KERALA SET ENGLISH JAN 2023 (HELD ON 22.01.2023)

(Paper Code: 23107A)

1. The subtitle of Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot”:

A) A comedy in Two Acts B) A Tragicomedy in two Acts

C) A Tragedy in Two Acts D) A satire in Two Acts



2. Identify the correct statement/s regarding Epic Theatre:

1. Epic theatre is a response to Richard Wagner’s idea of ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ which intends each piece of art to be composed of other forms.

2. ‘Verfremdungseffekt’ made popular by Bertolt Brecht is one of the characteristics of epic theatre

3. Epic theatre always has a linear narrative which means that its events happen in chronological order

A) 1 only B) 1 and 2 only

C) 2 and 3 only D) 1, 2 and 3



3. Abbey Theatre is also known as-----.

A) Globe Theatre B) Lady Gregory’s theatre

C) Theatre of the Absurd D) National Theatre of Ireland



4. In the poem, “Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn”, Emily Dickinson uses shadow as a------ to define presentiment.

A) Simile B) Metaphor C) Hyperbole D) Allegory



5. Identify the correct statement/s regarding teaching of formal grammar:

1. Formal Grammar can be taught by inductive and deductive methods.

2. Inductive method gives examples first and then frames rules with the pupils’ help.

3. Deductive method tells the rules to the pupils and provides examples illustrating the rules.

A) 2 only B) 2 and 3 only C) 1 and 3 only D) 1, 2 and 3



6. The ability to locate the ‘topic sentence’ of a paragraph in specified time is essential in ---- reading.

A) Silent B) Intensive C) Extensive D) Deep



7. Alternating between two or more languages or language varieties in the context of a single conversation is called:

A) Code -Switching B) Code -Meshing

C) Hybridisation D) Bilingualism



8. In Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”, the line“From your memories, sad brother” refers to:

A) The boy’s friend B) The bird

C) The boy’s lost brother D) The boy



9. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry is a collection of ballads collected and published by:

A) Malory B) Joseph Ritson

C) Philip Sydney D) Thomas Percy



10. John Heywood’s The Play called the Foure PP is:

A) A morality Play B) A miracle Play

C) An Interlude D) A tragedy



11. Viola and her brother Sebastian in Twelfth Night are separated in a shipwreck on the coast of----.

A) Illyria B) Elsinore C) Messina D) Venice



12. The first folio of Shakespeare’s plays was compiled by:

A) Francis Collins and John Robinson

B) John Heminges and Henry Condell

C) William Herbert and Philip Herbert

D) John Hall and Thomas Russell



13. Which of the following sequence of publication is in correct chronological order?

A) George Meredith’s The Egoist, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Richardson’s Pamela, Lawrence Durrell’s Balthazar

B) Richardson’s Pamela, Lawrence Durrell’s Balthazar, George Meredith’s The Egoist, James Joyce’s Ulysses,

C) Lawrence Durrell’s Balthazar, George Meredith’s The Egoist, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Richardson’s Pamela

D) Richardson’s Pamela, George Meredith’s The Egoist, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Lawrence Durrell’s Balthazar



14. A novel in which the narrative is carried forward by letters written by one or more of the characters is called----- novel.

A) Picaresque B) Epistolary

C) Experimental D) Sentimental



15. The rhyme scheme in which the first and third lines of a tercet rhyme together and the middle one rhymes with the first and third of the succeeding tercet is called:

A) Terza Rima B) Ottava Rima C) Limerick D) Sestain



16. Syntactic Structures is a significant work in linguistics authored by:

A) Roman Jakobson B) Ferdinand De Saussure

C) Noam Chomsky D) Edward Sapir



17. Which among the following is a type of audio-lingual technique used in language teaching?

A) Drilling B) Total Physical Response

C) Guided composition D) Silent Way



18. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. Raja Rao 1. Kanthapura

b. Mulk Raj Anand 2. Waiting for the Mahatma

c. R K Narayan 3. Journey to Ithaca

d. Anita Desai 4. Seven Summers

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

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



19. Which among the following volumes of poetry is not written by Sarojini Naidu?

A) The Golden Threshold

B) Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

C) The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death and Destiny

D) The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring



20. The Nobel prize for literature in 1986 was received by:

A) J M Coetzee B) Nadine Gordimer

C) Naguib Mahfouz D) Wole Soyinka



21. Dr. B R Ambedkar argued that “Caste prevents Hindus from forming a real society or nation” in his work:

A) Philosophy of Hinduism B) Castes in India

C) Annihilation of Caste D) Who were the Shudras?



22. Akkarmashi is the autobiographical work of the Dalit writer:

A) Sharankumar Limbale B) Om Prakash Valmiki

C) Namdeo Dhasal D) Vasant Moon



23. The main objective of Remedial Teaching Programme is to:

A) Help students do homework

B) Provide learning support to pupils who are not as good as their peers in performance

C) Identify the weakest performing student in class

D) Help students with classes of days they are absent



24. “I think we are in rat’s alley/ Where the dead men lost their bones” are lines taken from the poem:

A) Strange Meeting B) Punishment

C) Sailing to Byzantium D) The Waste Land



25. Wilfred Owen has taken the Latin phrase Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori from the Roman poet:

A) Horace B) Juvenal C) Ovid D) Petronius



26. Which of the following statements is/are true regarding Chaucer’s The Prologue to Canterbury Tales:

1. The pilgrims meet at Tabard Inn on their way to the shrine of Thomas aBecket at Canterbury

2. The Wife of Bath, the Prioress and the second Nun are the only women pilgrims in the journey

3. The knight agrees to tell the first story in the Canterbury Tales.

A) 1 only B) 3 only C) 1 and 2 only D) 1, 2 and 3



27. Which of the following will help learners take greater responsibility for their own learning?

A) Formative Assessment B) Summative Assessment

C) Controlled writing Task D) Supervised Assessment



28. Brunette Coleman was the Pseudonym used by:

A) Kingsley Amis B) Harold Pinter

C) Philip Larkin D) Andrew Motion



29. The poem “Punishment” by Seamus Heaney appears in the collection:

A) Wintering Out B) Human Chain

C) Field Work D) North



30. Who among the following was poet laureate in England from 1999 to 2009?

A) Ted Hughes B) John Masefield

C) Andrew Motion D) Robert Bridges



31. Which among the following is not a work of Bertrand Russell?

A) The Philosophy of Leibnitz

B) Yet Again

C) Principles of Social Reconstruction

D) Marriage and Morals



32. The Nellie, a cruising yawl, moored on the Thames River in London is from the novel:

A) Lord Jim B) Lord of the Flies

C) Heart of Darkness D) An Outcast of the Islands



33. Which among the following works of D. H Lawrence is arranged in the correct sequential order of its publication?

A) Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Boy in the Bush, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

B) Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Boy in the Bush

C) The Boy in the Bush, Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Women in Love

D) Women in Love, The Boy in the Bush, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers



34. The Russian writer Virginia Woolf praises in “Modern Fiction” is-----.

A) Tolstoy B) Dostoevsky C) Gogol D) Chekhov



35. The Berkshire boar, Napoleon, in Animal Farm is an allegorical character of ----.

A) Karl Marx B) Joseph Stalin

C) Leon Trotsky D) Tsar Nicholas II



36. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. William Golding 1. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

b. Kingsley Amis 2. The Inheritors

c. John Wain 3. Lucky Jim

d. Alan Sillitoe 4. Hurry Down

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

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



37. Select the correct chronological sequence of poems published in Indian literature:

A) Palanquin –Bearers ; My Grandmother’s House; Gitanjali ; Background[1]Casually

B) Gitanjali ; Palanquin –Bearers ; Background-Casually ; My Grandmother’s House

C) Palanquin –Bearers ; Gitanjali ; Background-Casually ; My Grandmother’s House

D) Palanquin –Bearers ; Gitanjali ; My Grandmother’s House ; Background[1]Casually



38. Which of the following statement/s regarding Grimm’s Law is/are not true?

1. Indo-European voiced plosives [bh, dh, gh] became unaspirated voiced plosives [b, d, g] in primitive Germanic.

2. Indo European voiceless plosive consonants [p,t,k] became voiced plosives [b, d, g].

3. Indo European voiced plosives [b,d,g] became voiceless plosives [p,t, k]

A) 1 and 3 only B) 2 and 3 only C) 2 only D) 3 only



39. Which of the following is not a portmanteau word:

A) Motel B) Pram C) Smog D) Edusat



40. Assertion: /h/ in he is a glottal sound in English.

Reason: /h/ is produced by the active articulation of the two vocal cords

A) Assertion and Reason are correct

B) Assertion is right, but reason is not the correct explanation

C) Assertion and reason are wrong

D) Assertion is wrong, but the statement in reason is correct



41. The tonic stress in the word politician falls on:

A) ‘politician B) po’litician

C) poli’tician D) politi’cian



42. Identify the correct statements regarding the words Eat and Eats below:

1. Eat is a single syllable word

2. Eat is a single morpheme word

3. Eats is a single syllable word

4. Eats is a single morpheme word

A) 1, 2 and 3 only B) 1, 3 and 4 only

C) 1, 2 and 4 only D) 2, 3 and 4 only



43. Which among the following phrases is not a coinage of Milton?

A) Gorgeous East B) Avenger of Blood

C) To prove a bitter morsel D) Darkness visible



44. Match the Scandinavian suffixes in List I with its corresponding meaning in List II

List I List II

a. -by 1. Plot of land

b. -thwaite 2. A town

c. -toft 3. A village

d. -thorpe 4. Meadow

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

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



45. The Preface to Astrophel and Stella was contributed by:

A) Philip Gosson B) Sir Walter Raleigh

C) Thomas Nashe D) Edmund Spenser



46. Henry Howard introduced blank verse into English in the translation of -----.

A) Tottel’s Miscellany B) Virgil’s Aeneid

C) Psalms of David D) Charting my Life



47. The “two swans of goodly hue” appear in the poem:

A) Epithalamion B) The Wild Swans at Coole

C) Prothalamion D) The Swan



48. ----- is that part of Id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

A) Ego B) Super Ego C) Psyche D) Mind



49. The property of a text or speech for which no equivalent can be found when translated into another language is called:

A) Unique code B) Untranslatability

C) Target Deficient D) Source Deficient



50. According to Anandavardhana, the third class of poetry which does not have

any suggested meaning is:

A) Dhvanikavya B) Citrakavya

C) Gunibhuta Vyangya D) Vastudhvani



51. Auchitya Vichara Charcha is the treatise written by:

A) Kshemendra B) Anandavardhana

C) Bharatamuni D) Bhavabhuti



52. The path-breaking book in post-colonial criticism published by the scholars Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin in 1989:

A) Imagined Communities B) The Location of Culture

C) The Empire Writes Back D) Culture and Imperialism



53. Raymond Williams’s essay “Culture is Ordinary” was published in the year---.

A) 1955 B) 1956 C) 1957 D) 1958



54. Which of the following statement/s regarding Grammar Translation method is/are true?

1. The first language is maintained as the reference system in the acquisition of the second language

2. In GT method teacher gives sentences and parts of lessons to translate from L1 to L2 and L2 to L1.

A) Both 1 and 2 B) 1 only

C) 2 only D) Neither 1 nor 2



55. Comprehensive Evaluation implies the evaluation of learners’ performance carried out in:

A) Academic subjects

B) Co-curricular activities

C) Summative assessment

D) Both Scholastic and co-scholastic areas



56. When a pidgin is acquired by children as their native language it is said to be a---.

A) Creole B) Diglossia C) Idiolect D) Dialect



57. A combination of face to face teaching and Computer Assisted Language

Learning is referred to as-----.

A) Community teaching B) Blended learning

C) Reflective learning D) Cooperative learning



58. Which of the following statement/s regarding English for Specific Purpose

is/are right?

1. ESP focuses on the development of English language communication needs, customised according to the requirements of the learner.

2. ESP follows the same syllabus for all age groups with language in context.

A) 1 only B) Both 1 and 2

C) 2 only D) Neither 1 nor 2



59. Arnold Wesker renamed his play The Merchant as ---- based on Shakespeare’s character.

A) Antonio B) Shylock C) Portia D) Bassanio



60. John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” is thought to be derived from the autobiography of-----.

A) John Braine B) John Wain C) Leslie Paul D) Adam Driver



61. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. Lakdasa Wikramasinha 1. Monkfish Moon

b. Romesh Gunesekera 2. An Old Chair

c. Alamgir Hashmi 3. Lajja

d. Taslima Nasreen 4. The Grasshopper Gleaming

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

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



62. The two basic experiences of plasir and jouissance from a text was propounded by:

A) Roland Barthes B) Jacques derrida

C) Paul Ricoeur D) David Lodge



63. The Book that won Rachel Carson the US National Book Award for Non[1]fiction in 1952:

A) The Silent Spring B) The Edge of the Sea

C) The Sea Around Us D) Under the Sea Wind



64. The Gynocritical approach of feminist literary criticism was proposed by:

A) Helene Cixous B) Virginia Woolf

C) Elaine Showalter D) Simone de Beauvoir



65. ----- coined by Adrienne Rich, is a phrase that incorporates the greatest possible variation of female identified experience.

A) Lesbian continuum B) Radical lesbians

C) Political lesbian D) Lesbian feminism



66. The 4 defining characteristics of cultural materialism mentioned in Political Shakespeare are Historical context, Close Textual Analysis, Political Commitment and -----.

A) Inductive method B) Deductive method

C) Incidental method D) Theoretical method



67. “Man is above all else mind, consciousness.. that is, he is a product of history, not of nature” is said by:

A) Karl Marx B) Antonio Gramsci

C) Althusser D) Sigmund Freud



68. In Northrop Frye’s Classification of five different spheres, animals in the ----- genres are docile and pastoral.

A) Tragic B) Comedic C) Satire D) Romance



69. Which of the following statement/s by T. S. Eliot in Tradition and Individual Talent is/are true?

1. The historical sense which is a sense of timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together is what makes a writer traditional.

2. Poetry is a turning loose of emotion, but not an escape from emotion; it is the expression of personality, not an escape from personality.

A) Both 1 and 2 B) 1 only

C) 2 only D) Neither 1 nor 2



70. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. Longinus 1. Lamia

b. Philip Sidney 2. Preface to Shakespeare

c. Johnson 3. On the Sublime

d. Keats 4. Apology for Poetry

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

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



71. “It was my thirtieth year to heaven” is the beginning line of the poem:

A) Poem in October B) Fern Hill

C) Poem On His Birthday D) Shiloh’s Seed



72. The Australian poet who fought to preserve the Great Barrier Reef and campaigned against sand mining in Fraser Island:

A) Margaret Atwood B) Donna Allard

C) Judith Wright D) Roo Borson



73. Les Murray’s “The Last Hellos” is an elegy written for his-----.

A) Father B) Friend C) Teacher D) Neighbour



74. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” is a quote from the essay:

A) Civil Disobedience B) Self-Reliance

C) Of Truth D) Of Constancy



75. Who among the following is not a character in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter?

A) Arthur Dimmesdale B) Roger Chillingworth

C) Jean Louise Finch D) John Wilson



76. The poem by E. J. Pratt that depicts the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line in Canada is----.

A) Towards the Last Spike B) Erosion

C) The Witches’ Brew D) The Titanic



77. Which among the works given is not written by Patrick White?

A) The Solid Mandala B) The Tree of Man

C) Happy Valley D) My Place



78. Such a Long Journey, Family Matters and A Fine Balance are famous works of the writer:

A) Joy Kogawa B) Rohinton Mistry

C) Claire Harris D) Michael Ondaatje



79. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. T P Kailasam 1. Nagamandala

b. Girish Karnad 2. Goa

c. Asif Currimbhoy 3. The Artist’s Model

d. Manjula Padmanabhan 4. The Brahmin’s Curse

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

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



80. The narrator in Ben Okri’s novel The Famished Road is-----

A) The Landlord B) Jeremiah

C) Madame Koto D) Azaro



81. The tragic flaw on the part of the Greek hero is called------.

A) Anagnorisis B) Hamartia

C) Nemesis D) Peripetia



82. Who said that “for the creation of a master-work of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment”:

A) Matthew Arnold B) T S Eliot

C) Cleanth Brooks D) I A Richards



83. According to I A Richards, Rhythm and its specialised form, metre, depend upon ----.

A) Repetition and Expectancy

B) Movement and Rubato

C) Beat and Tempo

D) Recurrence and Polyphony



84. Hardy’s Wessex comprises of ----counties in South England.

A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8



85. “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” This quote is from the novel:

A) The Professor B) Jane Eyre

C) Wuthering Heights D) Agnes Grey



86. In The Importance of Being Earnest, ----says: “The truth is rarely pure and never simple”.

A) Algernon B) Jack

C) Lady Bracknell D) Gwendolen



87. Which of the following is not the work of G B Shaw?

A) You Never Can Tell

B) The Apple Cart

C) Mrs. Warren’s Profession

D) Strife



88. Which poem exemplifies Hopkins’s use of sprung rhythm?

A) Easter Day B) Windhover

C) The Falcon D) Song of the Rain



89. Which of the following statements regarding Macaulay’s Minutes are true?

1. Macaulay presented the minutes on Indian education on 2nd February 1835.

2. Lord Macaulay proposed the government to educate only a few Indians, who would then educate the rest of the population.

3. Lord Dalhousie approved the resolution in March, 1835.

A) 1 and 2 only B) 2 and 3 only

C) 1 and 3 only D) 1, 2 and 3



90. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. W. H Auden 1. In Autumn Journal

b. Cecil Day Lewis 2. The Unknown Citizen

c. Stephen Spender 3. Tempt me no more

d. Louis MacNeice 4. The Pylons

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

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



91. Which among the following is arranged in the correct chronological order?

A) Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Pericles, Othello

B) Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Pericles

C) Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, Henry V

D) Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Othello, Pericles



92. Which of the following is not a play of Ben Jonson?

A) The Alchemist B) Cynthia’s Revels

C) Volpone D) The White Devil



93. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,/ Creeps into this petty pace from day to day/ To the last syllable of recorded time// are lines from the soliloquy of:

A) Hamlet B) Macbeth C) King Lear D) Othello



94. Which of the following statement/s regarding Shakespeare’s sonnets is/are not true?

1. Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets were first published together in a quarto in 1609.

2. Shakespeare’s sonnets from number 1 to 27 are generally called as procreation sonnets.

3. The rhyme scheme of a Shakesperean sonnet is ababcdcdefef gg.

A) 1 and 2 only B) 1 and 3 only

C) 2 only D) 1 only



95. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. John Lyly 1. James IV

b. George Peele 2. The Wounds of Civil War

c. Robert Greene 3. The Old Wive’s Tale

d. Thomas Lodge 4. Love’s Metamorphosis

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

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



96. The author of A Vindication of Natural Society :

A) Edmund Burke B) John Locke

C) David Hume D) Boswell



97. Which among the following is arranged in the correct sequential order of its publication?

A) Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, The Adventures of Roderick Random

B) Pamela, Joseph Andrews, The Adventures of Roderick Random, Tristram Shandy

C) Joseph Andrews, Pamela, Tristram Shandy, The Adventures of Roderick Random

D) Joseph Andrews, Pamela, The Adventures of Roderick Random,Tristram Shandy



98. The epilogue to “School for Scandal” was written by:

A) R. B. Sheridan B) Oliver Goldsmith

C) George Colman D) Dr. Johnson



99. “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day” is the beginning line of the poem:

A) For Whom the Bell tolls

B) Church Going

C) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

D) Casualty



100. Which among the following statements regarding Lyrical Ballads are true?

1. The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is considered to be the beginning of Romantic movement in English literature.

2. Wordsworth contributed 19 poems and Coleridge added 6 poems to the first edition.

3. Wordsworth removed his poem “convict” in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads.

A) 1 and 2 only B) 1 and 3 only

C) 2 and 3 only D) 1, 2 and 3



101. Which among the following is not a poem of Wordsworth?

A) Lucy Gray B) Old Man Travelling

C) The Dungeon D) The Thorn



102. In which poem does Coleridge say://O Lady! We receive what we give/And in our life does nature live. //

A) Dejection: An Ode B) Christabel

C) Julia D) To Fortune



103. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. Byron 1. The Witch of Atlas

b. Shelley 2. The Lady of the Lake

c. Keats 3. The Bride of Abydos

d. Walter Scott 4. La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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

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



104. The first Gothic novel in English is-----.

A) The Castle of Otranto B) Melmoth the Wanderer

C) Frankenstein D) Rebecca



105. The character that is not present in the novel Emma is:

A) George Knightley B) Jane Fairfax

C) Harriet Smith D) Lydia Bennet



106. An essay not written by Elia?

A) The Praise of Chimney Sweepers

B) The Confessions of an Opium Eater

C) Two Races of Men

D) Poor Relations



107. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft was published in the year:

A) 1792 B) 1794 C) 1796 D) 1798



108. The scientific work published in 1859 that created a furore in Victorian thinking:

A) The Dog Crusoe and his Master

B) The Conduct of Life

C) Three Times Dead

D) The origin of Species



109. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. Tennyson 1. Empedocles on Etna

b. Robert Browning 2. Aurora Leigh

c. Matthew Arnold 3. The Eagle

d. Elizabeth Browning 4. Andrea del Sarto

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

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



110. Which of the following statements regarding Pre-Raphaelites are true?

1. It was a movement to revive the simplicity, freshness and freedom in the paintings of the early Italian painters.

2. They were both painters and poets and sought to introduce the same features in their poetry too.

3. The Pre-Raphaelites upheld the dictum “art for art’s sake”.

4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt and J E Millais were members of the group.

A) 1and 3 only B) 2 and 4 only

C) 2 and 3 only D) 1, 2, 3 and 4



111. Imaginary Portraits dealing with artists is the work of :

A) Swinburne B) John Ruskin

C) Carlyle D) Walter Pater



112. The famous poem written by Cardinal Newman:

A) First Sunday After Christmas

B) Easter Eve

C) Lead Kindly Light

D) Sun of My Soul



113. Which among the following works of Dickens is arranged in the correct sequential order of its publication?

A) Our Mutual Friend, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Pickwick Papers

B) Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend

C) A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Pickwick Papers, Our Mutual Friend

D) A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend, Pickwick Papers



114. -------- is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan.

A) Pilgrim’s Progress B) Grace Abounding

C) The Holy War D) The Life and Death of Mr. Badman



115. Millamant and Mirabell are characters in the play -----.

A) The Way of the World B) The Comical Revenge

C) The Country Wife D) Confederacy



116. The Part of the title “A satire upon True-blue Protestant poet T. S.” belongs to the poem:

A) Medal

B) The Hind and the Panther

C) Absalom and Achitophel

D) Mac Flecknoe



117. The shrewd critic of Drama in Spectator Club is-----.

A) Roger de Coverley

B) Sir Andrew Freeport

C) The member of the Inner Temple

D) Captain Sentry



118. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. Joseph Addison 1. Review

b. Dr. Samuel Johnson 2. The Spectator

c. Oliver Goldsmith 3. The Rambler

d. Daniel Defoe 4. The Bee

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

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



119. Match List I with List II

List I List II

a. John Donne 1. The Altar

b. George Herbert 2. To His Coy Mistress

c. Henry Vaughan 3. The Canonisation

d. Andrew Marvell 4. The World

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

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



120. The epigraph to Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’is taken from-----.

A) Dante’s Inferno B) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

C) Spenser’s Epithalamion D) Satyricon by Petronius

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ANSWER KEY:

STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - January - 2023
(Conducted on 22/01/2023)

ANSWER KEYS
Published on 23/01/2023

English[23107-A]

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