Kerala SET English 2010

Kerala SET English 2010

(Paper Code: 10096)

1. Identify the season of the year of the Pilgrimage referred in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

A) Summer

B) Winter

C) Spring

D) Autumn



2. The company of Pilgrims in Chaucer’s Prologue consisted of -------------- Pilgrims.

A) 28

B) 29

C) 30

D) 35



3. Cite the name of the Martyr to whose shrine the pilgrimage is undertaken

A) St. Moses

B) St. Thomas Becket

C) St. Joseph

D) St. Francis



4. Identify the year of the Fall of Constantinople

A) 1450

B) 1453

C) 1462

D) 1468



5. Who published the verses of Wyatt and Surrey?

A) Lydgate

B) Thomas Sackville

C) Tottel

D) Thomas More



6. “A sound magician is a mighty God” This line appears in the drama

A) Edward II

B) The Jew of Malta

C) Tamburlaine, the Great

D) Doctor Faustus



7. Which is the first English tragedy?

A) The Spanish Tragedy

B) Cato

C) Gorbodoc

D) The Changeling



8. Identify the work not authored by Bacon.

A) Novam Organum

B) Apopthegms

C) The New Atlantis

D) Toxophilus



9. ‘Goe and catch a falling star’ – Identify the poet of this sonnett.

A) Philip Sidney

B) John Donne

C) Surrey

D) Wyatt



10. Which age is commonly referred as ‘a nest of singing birds?’

A) Jacobean Age

B) Elizabethan Age

C) Augustan Age

D) Neo-classical age



11. A Shakespearean sonnet is characterized by….

A) Three quatrains and a couplet

B) A narrative with no divisions

C) An octave and a sestet

D) A Long narrative



12. Who wrote ‘An Apology for Poetry’?

A) John Dryden

B) Ben Jonson

C) Longinus

D) None of the above



13. ‘Conceits’ are commonly used by

A) Metaphysical poets

B) Pre-Raphelites

C) Modern poets

D) None of the above



14. The first anthology of Metaphysical poetry was compiled &edited by

A) Johnson

B) Grierson

C) Croce

D) Nash



15. Who wrote these lines: “But at my back I hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near -------------”

A) C.S. Lewis

B) John Donne

C) Andrew Marvell

D) Henry Waughan



16. “Here is God’s plenty; but he lacks high seriousness” – In this line ‘he’ refers to

A) Homer

B) Chaucer

C) Dante

D) Aristophanes



17. ‘Euphuses, or The Anatomy of Wit’ was written by

A) Sidney

B) Bacon

C) Spenser

D) Lyly



18. ‘The Arcadia’ was written by

A) Bacon

B) Sidney

C) Lyly

D) Bayard



19. Identify the play which is not written by Ben Jonson

A) The Alchemist

B) Volpone

C) Pericles, the Prince of Tyre

D) Bartholomew Fair



20. ‘Of Truth’ is an essay written by ---------------

A) Bacon

B) Thomas More

C) Caxton

D) Hobbes



21. The noted translator of Shakespeare’s plays into German is

A) Goethe

B) Pushkin

C) Schlegel

D) Grass



22. “One of the triple pillars of the Roman world transformed into a Strumpet’s fool”. Identify the play.

A) Antony and Cleopatra

B) Julius Caesar

C) Henry V

D) Henry IV.Part I



23. “To be or not to be; that’s the question”. Identify the lines in the Play of

Shakespeare.

A) Othello

B) King Lear

C) Macbeth

D) None of the above



24. In which play of Shakespeare, Bottom and the rude mechanicals appear.

A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

B) As You Like It

C) Tempest

D) None of the above.



25. Who is called the ‘turncoat’ in the play ‘Antony and Cleopatra’?

A) Octavius Caesar

B) Lepidus

C) Enobarbus

D) None of the above



26. Which play of Shakespeare is generally called ‘the tragedy of the handkerchief’?

A) Othello

B) Macbeth

C) King Lear

D) Hamlet



27. The Forest of Arden is the locale of the following play.

A) Twelfth Night

B) The Merchant of Venice

C) Measure for Measure

D) None of the above



28. “There is beggary in the love that can be reckoned”. Identify the lines in Shakespeare’s play.

A) Love’s Labour’s Lost

B) As you Like It

C) Twelfth Night

D) Antony and Cleopatra



29. “As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods- they kill us for their sport”. Which play of Shakespeare contains these lines?

A) King Lear

B) Julius Caesar

C) Cymbeline

D) None of the above.



30. ‘Falstaff ’ is a character in

A) Henry IV

B) King Lear

C) Hamlet

D) Julius Caesar



31. The fair young man referred in Shakespeare’s Sonnet is

A) Earl of Sussex

B) Earl of Burgundy

C) Earl of Surrey

D) Earl of Southampton



32. Identify one of the last plays of Shakespeare

A) Measure for Measure

B) Cymbeline

C) Timon of Athens

D) Troius and Cressida



33. According to Aristotle the purpose of a tragedy is for

A) Purgation

B) Exhibition of horror

C) Stage violence

D) Entertaining



34. ‘Hamartia’ means

A) Pity and fear

B) Tragic flaw

C) Purity

D) Arouse emotions



35. Which edition of Shakespeare is taken as the most scholarly edition?

A) The Arden edition

B) The Variorum edition

C) The Clarendon edition

D) The Folger edition



36. “Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds -----”

Identify the author of these lines:

A) John Keats

B) Byron

C) Shakespeare

D) Coleridge



37. Seneca plays were reworkings chiefly of

A) Euripides

B) Aeschylus

C) Sophocles

D) All the above



38. ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ – In which play of Shakespeare these lines occur.

A) Cymbeline

B) Hamlet

C) King Lear

D) As You Like It



39. “Others abide our question. Thou art free We ask and ask – Thou smilest and art still.”

Identify the writer who praised Shakespeare.

A) Johnson

B) Coleridge

C) Wordsworth

D) Matthew Arnold



40. A.C.Bradley is best remembered for his work on

A) Milton

B) Shakespeare

C) Dr.Johnson

D) Blake



41. The Theatres in England reopened after Restoration in the year

A) 1660

B) 1665

C) 1670

D) 1667



42. ‘Areopagitica’, by Milton is a plea

A) Denouncing opponents of the Commonwealth

B) Against the Catholic licentiousness’

C) For the liberty of the press

D) All the above



43. “Of Man’s First Disobedience and Fruit of the Forbidden Tree whose mortal taste”

These lines are taken from Milton’s Paradise Lost.

A) Book IV

B) Book I

C) Book IX

D) Book XII



44. Locate the Chronicler of the 17th century in ‘Diary’.

A) Samuel Pepys

B) Roger Reynolds

C) Jeremy Colliers

D) None of the above



45. When was the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads published?

A) 1794

B) 1798

C) 1784

D) 1789



46. Identify the poet who is not a pre-Romantic.

A) William Blake

B) Oliver Goldsmith

C) Robert Southey

D) Robert Burns



47. ‘I fall upon the thorns of life; I bleed ‘– Identify the poem

A) Ode to Skylark

B) Ode to the West Wind

C) Ode to a Nightingale

D) Ode on Autumn



48. Who wrote ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’?

A) S.T.Coleridge

B) Thomas De Quincey

C) Edmund Burke

D) John Ruskin



49. “The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock were then to me --------- An appetite”. Identify the author of these lines

A) S.T. Coleridge

B) William Wordsworth

C) Robert Southey

D) John Keats



50. Which poet is associated with the words “a willing suspension of disbelief”.

A) S.T. Coleridge

B) John Keats

C) Lord Byron

D) Cowper



51. ‘The Deserted Village’ is a poem by

A) Thomas Gray

B) William Collins

C) Oliver Goldsmith

D) George Philips



52. Whose ‘lock of hair’ is the subject of Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’?

A) Beatrice

B) Belinda

C) Benita

D) Brawne



53. “Grow old along with me; The best is yet to be --- ” Identify the poet of these lines.

A) Alfred Tennyson

B) Robert Browning

C) Matthew Arnold

D) Edward Fitzgerald



54. Shakespeare has no heroes; but only heroines – These are the words of -------------

A) Pepys

B) Ruskin

C) Carlyle

D) Defoe



55. ‘Pamela’ is written by

A) Sterne

B) Fielding

C) Richardson

D) Scott



56. ‘Touchstone method’ is a critical tool enunciated by

A) C.S. Lewis

B) F.R. Leavis

C) T.S. Eliot

D) Matthew Arnold



57. ‘Negative capability’ is a term associated with

A) John Ruskin

B) John Keats

C) Lord Byron

D) Samuel Pepys



58. The locale of many of Thomas Hardy’s novel

A) Wessex B) Sussex

C) Essex D) Manawaka



59. Charles Dicken’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ has the backdrop of the

A) Russian Revolution

B) French Revolution

C) American Revolution

D) None of the above.



60. ‘Sprung rhythm’ is associated with the poet.

A) John Dryden

B) Lord Tennyson

C) G.M.Hopkins

D) Robert Browning



61. England and America are the countries divided by a common language. Who said these words?

A) Shaw

B) Dr.Johnson

C) Russel

D) Bond



62. From which Upanishad Eliot quotes in ‘The Wasteland’.

A) Isa Upanishad

B) Brihadharanyaka Upanishad

C) Katha Upanishad

D) Mandukya Upanishad



63. Bernard Shaw’s plays mainly dealt with which of the following? 1. Social issues 2 .Political issues 3.Spelling reforms

A) 1&2 only

B) 2&3 only

C) 1 and 3 only

D) 1, 2 and 3



64. ‘The Wasteland’ is dedicated to ‘the better craftsman’. Identify the craftsman.

A) Ted Hughes

B) Ezra Pound

C) Auden

D) Stephen Spender



65. The period of the World War II is

A) 1910-1916

B) 1939-1945

C) 1920-1926

D) 1914-1920



66. Identify the writer of ‘Animal Farm’

A) Ralph Ellison

B) George Meredith

C) George Orwell

D) None of the above



67. Indicate the order of Four Quartets.

A) Burnt Norton, Dry Salvages, East Coker, Little Gidding

B) Little Gidding, Dry Salvages, East Coker, Burnt Norton

C) East Coker, Burnt Norton, Little Gidding, Dry Salvages

D) Burnt Norton, East Coker, Dry Salvages, Little Gidding,



68. Identify the playwright who does not belong to the Theatre of the Absurd

A) Synge

B) Pinter

C) Mamet

D) Becket



69. Who wrote the essay ‘Why I am not a Christian?’

A) John O’Casey

B) Bertrand Russell

C) E.M Foster

D) George Orwell



70. Identify a writer who is not grouped under Transcendentalists.

A) Emerson

B) Thoreau

C) Whitman

D) Hemingway



71. “Because I could not stop for Death; He kindly stopped for me –”

Identify the poet of these lines.

A) Sylvia Plath

B) Emily Dickinson

C) Toni Morrison

D) Margaret Atwood



72. Nora appears in the play

A) Gora

B) A Doll’s House

C) The Lion and the Jewel

D) Riders to the Sea



73. ‘Beloved’ and ‘Sula’ are the novels of

A) Ellison

B) Alice walker

C) Melville

D) Toni Morrison



74. Tagore’s ‘Chandalika’ is a

A) Novel

B) Long poem

C) Drama

D) Non-fiction



75. Who wrote the ‘Walden’?

A) Thoreau

B) Emerson

C) Mark Twain

D) Melville



76. The term ‘objective correlative’ was first used by

A) Philip Larkin

B) William Golding

C) T.S Eliot

D) Kingsley Amis



77. Identify the novel written by J.M.Coetzee

A) Lajja

B) Disgrace

C) Shaman

D) Shame



78. “Good fences make good neighbours”. Identify the poet of these lines.

A) Seamus Heaney

B) Robert Frost

C) W.H. Auden

D) Stephen Spender



79. Which novel of Salman Rushdie was banned in India?

A) The Moor’s Last Sigh

B) Grimus

C) Imaginary Homelands

D) None of the above.



80. The Nobel Prize winner for Literature (2009) is

A) Gunter Grass

B) Herta Mueller

C) V.S.Naipaul

D) Doris Lessing



81. Philology is the study of

A) Phonemes

B) Languages

C) Phones

D) Photons



82. Grimms law is concerned with changes in

A) Consonants

B) Vowels

C) Diphthongs

D) Semi vowels



83. English differs from other European languages, mainly, by adopting

A) Neutral gender

B) Natural gender

C) Grammatical gender

D) None of the above



84. Choose the wrongly spelt word(s)

1. Drunkenness 2. Mischievous 3. Seperate 4. Questionnaire

A) 3 only

B) 1 & 2 only

C) 2 & 4 only

D) 4 only



85. The Norman Conquest is attributed to the year

A) 1266

B) 1166

C) 1066

D) 1236



86. Semantics is the study of

A) Change in words

B) Change in the meaning of words

C) Change in the order of words

D) Change in immediate constituents



87. Locate the velar sounds.

A) /p/b/

B) /k/g/

C) /s/z/

D) /f/v/



88. T.G.Grammar was enunciated by

A) Hockett

B) Chomsky

C) Nida

D) Sweet



89. Did he(1)/ reach(2)/ by bus(3)/ or by walk?(4)

In which portion is the sentence wrong?

A) 1

B) 2

C) 3

D) 4



90. Identify the meaning of the idiom ‘Tooth and nail’.

A) With full force

B) Difficult work

C) To go into details

D) Occasionally



91. Identify the meaning of the expression “Lion’s share’.

A) Prey

B) Small portion

C) Major portion

D) Difficult task



92. International destruction of racial groups is known as

A) Genocide

B) Patricide

C) Regicide

D) Homicide



93. Choose the word referring to ‘confinement to one place to avoid spread of infection’.

A) Isolation

B) Quarantine

C) Seclusion

D) Reclamation



94. What is meant by morpheme?

A) Smallest meaningful unit

B) Smallest nominal unit

C) Smallest notional unit

D) Smallest prenominal unit



95. Identify the glottal sound.

A) /f/

B) /v/

C) /n/

D) /h/



96. Locate the meaning for the word ‘serendipity’

A) Finding unpleasant things by chance

B) Finding pleasant things by chance

C) Finding offensive things by chance

D) Finding non offensive things by chance



97. ‘Lycidas’ could be listed under the genre.

A) Novelette

B) Epic

C) Ode

D) Elegy



98. The idiom ‘To have your feet on the ground’ means

A) To remain inflexible

B) To stick to the ground

C) To be sensible

D) To be firm



99. In the word ‘manufacture’, the stress falls on the

A) First syllable

B) Second syllable

C) Third syllable

D) Fourth syllable



100. How many syllables are there in the word ‘Queue’?

A) 2

B) 1

C) 3

D) 4



101. The concept of ‘Pity and fear’ was advanced by

A) Aristotle

B) Plato

C) Ariosto

D) Horace



102. ‘The Seven types of Ambiguity’ was written by

A) Abrams

B) Empson

C) Frye

D) Longinus



103. “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotions, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality” – who said this?

A) W.B.Yeats

B) Robert Frost

C) T.S. Eliot

D) Edgar Allan Poe



104. ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a poem by

A) Ezra Pound

B) Eliot

C) Walter Pater

D) Coleridge



105. A critic must avoid the historical estimate and personal estimate. Identify the Critic who opined this.

A) Dryden

B) Dr. Johnson

C) Matthew Arnold

D) C.S. Lewis



106. The essay ‘The Four Kinds of Meaning’ was written by

A) T.S.Eliot

B) I.A. Richards

C) Wimsatt and Books

D) M.H. Abrams



107. Who wrote the book ‘The Second Sex’?

A) Julia-Kriestva

B) Kate Millet

C) Simone de Beauvoir

D) Betty Friedman



108. ‘Of Grammatology’ is written by

A) Derrida

B) Focault

C) Gramsci

D) Culler



109. Who wrote the book ‘Road to Xanadu?’

A) Coleridge

B) Basil Wiley

C) John Livingston Lowes

D) Herbet Read



110. Who wrote ‘Well Wrought Urn’?

A) Cleanth Brooks

B) William Empson

C) Allen Tate

D) J.C. Ransom



111. ‘Scrutiny’ is a quarterly brought out by -------------------

A) F.R.Leavis

B) Q.D.Lewis

C) Lionel Trilling

D) C.S.Lewis



112. Etymology is study of

A) Vowels

B) Diphthongs

C) Semi-vowels

D) None of the above



113. Which of the four is a nasal sound?

A) /m/

B) / p /

C) / d /

D) /f/



114. Because by migration(A)/ to the cities the population of(B) / many villages in(C)/

Kerala declined (D)

In which portion is the sentence wrong?

A) A

B) B

C) C

D) D



115. --------------- the circumference of a circle, the longer its radius

A) Larger than

B) The larger

C) Larger

D) The largest



116. Audio visual method is used in teaching for

A) Attracting the students

B) Effective teaching

C) Involving all the students

D) Exhibiting modern gadgets



117. A polyglot is one who knows

A) Many languages

B) Many nations

C) Many axioms

D) Many graphics



118. Identify the writer of ‘The Wretched of the Earth’.

A) Frantz Fanon

B) Homi Bhaba

C) Jacques Lacan

D) Michael Focault



119. In English there are ------------ distinctive consonants (RP)

A) 21

B) 22

C) 23

D) 24



120. In the sentence’ Park your car inside’, the word ‘park’ is a

A) Noun

B) Verb

C) Adjective

D) Subject complement