond Culture
C:-The Liberal imagination
D:-Psychoanalysis and literature
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question66:-The male critic whom Elaine Showalter identifies as a prime example of androcentric criticism in her 1979
essay is
A:-Irving Howe
B:-Lionel Trilling
C:-Malcolm Bradbury
D:-Mark Schorer
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question67:-To what chemical process does T.S. Eliot compare the poetic process in “Tradition and Individual Talent” ?
A:-Fission
B:-Fusion
C:-Catalytic reaction
D:-Exothermic reaction
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question68:-In “What is an Author” ? Foucault argues that the author is
A:-An individual
B:-Dead
C:-An author function
D:-Owner of a work
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question69:-“The Language of Paradox” was first published in
A:-1950
B:-1945
C:-1948
D:-1942
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question70:-The literary term for transferring the usual perception of an object into the sphere of a new perception to make
a unique semantic modification is called
A:-Formalism
B:-Alienation
C:-Defamiliarisation
D:-Aesthetics
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question71:-__________ was formulated to explain how the Great Consonant Shift happened.
A:-Verner’s Law
B:-Grimm’s Law
C:-Wave theory
D:-Pedigree theory
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question72:-The structural device that formed an essential part of versification in Old English is
A:-Alliteration
B:-Assonance
C:-Rhythm
D:-Caesura
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question73:-The Middle English period begins with the __________ conquest.
A:-Norman
B:-Roman
C:-Anglo Saxon
D:-Jutes
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question74:-What were the striking differences between Chaucerian and present day pronunciations due to?
A:-The Great Consonant Shift
B:-Spread of Education
C:-Invention of Printing
D:-The Great Vowel Shift
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question75:-The shifting of stress from the initial syllable was the result of ________ influence.
A:-Greek
B:-French
C:-Latin
D:-Indian
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question76:-The formation of the word ‘atone’ from the old usage ‘at one’ is an example of
A:-Back-formation
B:-Compounding
C:-Syncopation
D:-Telescoping
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question77:-The word ‘pandemonium’ is the contribution of
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Milton
C:-Spenser
D:-Chaucer
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question78:-The ways in which sounds influence each other is called
A:-Elision
B:-Juncture
C:-Assimilation
D:-Aspiration
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question79:-Transformational Generative Grammar was first introduced by
A:-Halliday
B:-Chomsky
C:-Bloomfield
D:-Zellig Harris
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question80:-Who is the proponent of the approach called descriptive linguistics ?
A:-Bloomfield
B:-Sapir
C:-Jakobson
D:-Chomsky
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question81:-“I must work fast, faster than Scheherazade”. From which Indian English novel is this quote taken ?
A:-Shadow Lines
B:-God of Small Things
C:-English Patient
D:-Midnight’s Children
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question82:-The narrative cycle in The Bluest Eye begins with the ______ season.
A:-Autumn
B:-Spring
C:-Winter
D:-Summer
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question83:-To which frost collection does “The Road Not Taken” belong ?
A:-A Boy’s Will
B:-North of Boston
C:-New Hampshire
D:-Mountain Interval
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question84:-What imagery is used in “Daddy” to describe the husband ?
A:-Black shoe
B:-Ghastly statue
C:-Swastika
D:-Vampire
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question85:-Ezekial’s “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” is taken from
A:-Hymns in Darkness
B:-The Exact Name
C:-The Unfinished Man
D:-A Time to Change
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question86:-Who in The Glass Menagerie is the chief spokesperson for the American dream ?
A:-Amanda
B:-Jim
C:-Tom
D:-Laura
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question87:-From where is the title of Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury taken ?
A:-Tempest
B:-Dr. Faustus
C:-Macbeth
D:-Hamlet
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question88:-Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman” begins with a scathing attack on
A:-Stereotypes
B:-Men
C:-Society
D:-Women
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question89:-Which character in Padmanabhan’s Harvest tries to appropriate Jaya’s body in the final scene ?
A:-Virgil
B:-Zina Anaplioti
C:-Sam Chase
D:-Jeffrey Withers
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question90:-In which year was Ellison’s Invisible Man published ?
A:-1958
B:-1952
C:-1960
D:-1955
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question91:-Name the postcolonial critic who used the phrase ‘derivative discourse’ as the subtitle of his book which
challenges Benedict Anderson’s model.
A:-Aijaz Ahmed
B:-Homi Bhabha
C:-Partha Chatterjee
D:-Edward Said
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question92:-Which postcolonial critic, in reworking the Oedipal concept of identity formation, described colonialism as an
Oedipal scene of forbidden desire (for the white woman) ?
A:-Albert Memmi
B:-Benita Parry
C:-Aime Cesaire
D:-Frantz Fanon
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question93:-Who is the author of Epistemology of the Closet ?
A:-Judith Butler
B:-Eva Sedgwick
C:-Michael Warner
D:-Tobin Siebers
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question94:-A method based on the parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts is called
A:-New Historicism
B:-Cultural Materialism
C:-Pluralism
D:-Narratology
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question95:-The founder of Ecocriticism as an institutional movement in the USA is
A:-William Rueckert
B:-Karl Kroeber
C:-Cheryll Glotfelty
D:-Margaret Fuller
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question96:-Name the author of the work, Finding the Centre : Two Narratives, in which home is figured as an illusion for
immigrants.
A:-Homi Bhabha
B:-Salman Rushdie
C:-V.S. Naipaul
D:-Amitav Ghosh
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question97:-What is the term Homi Bhabha appropriates from Freud to describe border disruptions causing trauma and
anxiety that subvert binaries in diasporic identity constructions ?
A:-Hybridity
B:-Uncanny
C:-Oedipal
D:-Transference
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question98:-The idea that everything is a model or an image, all is surface without depth is termed _________ by Baudrillard.
A:-Simulation
B:-Simulacra
C:-Representation
D:-Hypereality
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question99:-The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is the work of
A:-Jurgen Habermas
B:-Nancy Fraser
C:-Stuart Hall
D:-Simon During
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question100:-Cultural Studies in Britain developed out of the work of __________ through Hoggart and Raymond Williams.
A:-Mathew Arnold
B:-F. R. Leavis
C:-Michel Foucault
D:-Theodor Adorno
Correct Answer:- Option-B