Higher Secondary School Teacher English Answer Key 35/2018

Post : Higher Secondary School Teacher English
Department : Kerala Higher Secondary Education
Category Code : 246/2017, 163/2017, 166/2017
Qualification : Master's Degree in English, B.Ed Degree in English + Must have passed the State Eligibility Test for the post of Higher Secondary School Teachers conducted by Government of Kerala or by the agency authorized by the State Government.
Question Paper Code : 35/18
Date of Test : 28-02-2018

1. The C.M.S Missionary who propagated the idea of primary education in Alleppey.
   • James Roberts
   • Claudius Buchanan
   • Thomas Norton
   • W.T. Ringletaube
   
   
2. The event which led to the Temple Entry Proclamation by the Kochi Raja in 1947 - 48.
   • Guruvayur Satyagraha
   • Paliyam Satyagraha
   • Vaikom Satyagraha
   • Payannur Satyagraha
   
   
3. The autobiography ‘Atmakatha’ was written by :
   • Arya Pallam
   • Akkamma Cheriyan
   • Lalithambika Antharjanam
   • Anna Chandy
   
   
4. The Social reformer who adopted the method of ‘Misrabhojanam’ to fight against the evils of the caste system.
   • Sahodara Ayyappan
   • Ayyankali
   • Chattampi Swamikal
   • Sree Narayana Guru
   
   
5. Kerala Sahitya Charitram was his monumental work published in Five volumes after his death.
   • Chandu Menon
   • Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer
   • G. Sankara Kurup
   • Keshav Dev
   
   
6. One of the potential sites for Biosphere Reserves selected by the Ministry of Forests and Environment in India.
   • Marina Beach
   • Tajpur Beach
   • Kovalam Beach
   • Colva Beach
   
   
7. The Classical Japanese dance drama.
   • Talchum
   • Kabuki
   • Xiangsheng
   • Wayang Wong
   
   
8. The largest inland body of water in the world.
   • Lake Michigan
   • Lake Victoria
   • Lake Huron
   • Caspian Sea
   
   
9. The present U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres was the former prime minister of :
   • Spain
   • Portugal
   • Germany
   • Estonia
   
   
10. The winner of the I.B.S.F world Billards championship held at Doha.
    • Rupesh Shah
    • Peter Gilchrist
    • Pankaj Advani
    • Mike Russell
    
    
11. Which of the following is not regarded as a salient feature of Indian constitution?
    • Universal Adult Franchise
    • Quasi Federal nature
    • Dual Citizenship
    • Judicial Review
    
    
12. The term ‘integrity’ in the preamble of Indian Constitution was inserted by the :
    • 39th Amendment Act
    • 40th Amendment Act
    • 41st Amendment Act
    • 42nd Amendment Act
    
    
13. Which of the following statement is false regarding Emergency Provisions in Indian Constitution?
    • Before the expiry of one month from the date of declaration of emergency, both the Houses of Parliament need to approve it by resolution.
    • The fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 19 would be non-existent against the State during the operation of the proclamation of emergency.
    • The proclamation of emergency is not subjected to judicial review.
    • During the operation of proclamation of emergency the State government will be under the complete control of the Union Executive.
    
    
14. Which of the following is not regarded as an office of profit for the election of the President of India?
    • Vice President
    • Governor of any State
    • Minister of any State
    • None of these
    
    
15. “No person accused of any offense shall be compelled to be a witness against him.” This right is provided in :
    • Article 19 of the Indian Constitution
    • Article 20 of the Indian Constitution
    • Article 21 of the Indian Constitution
    • Article 22 of the Indian Constitution
    
    
16. Who among the following is not a member of the committee for the appointment of the Chief Information Commissioner under the Right to Information Act, 2005?
    • The Prime Minister
    • The leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha
    • The Speaker of Lok Sabha
    • A Union Cabinet Minister nominated by the Prime Minister
    
    
17. The officer appointed by the state government under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is called :
    • Probationary Officer
    • Protection Officer
    • Welfare Officer
    • Shelter Officer
    
    
18. An individual is considered as ‘child’ under the Protection of Child from Sexual Offence Act, 2012, if he or she is below the age of :
    • 14
    • 15
    • 16
    • 18
    
    
19. According to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 the state government shall make schemes for providing employment for not less than _________ days to every household in the rural area in a financial year.
    • 160 days
    • 100 days
    • 60 days
    • 90 days
    
    
20. Which one of the following is not a salient feature of the National Food Security Act, 2013?
    • Every State government shall constitute a State Food Commission
    • The eldest woman member who is not less than 18 years of age shall be the head of the household for the purpose of issue of ration card
    • Every State government shall appoint or designate an officer to be the District Grievance Redressal Official
    • Any Public Servant or authority found guilty of not implementing the provisions of this Act will get a punishment of 6 months imprisonment and fine up to ` 1000.
    
    
21. ‘A scaled down teaching encounter in class, size and time’ known as :
    • Team teaching
    • Debate
    • Micro Teaching
    • Models of Teaching
    
    
22. Which one of the following does not come under Affective domain?
    • Responding
    • Creating
    • Organising
    • Receiving
    
    
23. Number the following correctly on the basis of direct concrete experience to the most indirect abstract experience.
    (i) Contrived experience
    (ii) Motion pictures
    (iii) Field trips
    (iv) Radio Recording
    • (i), (ii), (iv), (iii)
    • (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
    • (iv), (iii), (ii), (i)
    • (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)
    
    
24. A practice of comparing present achievement against the previous achievement of a learner.
    • Summative
    • Formative
    • Criterion referenced
    • Ipsative
    
    
25. Abbreviation of ‘MOOC’ is :
    • Management of online courses
    • Multimedia online course
    • Massive open online course
    • Master of online certificate course.
    
    
26. Ethnographic research comes under :
    • Historical research
    • Descriptive research
    • Experimental research
    • Phenomenological research
    
    
27. The formula to find out chi-square (χ2) is :
    • χ2 = Σ[(fo-fe)²/fe]
    • χ2 = Σ[(fo-fe)/fe]²
    • χ2 = Σ[(fo-fe)/fe²]
    • χ2 = Σ[(fo-fe)²/fo]
    
    
28. ‘The conditions or characteristics that the experimenter manipulates or controls in his or her attempt to ascertain their relationship to observed phenomena is known as :
    • Intervening variables
    • Extraneous variable
    • Independent variable
    • Dependent variable
    
    
29. ‘Proxemics’ is the study of :
    • Body movements
    • People’s use of space and its relationship to culture
    • Individual life stories
    • Study of local history of Schools
    
    
30. The Standard deviation of sampling distribution of a statistic is known as :
    • F-test
    • Mean Deviation
    • Standard error
    • Type I error
    
    
31. “Crafty men condemen studies, simple men admire them and wise men __________ them.”
    • preserve them
    • ignore them
    • memorize them
    • use them
    
    
32. Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All”?
    • The Prioress
    • The Wife of Bath
    • The Monk
    • The Squire
    
    
33. In which meter did John Milton Write the Book IX of Paradise Lost?
    • Free verse
    • Regular meter
    • Blank Verse
    • Verse libre
    
    
34. “Thy _________ makes my circle just And makes me end where I began”.
    • soul
    • weakness
    • firmness
    • strength
    
    
35. Who among the following is not a Graveyard poet?
    • Thomas Gray
    • Edward Young
    • Thomas Parnell
    • Alexander Pope
    
    
36. Which statement is true regarding the two plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malphi?
    • Both are tragedies that deal with the revenge motif.
    • Both are tragicomedies in which all the female characters are killed.
    • Both are tragicomedies that deal with historical themes.
    • Both plays were written in 1620.
    
    
37. Where does Act 1 scene 1 of William Congreve’s Way of the World open?
    • a pub
    • a chocolate house
    • a Carrefour
    • the drawing room of Sir Willfull’s mansion
    
    
38. What does the inscription that appears on Dr Faustus’s arm O Homo fuge mean?
    • O Man, cry
    • O Man, fly
    • O Man, sink
    • O Man, walk
    
    
39. Who was the famous playwright mentioned thrice in Mac Flecknoe whom Thomas Shadwell greatly admired?
    • Ben Jonson
    • William Shakespeare
    • Richard Flecknoe
    • Tennessee Williams
    
    
40. Who was the publisher of the Shakespearean sonnets?
    • William Herbert
    • Henry Wriothesley
    • Thomas Thorpe
    • William Hall
    
    
41. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”. This sentence occurs in :
    • Sense and sensibility
    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Mansfield Park
    • Emma
    
    
42. Who wrote the preface to the second edition of ‘Wuthering Heights’?
    • Mrs. Gaskell
    • D.G. Rossetti
    • Branwell
    • Charlotte Bronte
    
    
43. Name of the pupil friend of Jane Eyre at Lowood School :
    • Helen Burns
    • Adele Varens
    • Fanny
    • Eliza
    
    
44. “The Mill on the Floss” was first published in :
    • 1861
    • 1860
    • 1859
    • 1857
    
    
45. Name Cecily Cardew’s governess in “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
    • Mrs. Moncrieff
    • Lady Bracknell
    • Miss. Prism
    • Miss. Burnbury
    
    
46. Which is the scene of the tragic incidents in “The Dream Children”?
    • A great house in Norfolk
    • A farmhouse in Southampton
    • An old house in Southampton
    • A farmhouse in Norfolk
    
    
47. “O Lady! We receive but what we give.” Who is the lady referred to here?
    • Wordsworth’s sister
    • Nature
    • Coleridge’s sister
    • Sara Hutchinson
    
    
48. The flowers that the blessed Damozel had in her hands are :
    • Roses
    • Violets
    • Lilies
    • Lotus
    
    
49. The sub-title of “Windhover” is :
    • From Christ our lord
    • Submit befer you O! Lord
    • To Christ our Lord
    • O! Christ My Lord
    
    
50. “Death Closes All” - appears in :
    • Browning’s “My Last Duchess”
    • Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
    • Milton’s ‘Lycidas’
    • Coleridge’s “Dejection-An Ode.”
    
    
51. Who is described as ‘a drunken vain glorious lout in yeats’ Easter 1916?
    • Maud Gonne
    • John Mac Bride
    • W.H. Auden
    • Dylan Thomas
    
    
52. Harold Pinter’s plays are usually associated with the theatre of __________.
    • Elizabethan age
    • The Absurd
    • Abbey Theatre
    • The intellectual
    
    
53. Whose poetry abounds with animals symbols?
    • Sylvia Plath
    • Thom Gunn
    • Ted Hughes
    • William Blake
    
    
54. Who is the Protagonist in ‘The Waste Land’?
    • Belladona
    • Swansea
    • Sisyphus
    • Tiresias
    
    
55. Which character is the embodiment of reason and common sense in ‘The Lord of the Flies’?
    • Sam
    • Eric
    • Piggy
    • Ralph
    
    
56. What is the original title of ‘the portrait of the Artist as a Young man’?
    • Stephen Hero
    • Stephen Daedalus
    • Stephen Spender
    • Edmund Bond
    
    
57. Philip Larkin belonged to the __________ of poetry.
    • The Brownian School
    • The Liberal School
    • The Movement School
    • The Traditional School
    
    
58. Who authored the book ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’?
    • Doris Lessing
    • Graham Greene
    • James Joyce
    • Allen Sillitoe
    
    
59. Name the playwright who tells his audience “I must warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures”.
    • Samuel Becket
    • Edward Bond
    • George Bernard shaw
    • J.M Synge
    
    
60. ‘The Waste Land’ was published in the year __________.
    • 1920
    • 1919
    • 1922
    • 1931
    
    
61. Michel Foucault views the author as :
    • Creator of meaning
    • Function
    • Historical figure
    • Individual Consciousness
    
    
62. The method according to which old names can be utilized in new circumstances is :
    • Iterability
    • Neologistics
    • Entame
    • Paleonymy
    
    
63. Which among the following is the Vignaa caused by lack of training on the part of the Sahrudaya?
    • Lack of clarity and time
    • Intrusion of space
    • Possibility of doubt
    • Improbability of theme
    
    
64. According to T.S. Eliot, emotion of art is :
    • Impersonal
    • Inaccurate
    • Spontaneous
    • Personal
    
    
65. Gynocriticism aims to :
    • Understand specificity of women’s writing as a product of sexism.
    • Adopt male models and theories
    • Erase differences between male and female writing
    • Understand women’s writing as a fundamental aspects of female reality.
    
    
66. Sharankumar Limbala states that dalit literature emerges from.
    • Imagination
    • Experience
    • Exploitation
    • Repression
    
    
67. Periphrasis is :
    • Inversion of Word order
    • Circumlocution
    • Pursuit of novelty
    • Dignified composition
    
    
68. ‘Art as Technique’ highlights the concept of :
    • Alienation
    • Concretization
    • Defamiliarization
    • Historical sense
    
    
69. The statement ‘One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry’ was made by :
    • Longinus
    • Plato
    • Sidney
    • Aristotle
    
    
70. Which poem by Wordsworth is cited by Cleanth Brooks as based on a paradoxical situation?
    • It is a beauteous evening
    • Lucy Gray
    • Daffodils
    • The Solitary Reaper
    
    
71. The way in which linguistic elements are put together to form phrases or clauses are called :
    • semantics
    • syntax
    • deconstruction
    • phonetics
    
    
72. Specific features that are superimposed on the utterance of speech are :
    • Suprasegmentals
    • Stress
    • intonation
    • Phonemes
    
    
73. “Derivation” and “compounding” are terms related to __________.
    • Vocabulary
    • Grammar
    • Morphology
    • Phonology
    
    
74. Naom Chomsky is generally associated with :
    • Generative Grammar
    • Traditional Grammar
    • Informal Grammar
    • English Grammar
    
    
75. The signifier and the signified are terms used in the linguistic theory of :
    • I.A. Richards
    • Ferdinand Saussure
    • T.S. Eliot
    • Roland Barthes
    
    
76. The first Germanic sound shift is also known as :
    • Verner’s Law
    • Grimm’s Law
    • Kluges Law
    • None of these
    
    
77. Kentish, Mexican, Northumbrian etc are __________ dialects.
    • Middle English
    • Standard English
    • Modern English
    • Old English
    
    
78. The Language variety unique to a single speaker of a language is called __________.
    • dialect
    • syntax
    • phonetics
    • idiolect
    
    
79. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” is an example of __________ dialect.
    • German
    • Middle English
    • Old English
    • Pidgin English
    
    
80. The classical words found a way to the English language since the __________.
    • Renaissance
    • Norman Conquest
    • Industrial Revolution
    • Romantic Revival
    
    
81. Name the author of the poem Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher.
    • Tagore
    • A.K. Ramanujan
    • Nissim Ezekiel
    • Dilip Chithre
    
    
82. Which tree is immortalized by Toru Dutt in her autobiographical poem?
    • Neermathala
    • Casuarina
    • Pepal Tree
    • Neem
    
    
83. Who is the third occupant in the Carriage described in Emily Dickinson’s poem Because I could not Stop for Death?
    • Death
    • Childhood
    • Poet
    • Immortality
    
    
84. Kamaladas’s concept of language in the poem Introduction.
    • Writes in three
    • Speak two
    • Knows three
    • Dream in one
    
    
85. Which Road did the traveler choose in Robert Frost’s poem Road Not Taken?
    • The less traveled road
    • The one covered with leaves
    • The neatly paved one
    • The grassy pathway.
    
    
86. The heads of Devadatta and __________ were interchanged in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana.
    • Bhagavanta
    • Hayavadana
    • Kapila
    • Padmini
    
    
87. Brutus in Eugene O ‘Neil’s play Emperor Jones Keeps his followers under control with his much acclaimed __________.
    • Rifle
    • Silver Bullet
    • Cartridge
    • Gun Powder
    
    
88. The broken Unicorn is the symbol of _________ in the play Glass Menagerie.
    • Laura
    • Amanda Wingfield
    • Blue Roses
    • Gentleman Caller
    
    
89. What time did the clock hands show at Salim Sinai’s birth in The midnight’s children?
    • 10.10 A.M.
    • 12 midnight
    • 1.00 A.M.
    • 12.30 P.M.
    
    
90. Which letter is used to brand the protagonist in Hawthorn’s novel The Scarlet Letter?
    • X
    • S
    • A
    • Z
    
    
91. “Black Skin, White Masks” is a work by __________.
    • Edward. W. Said
    • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
    • Frantz Fanon
    • Aimé Césaire
    
    
92. An inter disciplinary approach to the relation between literature and environment is found in __________.
    • Deep Ecology
    • Eco criticism
    • Environmentalism
    • Green movement
    
    
93. “Enemies, A Love Story” is a __________ narrative by I saac Bashevis Singer.
    • Holocaust
    • Chicana
    • Bayesian
    • Fable
    
    
94. The feminist anthology “This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color” is edited by __________.
    • Juanita Ramos
    • Ana Castillo
    • Gloria Anzaladua and Cherrie Moraga
    • Cherrie Moraga and Juanita Ramos
    
    
95. The terms “Lesbian existence” and “Lesbian Continuum” were advocated by _________.
    • Diana Fuss
    • Adrienne Rich
    • Alcaeus
    • Judith Butler
    
    
96. The terms “thick description” was used by the anthropologist clifford Geertz in his work __________.
    • Cultural Materialism
    • The New Historicism
    • Modern Literary Theory
    • The Interpretation of Cultures
    
    
97. The term “Culture Industry” is associated with __________.
    • Terry Eagleton and Marshall Mcluhan
    • Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
    • Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall
    • Herbert Marcuse and Jean Baudrillard
    
    
98. The German sociologist who is the author of “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” _________.
    • Wilhelm Dilthey
    • Jurgen Habermas
    • Hans Joas
    • George Simmel
    
    
99. The author of “The Post Modern Condition” :
    • Jean - Francois Lyotard
    • Jurgen Habermas
    • Gilles Deleuze
    • Felix Guattari
    
    
100. __________ is a key feature of diasporic literature.
     • Displacement
     • Distortion
     • Fragmentation
     • Deconstruction