Kerala PSC Lecturer in English Exam 2015 Question Code 23/2015/OL

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Question Paper Code: 23/2015/OL
Category Code: 578/2012
Exam: Lecturer in English
Medium of Question: English
Date of Test 27-10-2015
Alphacode A

Question1:-First Governor of Kerala State :
A:-C. Raja Gopalachari
B:-Dr. A.R. Menon
C:-B. Ramakrishna Rao
D:-Venkata Rao
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question2:-The Indian Constitution has borrowed the idea of preamble from :
A:-Constitution of Canada
B:-British Constitution
C:-French Constitution
D:-Constitution of USA
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question3:-The 1st Bank in India :
A:-Bank of Hindustan
B:-State Bank of India
C:-Allahabad Bank
D:-Nedungadi Bank
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question4:-The person who won 'Dadasaheb Phalke' award of 2014 :
A:-Adoor Gopalakrishnan
B:-Shashi Kapoor
C:-Sayyid Misra
D:-Gireesh Karnad
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question5:-Telangana State is came into being existed on :
A:-January 2014
B:-May 2014
C:-March 2014
D:-June 2014
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question6:-Who was the founder of 'Islamia Public House' ?
A:-Vakkom Abdul Khadir Maulavi
B:-Ali Musaliyar
C:-Muhammed Abdur Rahiman
D:-Nazeem Sayyid
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question7:-The Nair Service Society was founded in the year :
A:-1903
B:-1911
C:-1914
D:-1918
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question8:-The Madrass Governor who issued orders permitting Channar women to wear Jacket and Pinafore ?
A:-Lord Wellesley
B:-Lord Haris
C:-Lord Macaulay
D:-Colonel Monroe
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question9:-Who was the Editor of the Newspaper 'Desabhimani' ?
A:-T.K. Madhavan
B:-C. Krishnan
C:-A.K. Pillai
D:-K. Kelappan
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question10:-'Varthamana Pustakam' the first travelogue in Malayalam was written by :
A:-Herman Gundart
B:-Jovannes Gonsalvez
C:-Paremekkal Thoma Kathanar
D:-Baily
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question11:-What aspect of the research report should be most concerned, when it is not peer reviewed ?
A:-The length of the report
B:-The implications of the research
C:-The quality of the research
D:-The authors sincerity
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question12:-Which of the following is not a form of qualitative research ?
A:-Ethnography
B:-Ex-post facto research
C:-Case study
D:-Phenomenological inquiry
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question13:-Who popularized action research ?
A:-John Lock
B:-Ken Springer
C:-Stephen M Corey
D:-Louis Cohen
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question14:-Longitudinal studies investigate :
A:-Different subjects over time
B:-Different subjects at the same time
C:-Same subjects at different levels
D:-Same subjects over time
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question15:-A suggested explanation for something, which has not been proved to be true is :
A:-Assumption
B:-Hypothesis
C:-Concept
D:-Delimitation
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question16:-Assessment used to monitor learning progress during instruction :
A:-Formative assessment
B:-Summative assessment
C:-Prognostic assessment
D:-CCE
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question17:-What is meant by Retro-active inhibition ?
A:-Failure to recall newly learned things by the influence of early learning
B:-Failure to assimilate new learning
C:-Failure to recall earlier learning due to the interference of new learning
D:-Failure to adjust with the new learning by the interference of environment
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question18:-'Drive Reduction Theory of Learning' is formulated by :
A:-Thorndike
B:-Pavlov
C:-Skinner
D:-Hull
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question19:-Reinforcement is a major principle in :
A:-Humanism
B:-Psycho-analysis
C:-Constructivism
D:-Behaviourism
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question20:-The personality of teachers influence the personality of students through a process of :
A:-Observation
B:-Imitation
C:-Psycho-osmosis
D:-Comparison
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question21:-The minimum number of members prescribed for a Legislative Assembly under Article 170(1) of the Constitution of India is __________ .
A:-forty
B:-fifty
C:-sixty
D:-seventy five
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question22:-Article 21-A was introduced into The Constitution of India through __________ .
A:-The Constitution (eighty-fifth Amendment) Act 2001
B:-The Constitution (eighty-sixth Amendment) Act 2002
C:-The Constitution (eighty-seventh Amendment) Act 2003
D:-The Constitution (eighty-eighth Amendment) Act 2003
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question23:-The Supreme Court has held that National Awards like 'Bharat Ratna', 'Padma Bhushan', etc. are not 'Titles' within the meaning of Article 18 in __________ .
A:-Balaji Raghavan v Union of India AIR 1996 SC 770
B:-Jaipal v State of Haryana AIR 1988 SC 1504
C:-John Vallamattom v Union of India AIR 2003 SC 2902
D:-Dharam Dutt v Union of India AIR 2004 SC 1295
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question24:-__________ of the Constitution of India directs the State to strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may, a social order in which justice, social economic and political, shall inform all the
institutions of the National life.
A:-Article 45
B:-Article 37
C:-Article 40
D:-Article 38(1)
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question25:-The Constitution of India imposes a duty upon citizens to safeguard public property and to abjure from violence through __________ .
A:-Article 51-A(c)
B:-Article 51-A(f)
C:-Article 51-A(i)
D:-Article 51-A(j)
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question26:-The Chief Information Commissioner under The Right to Information Act 2005 shall hold o?ce for a term of __________ from the date of entering office, subject to a maximum age of 65 years.
A:-Five years
B:-Six years
C:-Ten years
D:-Four years
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question28:-As per Section 4(1)(b) of The National Green Tribunal Act 2010, The Tribunal shall consist of a maximum of __________ full time Judicial members.
A:-five
B:-ten
C:-fifteen
D:-twenty
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question29:-As per Section 58, offences under The Biological Diversity Act 2002 shall be __________ .
A:-Bailable
B:-Non-cognizable
C:-Cognizable and non-bailable
D:-Compoundable
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question30:-Under Section 7(1) of The Mahatma Gandhi NREG Act 2005, if an applicant for employment under the scheme is not provided such employment within __________ of receipt of his application seeking employment, he shall be entitled
to a daily unemployment allowance.
A:-ten days
B:-fifteen days
C:-thirty days
D:-sixty days
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question31:-The return of which season is described in the opening of "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales ?
A:-Autumn
B:-Summer
C:-Spring
D:-Winter
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question32:-The pilgrims in "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales represent a cross section of __________ English society.
A:-Twelfth Century
B:-Thirteenth Century
C:-Fourteenth Century
D:-Fifteenth Century
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question33:-The two beautiful maidens in "Prothalamion" are the daughters of __________ .
A:-The Earl of Lancaster
B:-The Earl of Worcester
C:-The Earl of Leicester
D:-Lord Burghley
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question34:-/To this I witness call the fools of Time/
Which die for goodness who have lived for crime/
These lines are from Shakespeare's Sonnet __________ .
A:-Eighteen
B:-Twenty Nine
C:-Fifty Seven
D:-One Hundred and Twenty Four
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question35:-The number of lines in Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is __________ .
A:-Eighteen
B:-Thirty Six
C:-Fourteen
D:-Thirty Two
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question36:-The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
These lines are from a poem by :
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Thomas Gray
C:-John Dryden
D:-Alexander Pope
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question37:-According to Francis Bacon, the chief use for ornament in studies is in __________ .
A:-privateness
B:-retiring
C:-discourse
D:-judgement
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question38:-The servant of Faustus who uses his master's books to learn how to summon devils :
A:-Wagner
B:-Robin
C:-Rafe
D:-Cornelius
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question39:-The University where Hamlet studied :
A:-Wittenberg
B:-Oxford
C:-Cambridge
D:-Constantinople
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question40:-Crabtree is a character in :
A:-The Tempest
B:-The Rivals
C:-The Way of the World
D:-The School for Scandal
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question41:-"The Tiger" is __________ stanzas in length.
A:-four
B:-six
C:-eight
D:-nine
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question42:-"Ode on Intimations of Immortality" recollects __________ .
A:-Old age
B:-Childhood
C:-Middle age
D:-Early Childhood
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question43:-If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?
Who wrote this line ?
A:-Wordsworth
B:-Coleridge
C:-Shelly
D:-Keats
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question44:-Each stanza of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" consists of __________ lines.
A:-four
B:-six
C:-eight
D:-ten
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question45:-"Ulysses" is a poem written in __________ .
A:-Free verse
B:-Blank verse
C:-Rhymed verse
D:-Trochee
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question46:-The poem "My Last Duchess" is set during the late __________ .
A:-French Renaissance
B:-British Renaissance
C:-Spanish Renaissance
D:-Italian Renaissance
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question47:-Which sea is mentioned in connection with Sophocles in "Dover Beach" ?
A:-English Channel
B:-Red Sea
C:-Aegean Sea
D:-Strait of Dover
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question48:-Essays of Elia is collection of essays written by __________ .
A:-Dryden
B:-Charles Lamb
C:-J.S. Mill
D:-E.V. Lucas
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question49:-How many daughters Mrs. and Mr. Bennet have in Pride and Prejudice ?
A:-five
B:-six
C:-three
D:-four
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question50:-The alternate title of Oliver Twist is :
A:-A Rake's Progress
B:-The Orphan's Progress
C:-A Kid's Progress
D:-The Parish Boy's Progress
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question51:-What was the first title of W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" ?
A:-The Second Birth
B:-The Apocalypse Gyre
C:-The Rebirth
D:-The Widening
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question52:-The title of the third section of Eliot's The Waste Land is _________ .
A:-A Game of Chess
B:-Death by Water
C:-The Burial of the Dead
D:-The Fire Sermon
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question53:-The meaning of the word "simples" in "Church Going" :
A:-Herbs
B:-Irish coins
C:-Stones
D:-Articles
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question54:-Which King opposed Thomas Becket ?
A:-Henry II
B:-Henry IV
C:-Henry VI
D:-Henry VIII
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question55:-In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins was professor of __________ .
A:-Linguistics
B:-Literature
C:-Grammar
D:-Phonetics
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question56:-Which is the subtitle of the English version of Waiting for Godot ?
A:-a comedy in two acts
B:-a tragedy in two acts
C:-a comedy
D:-a tragicomedy in two acts
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question57:-Stanley Webber was a former __________ in The Birthday Party.
A:-Drum Player
B:-Piano Player
C:-Organ Player
D:-Opera Singer
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question58:-What is the name of Stephen Dedalus's father ?
A:-Simon
B:-Charles
C:-Cranly
D:-Henry
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question59:-When did Paul Morel become his mother's favourite ?
A:-after his birth
B:-after his affair with Clara
C:-after the birth of Arthur
D:-after the death of William
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question60:-The young painter who begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay :
A:-Minta
B:-Mrs. McNab
C:-Lily
D:-Cam
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question61:-"Theory of Rasa" is taken from __________ .
A:-Atharvaveda
B:-Natyasastra
C:-Upanishad
D:-Dhammapada
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question62:-Aristotle's Poetics is specifically concerned with __________ .
A:-tragedy
B:-comedy
C:-drama
D:-epic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question63:-"On the Sublime" was written by :
A:-Plato
B:-Aristotle
C:-Longinus
D:-Horace
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question64:-According to Dr. Johnson, "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of __________".
A:-mankind
B:-divinity
C:-love
D:-nature
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question65:-"Willing suspension of disbelief" figures in _________ .
A:-Preface to the Fables
B:-Study of Poetry
C:-Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
D:-Biographia Literaria
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question66:-Who authored Anatomy of Criticism ?
A:-Northrop Frye
B:-Matthew Arnold
C:-T.S. Eliot
D:-Cleanth Brooks
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question67:-According to Viktor Shklovsky, the technique of art is to make objects :
A:-familiar
B:-unfamiliar
C:-habitual
D:-aesthetic
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question68:-In classical thought the centre is within the structure and outside it because, according to Derrida, the centre escapes __________ .
A:-episteme
B:-play
C:-rupture
D:-structurality
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question69:-In "What is an author ?", Foucault considers __________ as characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation and functioning of certain discourses within a society and he analyses it elaborately.
A:-author
B:-authorship
C:-author-function
D:-ownership
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question70:-Who can write Dalit literature, according to Sharankumar Limbale ?
A:-a Dalit
B:-any writer
C:-a varna
D:-an avarna
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question71:-In philology, Grimm's law gives systematic statements on :
A:-Sound change
B:-Vowels
C:-Consonants
D:-Allophones
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question72:-Old English is also known as :
A:-Celtic
B:-Teutonic
C:-Gaelic
D:-Anglo-Saxon
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question73:-In which dialect was Beowulf written ?
A:-Wessex
B:-Sussex
C:-Manx
D:-Angles
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question74:-The Norman Conquest of England took place in __________ Century.
A:-9th
B:-10th
C:-11th
D:-12th
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question75:-Through the Great Vowel Shift, all Middle English _________ changed their pronunciation.
A:-long vowels
B:-short vowels
C:-semi vowels
D:-diphthongs
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question76:-How many second person personal pronouns were in Early Modern English ?
A:-one
B:-two
C:-three
D:-five
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question77:-How many varieties of English are in use globally ?
A:-Two
B:-Three
C:-Four
D:-Many
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question78:-Bloomfield is connected with __________ .
A:-Semantics
B:-Traditional Grammar
C:-American Structuralism
D:-Prague School
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question79:-TG Grammar is associated with :
A:-Sapir
B:-Chomsky
C:-Saussure
D:-Firth
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question80:-Creole is __________ .
A:-a combination of many languages
B:-a language developed from Pidgin
C:-a variety of English
D:-a combination of two languages
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question81:-Gitanjali was originally written in __________
A:-English
B:-Sanskrit
C:-Bengali
D:-Hindi
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question82:-Sri Aurobindo's full name is ___________ .
A:-Aurobindo Ghose
B:-Aurobindo Dhun
C:-Aurobindo Krishna
D:-Aravind Ghosh
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question83:-In "Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher", the best poets wait for __________ .
A:-Experience
B:-Images
C:-Love
D:-Words
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question84:-In "Road not Taken", two roads diverged in a ___________ .
A:-green forest
B:-yellow wood
C:-a green meadow
D:-a dark wood
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question85:-Which ocean is mentioned in "Daddy" ?
A:-Indian
B:-Pacific
C:-Atlantic
D:-Arctic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question86:-Who wrote "Philosophy of Hinduism" ?
A:-Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
B:-Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
C:-M.K. Gandhi
D:-Sri Aurobindo
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question87:-Emerson, in "Self Reliance" calls upon the individual to rely on :
A:-intuition
B:-conscience
C:-reason
D:-popular opinion
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question88:-The rebels believed that Emperor Jones could be killed only by a :
A:-Silver bullet
B:-Copper bullet
C:-Poisoned arrow
D:-White man
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question89:-In Midnight's Children, Saleem Sinai was held as a political prisoner during __________ .
A:-Independence struggle
B:-Partition of India
C:-15 August, 1947
D:-Emergency
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question90:-Manjula Padmanabhan's The Harvest is a play that can be termed as :
A:-Expressionistic
B:-Dadaist
C:-Futuristic
D:-Surrealistic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question91:-One of the following is considered a seminal text in Post Colonial Studies :
A:-The Laugh of the Medusa
B:-The Anxiety of Influence
C:-The Wretched of the Earth
D:-The Step Mother Tongue
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question92:-In relation to imperialism, colonialism specifically concerns __________ .
A:-trade
B:-conquest
C:-exploitation
D:-settlement
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question93:-Raymond Williams is associated with :
A:-Prague School
B:-Birmingham Centre
C:-Frankfurt School
D:-London School
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question95:-According to Baudrillard, 'hyperreal' is :
A:-Reality that is not true
B:-Copies of the real without origin
C:-Signs that are abstract
D:-The virtual world
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question96:-Stephen Greenblatt is a __________ .
A:-New Historicist
B:-Post Feminist
C:-Queer Theorist
D:-Cultural Materialist
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question97:-Epistemology of the Closet, a significant contribution to queer theory is authored by __________ .
A:-Kate Millett
B:-Julia Kristeva
C:-Juliet Mitchell
D:-Eve K Sedgwick
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question98:-Cyber feminists consider cyber culture as __________ .
A:-revolutionary
B:-reactionary
C:-antifeminist
D:-imperial
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question99:-The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is written by :
A:-Hegel
B:-Lyotard
C:-Habermas
D:-Jameson
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question100:-Glotfelty defines ecocriticism as "the study of the relationship between literature and __________ ".
A:-nature
B:-flora and fauna
C:-ecology
D:-physical environment
Correct Answer:- Option-D

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