KERALA SET ENGLISH JUL 2018 (Held on 09.09.2018)

(Paper Code: 18707A)

1. Who among the following poets is referred as the “finder of our language”?

A) Sir. Philip Sidney B) Christopher Marlowe

C) Geoffrey Chaucer D) William Langland



2. Le Morte d’Arthur was written by:

A) Sir Thomas More B) Sir Thomas Lucy

C) Sir Thomas Cromwell D) Sir Thomas Malory



3. ‘Aphoristic’ is a term associated with the Essays of:

A) Roger Ascham B) Roger Bacon

C) Francis Bacon D) Charles Lamb



4. Ferrex and Porrex are characters in:

A) Gorboduc B) Gargantua

C) Ab Urbe Condita D) Origo Gentis Romanae



5. The ‘Comedy of Humours’ was popularized by:

A) Thomas Kyd B) Ben Jonson

C) Christopher Marlowe D) Thomas Dekker



6. The speech beginning with the well-known line “To be, or not to be—that is the question” is an example of:

A) Aside B) Monologue

C) Soliloquy D) Ode dramatique



7. King Lear is derived from the legend of the Celtic king:

A) Lwaere B) Leir

C) Lair D) Laier



8. Shakespeare’s Problem Plays is a work by:

A) E.M.W. Tillyard B) F.S. Boas

C) Neil Rhodes D) A.G. Harmon



9. Shakespeare’s Sonnets published in 1609 include a dedication to:

A) Mr T.T. B) Mr W.H.

C) The Earl of Pembroke D) The Earl of Southampton



10. “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love” is a line from

A) “Death, Be Not Proud” B) “The Canonization”

C) “To His Coy Mistress” D) “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”



11. The full title of The Pilgrim’s Progress adds the words:

A) From Earth to Heaven

B) From This World to Heaven

C) From This World to Paradise

D) From This World to That Which is to Come



12. Milton’s pastoral elegy on the death of his Cambridge friend is titled:

A) Adonais B) Lycidas C) Catullus D) Areopagitica



13. Identify the work by William Congreve:

A) Bachelor of Love B) All for Love

C) Love for Love D) The Way of Love



14. ‘Neoclassic’ writers shared the values of:

A) Radical innovation B) Traditionalism

C) Individualism D) Rebellion



15. Match the quotes with their authors:

Quotes Authors

1. I am not Hamlet, nor was meant to be. a. Dylan Thomas

2. The horror! The Horror! b. T.S. Eliot

3. A terrible beauty is born. c. Joseph Conrad

4. Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night. d. W.B.Yeats

A) 1-a, 2-c, 3-d,4-b B) 1-b,2-c,3-d,4-a

C) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b,4-d D) 1-d,2-a,3-c,4-b



16. An eyewitness account of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London is given by:

A) Daniel Deronda B) Albert Camus

C) Samuel Johnson D) Samuel Pepys



17. “All human things are subject to decay/And when fate summons, monarchs must obey” are lines from:

A) Aeneid B) Odyssey

C) Mac Flecknoe D) Douglas McArthur



18. The Battle of the Books takes place in the:

A) King James Library B) St James’ Library

C) James Royal Library D) James Regent Library



19. This person is not a character in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy:

A) Susannah B) Doctor Slop C) Trim D) Verges



20. The phrase ‘some mute inglorious Milton’ is from:

A) Edmund Burke B) Edward Gibbon

C) Thomas Carlyle D) Thomas Gray



21. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry was compiled by:

A) Francis Childe B) Charles Perrault

C) Thomas Percy D) Jakob Grimm



22. The “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” was first published in:

A) 1798 B) 1800

C) 1801 D) 1802



23. The ‘Person from Porlock’ is associated with:

A) Dante B) Charles Lamb

C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge D) Leigh Hunt



24. “Song to the Men of England” is a poem by:

A) Voltaire B) Rousseau C) Byron D) Shelley



25. “A Gothic Story” was added as a subtitle to:

A) Frankenstein B) The Castle of Otranto

C) The Monk D) The Moonstone



26. This is one of the ‘Waverley Novels’:

A) Waverley B) Guy Fawkes

C) The Antiquity D) The Dark Dwarf



27. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a work by:

A) Rousseau B) De Quincey C) Coleridge D) Pope



28. The Subjection of Women is a work by:

A) J.S. Mill B) J.S. Ross

C) Mary Wollstonecraft D) Mary Shelley



29. The Victorian Era was followed by this era:

A) Georgian B) Edwardian C) Caroline D) Spenserian



30. Culture and Anarchy is a work by:

A) T.S. Eliot B) G.H. Lewes

C) Matthew Arnold D) George Eliot



31. The periodical published by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was called:

A) The Germ B) Germinal C) The Immortals D) PRB



32. The doctrine of ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ was advocated by:

A) Walter Scott B) Walter Pater

C) Walter Raleigh D) Walter de la Mare



33. The Oxford Movement was led by (among others):

A) Ford Maddox Ford B) William Dean Howells

C) John Henry Newman D) Cardinal Richelieu



34. Eminent Victorians is a work by:

A) James Tait B) Bertrand Russell

C) John Maynard Keynes D) Lytton Strachey



35. Mr Gradgrind is a character in:

A) Hard Times B) The Mill on the Floss

C) Westward Ho! D) Tom Jones



36. Match the list of characters and works:

Characters ---- Works

1. Michael Henchard a. The Scarlet Letter

2. Gogol Ganguli b. The Catcher in the Rye

3. Holden Caulfield c. The Namesake

4. Pearl d. The Mayor of Casterbridge

A) 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a B) 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a

C) 1-d, 2-c, 3-a, 4-b D) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-d



37. George Meredith was a writer who lived during:

A) The Elizabethan Age B) The Augustan Age

C) The Victorian Era D) The Modern Era



38. The title ‘Arms and the Man” is borrowed from:

A) Homer B) Virgil C) Chaucer D) Shakespeare



39. ‘Sprung rhythm’ was an innovation from:

A) Gerard Hopkins B) Philip Sidney

C) Dylan Thomas D) R.S. Thomas



40. Rudyard Kipling was born in:

A) Birmingham B) Belfast C) Bordeaux D) Bombay



41. Match the list of Shakespearean characters and the plays in which they appear:

Characters ---- Plays

1. Bassanio a. The Tempest

2. Benedick b. Much Ado About Nothing

3. Trinculo c. Twelfth Night

4. Malvolio d. The Merchant of Venice

A) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-d B) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c

C) 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c D) 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c



42. “I am the enemy you killed, my friend. “ This is a line from:

A) “Strange Meeting” B) “Insensibility”

C) “Trench Duty” D) “Dreamers”



43. The Age of Anxiety is a work by:

A) T.S. Eliot B) W.H. Auden

C) William James D) Henry James



44. Maud Gonne married:

A) John MacBride B) Thomas MacDonagh

C) James Connolly D) Padraig Pearse



45. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is a work by:

A) Dylan Thomas B) Stephen Mallarme

C) Ezra Pound D) Rupert Brooke



46. The concept of aucitya was discussed by:

A) Vamana B) Mammata

C) Kshemendra D) Dhandi



47. Identify the one who is not a “Movement” writer:

A) Philip Larkin B) Thom Gunn

C) Ted Hughes D) Robert Conquest



48. Identify the poet who was not a ‘Poet Laureate’:

A) John Dryden B) William Wordsworth

C) T.S. Eliot D) Andrew Motion



49. ‘The Bog Poems’ refer to a series of poems by:

A) Ezra Pound B) Samuel Beckett

C) Seamus Heaney D) Dylan Thomas



50. ‘Father Brown’ is a Roman Catholic priest-detective created by:

A) Graham Greene B) G.K. Chesterton

C) Evelyn Waugh D) Horace Walpole



51. Identify the novel which is not written by Joseph Conrad:

A) Heart of Darkness B) The Nigger of Narcissus

C) Typhoon D) Lord of the Rings



52. Paul Morel is a character in:

A) Fathers and Sons B) Sons and Lovers

C) Difficult Daughters D) Strangers and Brothers



53. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can best be called:

A) a bildungsroman B) a kunstlerroman

C) a roman à clef D) a nouveauroman



54. ‘Doublespeak’ and ‘thoughtcrime’ are concepts found in the work:

A) Brave New World B) Fahrenheit 451

C) Nineteen Eighty-Four D) Homage to Catalonia



55. Identify the one who is not a character in Lord of the Flies:

A) Ralph B) Piggy

C) Simon D) Peter



56. In A Doll’s House, Nora’s husband is:

A) Torvald B) Nils

C) Krogstad D) Rank



57. The Abbey Theatre is associated with:

A) The Shakespeare Society B) Royal Shakespeare Company

C) Irish Literary Revival D) Westminster Literary Festival





58. Match the names of writers and the names of groups/movements associated with them:

Writers Groups/Movements

1. Cecil Day-Lewis a. Imagist Poets

2. Hilda Doolittle b. Symbolist Poets

3. Stephen Mallarme c. Confessional Poets

4. Robert Lowell d. Pylon Poets

A) 1-d, 2-c, 3-a,4-b B) 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b

C) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b, 4-d D) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c



59. Identify the play that is not by Harold Pinter:

A) The Birthday Party B) The Cocktail Party

C) The Caretaker D) The Dumb Waiter



60. The Golden Notebook is a work by:

A) Doris Lessing B) Iris Murdoch

C) Jeanette Winterson D) Ralph Ellison



61. Kazuo Ishiguro writes novels in:

A) Spanish B) Japanese C) English D) Korean



62. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” This is a quote from:

A) Rousseau B) Thoreau C) Emerson D) Dickinson



63. Leaves of Grass is a work by:

A) Alex Haley B) Allan Tate

C) Hart Crane D) Walt Whitman



64. The poem at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the US was read by:

A) Arthur Miller B) Henry Miller

C) Robert Frost D) Robert Penn Warren



65. ‘Uncle Tom’ is a character in a work by:

A) Mark Twain B) Harriet Beecher Stowe

C) Herman Melville D) Tennessee Williams



66. Invisible Man is a work by:

A) H.G. Wells B) J.B. Priestley C) Philip Roth D) Ralph Ellison



67. “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument/while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” These lines are by:

A) Sri Aurobindo B) Rabindranath Tagore

C) Toru Dutt D) Sarojini Naidu



68. The first poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry was:

A) Nissim Ezekiel B) Dom Moraes

C) A.K. Ramanujam D) Jayanta Mahapatra



69. Hukum Chand, Iqbal Singh and Juggut Singh are characters in a work by:

A) Raja Rao B) Mulk Raj Anand

C) R.K. Narayan D) Khushwant Singh



70. Salman Rushdie’s novel published in 2017 is:

A) The Ground Beneath Her Feet

B) The Golden House

C) Shalimar the Clown

D) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights



71. Girish Karnad wrote plays in:

A) English and Hindi B) English and Marathi

C) English and Malayalam D) English and Kannada



72. The Lion and the Jewel is a work by:

A) Chinua Achebe B) Christopher Okikbo

C) Wole Soyinka D) Leopold Senghor



73. Azaro, the spirit child, is a character created by:

A) Ben Okri B) Ngugi Wa Thiongo

C) John Pepper Clark D) Athol Fugard



74. The Wretched of the Earth is an influential work by:

A) Paulo Freire B) Ivan Illich

C) Frantz Fanon D) Franz Kafka



75. “A Far Cry from Africa” is a work by:

A) Edward Brathwaite B) George Lamming

C) Derek Walcott D) V.S. Naipaul



76. The Rez Sisters by Highway is:

A) a play B) a novel

C) a collection of short stories D) a collection of poems



77. The English Patient and Coming through Slaughter are works by:

A) Rohinton Mistry B) Cyrus Mistry

C) Michael Fassbender D) Michael Ondaatje



78. The Moving Image and Birds are collections of poetry by:

A) Dorothy Livesay B) Dorothy Parker

C) Judith Miller D) Judith Wright



79. Patrick White, the Nobel laureate, was:

A) American B) Australian C) Canadian D) Irish



80. Lajja is a work by:

A) Yasmine Gooneratne B) Taslima Nasrin

C) Edwin Thumboo D) Romesh Gunesekera



81. I.P.A. stands for:

A) International Phonetic Association

B) International Phonetic Alphabet

C) International Phonological Association

D) International Phonemic Alphabet



82. The term which refers to the influence of one sound segment upon the articulation of

another, so that the two sounds become more alike, or even identical is:

A) Anticipation B) Assimilation

C) Amelioration D) Aspiration



83. A word element that can be attached either to the beginning, the middle, the root, or the base of a word to form a new word is called:

A) Affix B) Prefix C) Infix D) Suffix



84. The branch of linguistcs that is concerned with meaning is known as:

A) Semiotics B) Semiology C) Semantics D) Symbology



85. The original language from which the Indo-European family is believed to have descended is known as:

A) Ur-Indo-European B) Proto-Indo-European

C) Pre-Indo-European D) Preter-Indo-European



86. Old English is also known as:

A) Anglic B) Aenglisc

C) Angle-Saxon D) Anglo-Saxon



87. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in:

A) Old English B) Middle English

C) Modern English D) New English



88. ‘Lovelorn’ and ‘pandemonium’ are words believed to have been coined by:

A) John Milton B) John Keats

C) William Wordsworth D) William Shakespeare



89. Languages formed by attempts at communication by two mutually unintelligible speech

communities can be called:

A) Pidgin B) Register

C) Cant D) Dialect



90. The notion of ‘World Englishes’ was propounded by:

A) George Bernard Shaw B) Braj B. Kachru

C) Noam Chomsky D) Dwight D. Eisenhower



91. The psychology of learning which is focused on intelligence and inner mental activities is:

A) Cognitivism B) Behaviourism

C) Constructivism D) Human Constructivism



92. In the context of language learning, RFT refers to:

A) Relational Frame Theory B) Rapid Fire Testing

C) Right Frontal Testing D) Rigid Frame Theory



93. The official languages of the country are listed in this ‘Schedule’ to the Constitution of India:

A) First B) Fourth C) Sixth D) Eighth



94. ESL refers to:

A) English as a State Language B) English as a Second Language

C) English for Special Learners D) English for Specific Learners



95. The method of language teaching where students learn in a close-knit community with the teacher-counseller is:

A) CLL B) ALL C) ACL D) CSL



96. Match the sub-titles/alternate titles with the titles of the works:

Titles ---- Sub-titles

1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles a. Mistakes of a Night

2. She Stoops to Conquer b. Virtue Rewarded

3. Pamela c. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

4. The Importance of Being Earnest d. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

A. 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d B) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c

C) 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c D) 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a



97. In language teaching at the elementary and secondary levels, the best lesson plans are:

A) Superficial B) Superfluous

C) Deconstructive D) Dynamic



98. CALL refers to:

A) Computer Assisted Language Learning

B) Cyber Assisted Language Learning

C) Close Assisted Language Learning

D) Classroom Agnostic Language Learning



99. A test designed to assess the current state of a student’s ability or progress is:

A) Diagnostic B) Terminal C) Formative D) Summative



100. ‘Mother-tongue interference’ refers to the influence of:

A) L1 on L2 B) L2 on L1

C) L1 and L2 on each other D) Parents on the pupil



101. The purgation of pity and terror through art is known as:

A) Hamartia B) Catharsis C) Mimesis D) Anagnorisis



102. The distinction between ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’ is discussed in:

A) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

B) Biographia Literaria

C) De Profundis

D) Preface to the Fables



103. The theory of the impersonality of the poet was put forward by:

A) Samuel T. Coleridge B) Samuel Johnson

C) T.S. Eliot D) W.S. Merwin



104. Seven Types of Ambiguity is a work by:

A) Geoffrey Leech B) Jan Svartvik

C) William Wallace D) William Empson



105. Identify the writer who was not one of the Russian Formalists:

A) Viktor Skhlovsky B) Vladimir Propp

C) Boris Pasternak D) Roman Jacobson



106. Antonio Gramsci’s ideas on ---------- can be found in the work---------.

A) Marxist theory, Prison Notebooks

B) Insanity, Madness and Civilization

C) Morality, Genealogy of Morals

D) Literary theory, “The Death of the Author”



107. The Raw and the Cooked is a work by:

A) Susan Sontag B) James Frazer

C) Franz Boas D) Claude Levi-Strauss



108. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious was a work by ---------, published in 1905.

A) Sigmund Freud B) Alfred Adler

C) Carl Jung D) Rudolf Reitler



109. Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act completes the title:

A) Reading Capital B) The Political Unconscious

C) Literature of the Graveyard D) Art and the Human Adventure

110. Identify the work that is not by Jacques Derrida:

A) Of Grammatology B) Of Hospitality

C) Being and Nothingness D) The Beast and the Sovereign



111. In the work--------, Elaine Showalter traces the history of women’s literature in Europe in three phases, which are ------,------, and --------.

A) Feminist Manifesto, female, feminist, femme fatale

B) Gynocritique, feminine, feminist, femme de guerre

C) Feminist Poetics, feminine, feminist, female

D) Towards a Feminist Poetics, feminine, feminist, female



112. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex are works by:

A) Jean Paul Sartre B) Simone de Beauvoir

C) Judith Butler D) Helene Cixous



113. Eurocentric prejudices against Asian and Arab-Islamic people and culture are examined by ------, in ------.

A) Edward Said, Orientalism

B) Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

C) Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth

D) Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks



114. “The Empire Writes Back with a Vengeance” is a piece by:

A) Helen Tiffin B) Bill Ashcroft

C) Salman Rushdie D) Arundhati Roy



115. Political Shakespeare, edited by Dollimore and Sinfield, is a collection of essays in:

A) Dialectical Materialism B) Cultural Materialism

C) Philosophical Materialism D) Behavioural Psychology



116. Akkarmashi is the autobiography of:

A) Baburao Bagul B) Shantabai Kale

C) Sharankumar Limbale D) Namdev Dhasal



117. ‘Dynamic equivalence’ and ‘formal equivalence’ are terms relation to concepts on:

A) Economics B) Jurisprudence

C) Religion D) Translation



118. “Culture is Ordinary” is a piece by:

A) Terry Eagleton B) Terry Pratchett

C) Raymond Williams D) Langston Hughes



119. Erich Fromm presents a re-interpretation of the story of:

A) Adam and Eve B) The Judgement of Paris

C) The Hare and the Tortoise D) Noah’s Ark



120. The vakroti siddhantha was postulated by:

A) Bharata B) Kuntaka

C) Anandavardana D) Abhinavagupta

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STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - July - 2018
(Conducted on 09/09/2018)

ANSWER KEYS
Published on 11/09/2018

English[18707-A]

Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key
1	C	21	C	41	C	61	C	81	B	101	B
2	D	22	C	42	A	62	C	82	B	102	B
3	C	23	C	43	B	63	D	83	A	103	C
4	A	24	D	44	A	64	C	84	C	104	D
5	B	25	B	45	C	65	B	85	B	105	C
6	C	26	A	46	C	66	D	86	D	106	A
7	B	27	B	47	C	67	B	87	B	107	D
8	A	28	A	48	C	68	D	88	A	108	A
9	B	29	B	49	C	69	D	89	A	109	B
10	B	30	C	50	B	70	B	90	B	110	C
11	D	31	A	51	D	71	D	91	A	111	D
12	B	32	B	52	B	72	C	92	A	112	C
13	C	33	C	53	B	73	A	93	D	113	A
14	B	34	D	54	C	74	C	94	B	114	C
15	B	35	A	55	D	75	C	95	A	115	B
16	D	36	A	56	A	76	A	96	B	116	C
17	C	37	C	57	C	77	D	97	D	117	D
18	B	38	B	58	D	78	D	98	A	118	C
19	D	39	A	59	B	79	B	99	A	119	A
20	D	40	D	60	A	80	B	100	A	120	B