KERALA SET ENGLISH FEB 2020 (Held on 10.01.2021)

(Paper Code: 20207A)

1. The first word in the title of a Baconian essay is usually:

A) Of B) On 

C) Upon D) About



2. The name in Utopia which means ‘talker of nonsense’:

A) Vespucci B) Hythloday 

C) Tunstall D) Giles



3. Who had ‘five husbands at the church door’ apart from other company in youth?

A) Tess Durbeyfield B) Madam Eglantine

C) Alisoun of Bath D) Dame Julian of Norwich



4. The Duchess of Malfi in the well-known play is in love with:

A) Antonio B) Bosolo C) the Cardinal D) Alfonso



5. The reference to the ‘face that launched a thousand ships’ occurs in a ----- in ---- :

A) metaphor, Ulysses B) pun, Iliad

C) simile, Paradise Lost D) rhetorical question, Dr Faustus



6. What does Friar Laurence give Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?

A) Potion B) Absolution 

C) Poison D) Antidote



7. The phrase ‘to take arms against a sea of troubles’ occurs in a/an------in -------:

A) aside, Arms and the Man B) speech, Aeneid

C) soliloquy, Hamlet D) masque, The Tempest



8. ‘Mr W.H’ is mentioned in connection with Shakespeare’s:

A) sonnets B) theatre

C) players D) plays



9. “The grave is a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.” Identify the poem and the poet:

A) The Canonization, Donne

B) The Rape of the Lock, Pope

C) To His Coy Mistress, Marvell

D) “Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds,” Shakespeare



10. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is best considered as a:

A) religious allegory B) sacred epic

C) metaphorical concept D) personal travelogue



11. A digression in “Lycidas” attacks the:

A) monarchy B) tradespeople 

C) nobility D) clergy



12. ‘Neo-classicism’ derives its inspiration from:

A) classicism B) aestheticism

C) impressionism D) romanticism



13. ‘Malapropism’ is associated with a character created by:

A) Chaucer B) Shakespeare 

C) Dickens D) Sheridan



14. The best-known diarist of the seventeeth century:

A) Richard Steele B) Arthur Rowe

C) Atticus Finch D) Samuel Pepys



15. A literary Club founded by Pope, Swift, Gay, Parnell and Arbuthnot:

A) Coffee-house Club B) Twickenham Society

C) Scriblerus Club D) The Club



16. The 17th century English philosopher who helped lay the foundations of empiricism and political liberalism:

A) Burke B) Locke 

C) Malthus D) Kane



17. A woman with literary or intellectual interests used to be referred to as a:

A) yellow bane B) black widow

C) blue stocking D) white heart



18. The 18th century writer who came to be called ‘Parson Yorick’ after the name of a character in one of his works :

A) Sterne B) Swift 

C) Richardson D) Fielding



19. The poet known by the title of the Bard of Ayrshire and as the ‘Ploughman Poet’:

A) Blake B) Burns 

C) Langland D) Cowper



20. Match these biographies/autobiographies with their authors:

Works Authors

1. Lives of the English Poets a) Samuel Johnson

2. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners b) St Augustine

3 . Confessions c) Johann W V Goethe

4. Poetry and Truth d) John Bunyan

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

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



21. The manifesto of the Romantic Movement:

A) Apology for Poetry B) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

C) Preface to the Fables D) Areopagitica



22. “Heaven lies about us in our infancy” is a line from:

A) Shelley B) Browning C) Tennyson D) Wordsworth



23. “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers” is a satirical work by:

A) Oliver Goldsmith B) William Hazlitt

C) Lord Byron D) Robert Nye



24. The author of the ‘first Gothic novel in the English language’:

A) Horace Walpole B) Matthew Gregory Lewis

C) Ann Radcliffe D) William Bexford



25. “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” is a brilliant piece of Shakespearean criticism by:

A) Arnold B) Baudelaire C) Coleridge D) De Quincey



26. An English exponent of ‘Utilitarianism’:

A) TS Eliot B) JM Keynes

C) JS Mill D) Milton Friedman



27. “Ulysses” is a dramatic monologue by :

A) Alfred Lord Tennyson B) Matthew Arnold

C) Robert Browning D) James Joyce



28. Which Pre-Raphaelite poet speaks of the subject of his poem who ‘leaned out/From the gold bar of Heaven’:

A) D.G. Rossetti B) William Morris

C) A.C. Swinburne D) Thomas Woolmer



29. ‘Art for Art’s sake’ is the cardinal doctrine of:

A) Aestheticism B) ‘Comp-art-mentalism’

C) Expressionism D) Purism



30. Match the list of authors and their stories:

Authors Stories

1. Mark Twain (a) Rip van Winkle

2. Washington Irving (b) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

3. F. Scott Fitzgerald (c) The Man Who Would be King

4. Rudyard Kipling (d) The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

A) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d 

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

C) 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a 

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



31. Who proposed a new approach to biography ‘to exclude everything that is redundant, and nothing that is significant’?:

A) Leonard Woolf B) Lesley Stephen

C) Lytton Strachey D) Quentin Bell



32. The Reform Bills of the 19th century were intended to:

A) reform the electoral system B) reform the system of ownership of property

C) reform the peerage D) reform the education system



33. “The Return of the Native” is included among:

A) Wessex novels B) Leatherstocking Tales

C) Graveyard fiction D) First Nations literature



34. Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp are contrasting characters in:

A) Moll Flanders B) Mansfield Park

C) Pilgrim’s Progress D) Vanity Fair



35. George Bernard Shaw is by birth:

A) English B) Scottish 

C) Irish D) Welsh



36. G.M. Hopkins’s term for the complex of characteristics which make an object unique:

A) inscape B) instress 

C) instrain D) sprung rhythm



37. What does Arnold call ‘the study of perfection’?:

A) Philosophy B) Pedagogy 

C) Art D) Culture



38. World War I ended with the defeat of:

A) The Axis B) The Central Powers

C) The Allies D) The Triton



39. The Poetry is in the pity’ is a phrase associated with:

A) William Wordsworth B) William Shakespeare

C) Wilfred Owen D) Karl Shapiro



40. “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” is a work by:

A) Edward Albee B) Eugene Ionesco

C) Anton Chekov D) W.B. Yeats



41. Ezra Pound’s attempt to condense a Jamesian novel resulted in the work:

A) “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”

B) “The Portrait of a Lady”

C) “Homage to Sextus Propertius”

D) “The Waste Land”



42. ‘It was the best of times. It was the worst of times….’ These are the opening words of :

A) Hard Times B) Bleak House

C) A Christmas Carol D) A Tale of Two Cities



43. The Movement Poets began by publishing their poems in the anthology:

A) New Moves B) New Lines

C) New Lives D) New Times



44. The Irish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995:

A) Samuel Beckett B) Seamus Heaney

C) J M Synge D) Maureen Duffy



45. Max Beerbohm’s ferocious attack on this British writer is well-known:

A) Bernard Shaw B) HG Wells

C) Bertrand Russell D) Rudyard Kipling



46. A novel about a day in the life of a female protagonist:

A) Clarissa B) The Penelopiad

C) Mrs Dalloway D) Shirley



47. The prominent Inner Party member named in 1984:

A) Winston Smith B) Julia

C) O’Brien D) ‘Big Brother’



48. The author of “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”:

A) Alan Sillitoe B) John Wain

C) Jean Rhys D) Hanif Kureishi



49. A character in a play by Ibsen, who has been described as the playwright’s personal spokesman:

A) Peer Gynt B) Doctor Stockmann

C) Pastor Manders D) Nils Krogstad



50. “Riders to the Sea” is a play:

A) Without Acts B) In One Act

C) In Three Acts D) In Five Acts



51. “Luther (1961)” is a work by:

A) John Osborne B) John Arden

C) Peter Hall D) Jonathan Franzen



52. The 1965 British play which featured a baby in a pram being stoned to death:

A) The Pope’s Wedding B) Early Morning

C) Saved D) The Bundle



53. “The Gap of Time” is a modern re-telling of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” by :

A) Margaret Atwood B) Jeanette Winterson

C) Ian Mc Ewan D) Howard Jacobson



54. Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize, was born in:

A) Hiroshima B) Nagasaki C) Brighton D) Canterbury



55. “The House of Seven Gables” is a work by:

A) Edgar Allan Poe B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C) JC Ransom D) Robert Lowell



56. The work that was first published in 1855 bearing neither the name of publisher or author, but with the writer’s portrait on the cover:

A) Self-Reliance B) Walden

C) Leaves of Grass D) Letters to the World



57. “Anyone lived in a pretty how town” is the title and the first line of a poem by:

A) DJ Enright B) Hilda Doolittle

C) EE Cummings D) Max Ernst



58. The title under which Melville’s best-known work was first published:

A) The Whale B) The White Whale

C) Moby Dick or The Whale D) Moby Dick or The White Whale



59. The bitterness of the Great Depression decade was reflected in the 1939 novel:

A) 1984 B) To Hell and Back

C) The Grapes of Wrath D) Gadsby



60. Beneatha Younger is a character in a work by:

A) Langston Hughes B) Lorraine Hansberry

C) Lillian Hellman D) Leslie Mormon Silko



61. Arthur Miller’s play based on the Salem witchcraft trials is:

A) After the Fall

B) A View from the Bridge

C) A Memory of Two Mondays

D) The Crucible



62. Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of integral yoga is comprehensively explored in his acclaimed prose work:

A) The Life Divine

B) Savitri

C) The Spirituality of the Future

D) Beyond Man



63. ‘I felt the hunger there/the other one, the fish slithering, turning inside…’ These lines from “Hunger” are by:

A) Knut Hamsun B) Romain Rolland

C) Kamala Das D) Jayanta Mahapatra



64. “Truth, Love and a Little Malice” is the autobiography of:

A) Nissim Ezekiel B) Gieve Patel

C) Khushwant Singh D) Dom Moraes



65. In 2002, “Interpreter of Maladies” won the-----.

A) Booker Prize B) Man Booker Prize

C) Sahitya Akademi award D) Pulitzer Prize



66. The Bengal Trilogy includes Inquilab; Sonar Bangla and:

A) The Refugee B) Rhyme and Reason

C) Red Flag D) The Rage of Revolution



67. “King Baabu” is a parodic play by:

A) Senghor B) Okigbo 

C) Achebe D) Soyinka



68. “Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening” is an autobiographical work by:

A) Thiongo B) Clark 

C) Okri D) Fugard



69. The word ‘Negritude’ was coined by:

A) Langston Hughes B) Claude McKay

C) Leopold Senghor D) Aime Cesaire



70. “Omeras” (1990) is a retelling of Homer in a modern setting by:

A) Seamus Heaney B) Margaret Atwood

C) Amitav Ghosh D) Derek Walcott



71. The utter desolation of Depression-era life in the prairie was described in “Ask for Me and My House” by:

A) Upton Sinclair B) Ross Sinclair

C) May Sinclair D) Margaret St Clair



72. “The Splintered Moon” and “A Choice of Dreams” are works by:

A) George Stromboul B) Naomi Nakane

C) Joy Kogawa D) Claire Harris



73. The poet whose first volume of poems appeared in 1946 under the title “The Moving Image”:

A) Margaret Laurence B) Margaret Atwood

C) Judith Wright D) Judith Light



74. “Tree of Man” reflects the conception of Australia of its writer:

A) Patrick White B) David Malouf

C) Sally Morgan D) David Williamson



75. Triton, a young Sri Lankan boy, is the narrator of Romesh Gunasekhara’s :

A) Reef B) The Sandglass

C) Heaven’s Edge D) Noon Tide Toll



76. “A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English” (1944) is an invaluable work by:

A) Clarke and Gable B) Jones and Gimson

C) Kenyon and Knott D) Crystal and Drake



77. The omission of certain sounds in connected speech is called:

A) ellipses B) elision

C) ellision D) iteration



78. An affix that is added within a root or stem of a word is called:

A) infix B) intrafix 

C) introfix D) interfix



79. Changes in the meaning(s) of a word over the course of time are:

A) synchronic B) syncretic 

C) semantic D) semetic



80. “An Exception to the First Sound Shift” presented what has come to be known as :

A) Grimm’s Law B) Verner’s Law 

C) Zeitschrift D) Zeitgeist



81. The first known Old English Christian poet is:

A) Abbess St Hilda B) Bede the Venerable

C) Caedmon the herdsman D) Cnut the Great



82. The first complete English language Bible was promoted by :

A) John of Gaunt B) William Caxton

C) William Tyndale D) John Wycliffe



83. The greatest individual contributor of new words to the English language is :

A) Johnson B) Donne 

C) Shakespeare D) Milton



84. Full-fledged vernacular languages such as those developed in colonial European plantation settlements as a result of contact between groups that spoke mutually unintelligible languages are known by the term-----.

A) pidgin B) creole 

C) cant D) patois



85. Words such as ‘backwoods’, ‘bullfrog’, ‘hickory’ ‘persimmon,’ etc., were first borrowed

or otherwise assimilated into------.

A) American English B) Australian English

C) South Asian English D) African English



86. ‘The Anglo-Indian Dictionary’ brought out in 1886 was called------.

A) Hockus Focus B) Hobson Jobson

C) Nimby Pamby D) Nimby Nameby



87. The theory of social learning was developed by the psychologist:

A) Holland B) Piaget 

C) Perry D) Vygotsky



88. “Technology of Teaching” (1968) is a work by:

A) Pavlov B) Russell 

C) Skinner D) Watson



89. Macaulay’s famous Minute on Indian education came out in:

A) 1835 B) 1839 

C) 1844 D) 1845



90. ‘A Communicative Grammar of English’ is an innovative text by:

A) Quirk and Halliday B) Leech and Svartvik

C) Greenbaum and Svartvik D) Quirk and Greenbaum



91. The ‘silent way’ of language teaching was introduced by:

A) Caleb Gattegro B) Georges Cuisinaire

C) Roger Nelson D) Claudi Alsina



92. Attitude is associated with character, but aptitude has more to do with:

A) Communication B) Consistency

C) Continuity D) Competency



93. “Universal Pedagogy” (1806) is a work by one of the founders of modern scientific pedagogy:

A) JG Fichte B) JF Herbart 

C) JH Pestalozzi D) JR Tschiffeli



94. A combination of face-to-face teaching and technology-enabled learning is termed-------

learning :

A) alternate B) blended 

C) smart D) online



95. The disadvantages of summative evaluation were sought to be remedied by ---------- evaluation :

A) normative B) comparative 

C) formative D) informative





96. ‘Shakespeare has no heroes, his scenes are occupied only by men,’ said:

A) Milton B) Dryden 

C) Dr Johnson D) TS Eliot



97. In advocating for ‘a language really used by men’ Wordsworth was rebelling against the neo-classical notion of:

A) flowery prose B) purple passages

C) poetic diction D) rhodomontade



98. The ‘objective correlative’ is a concept explored by TS Eliot in the essay:

A) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

B) “The Function of Criticism”

C) “The Problem of Hamlet”

D) “Hamlet and His Problems”



99. Seven Types of Ambiguity is concerned with the effects of ambiguity on:

A) English prose B) English verse

C) English drama D) English words



100. Key texts of Russian formalism were translated in the work “Theorie de la Litterature” (1965) by :

A) Tzvetan Todorov B) Victor Erlich

C) Victor Shklovsky D) Yury Tynianov



101. L’Ordine Nuovo (“The New Order”) is the newspaper founded in 1919 by:

A) Matteo Bartoli B) Palmiro Togliati

C) Benedetto Croce D) Antonio Gramsci



102. The title of the fourth volume of “Mythologiques”, which came out in 1971:

A) The Raw and the Cooked B) The Origin of Table Manners

C) The Naked Man D) From Honey to Ashes



103. Match the names of literary works and the names of literary styles/movements they are associated with:

Works Styles/Movements

1. Afternoon of a Faun a) Imagism

2. Sea Garden b) Movement Poetry

3. On the Road c) Symbolism

4. Toads d) Beat

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

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



104. “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” is a work by:

A) Horkeimer B) Adorno C) Habermas D) Marcuse



105. The ‘mythologies’ of popular cultural phenomena were explored in ‘The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies’ by:

A) Barthes B) Derrida C) Foucault D) Lacan



106. Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Le Deuxieme Sexe’ was published in two volumes in the year:

A) 1947 B) 1949 C) 1953 D) 1956



107. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993) is an important work by:

A) Betty Friedan B) Helene Cixous

C) Catherine Clement D) Judith Butler



108. The concepts of hybridity, mimicry and ambivalence are associated with the theoretical constructs of-----.

A) Edward Said B) Homi Bhabha

C) Gayatri Spivak D) Harish Trivedi



109. The dynamic of the ‘perverse’ was first explored by Jonathan Dollimore in------.

A) Radical Tragedy B) Sex, Literature and Censorship

C) Death, Desire and Loss D) Sexual Dissidence



110. ‘Poet of the Underworld,’ from the title of a collection of the author’s poems in English translation, refers to:

A) Siddalingaiah B) Sharankumar Limbale

C) Namdeo Dhasal D) Sukirtharan



111. Translation/History/Culture is a ‘Sourcebook’ edited by:

A) Andre Lefevere B) James Holmes

C) Eugene Nida D) Anton Popovic



112. ‘Cultural materialism’ is a term proposed by:

A) Eric Hosbawm B) Raymond Williams

C) Tony Bennett D) Pierre Bourdieu



113. The concept of the ‘sane society’ was put forward by:

A) Cheryl Glotfelty B) Rachel Carson

C) Erich Fromm D) Ivan Illich



114. In Bhartrhari’s view, the word or the sentence taken as a single meaningful unit is------.

A) vak B) vachan 

C) slesha D) sphota



115. The deviations that make an utterance poetic are studied in-------.

A) alamkara B) anumana 

C) riti D) vakroti



116. The “Reign of Terror” is associated with:

A) Charles I 

B) Richard III

C) The French Revolution 

D) The Spanish Civil War



117. ‘Indian Empire or no Indian Empire, we cannot do without Shakespeare’ said:

A) Lewis Carroll 

B) Winston Churchill

C) Thomas Carlyle 

D) Matthew Arnold



118. Match the list of characters and the authors who brought them to life in fiction:

Characters Authors

1. Guy Mannering a) Matthew Gregory Lewis

2. Ambrosio b) Tobias Smollett

3. Humphry Clinker c) George Eliot

4. Silas Marner d) Walter Scott

A) 1-d,2-c, 3-b, 4-a 

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

C) 1-d, 2-c, 3-a, 4-b 

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



119. Match the list of Shakespearean quotes and the plays in which they are found:

Quotes Plays

1. Conscience doth make cowards of us all. a) Othello

2. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. b) Hamlet

3. Who steals my purse steals trash… c) Twelfth Night

4. Sweet are the uses of adversity… d) As You Like It

A) 1-b, 2-c, 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-c,4-d



120. The concept of ‘screen memory’ was posited by:

A) Ernst von Brucke B) Ernst Fleischi

C) Ernest Jones D) Sigmund Freud

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STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - February - 2020
(Conducted on 10/01/2021)

ANSWER KEYS
Published on 11/01/2021

English[20207-A]

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