KERALA SET ENGLISH JAN 2024 (HELD ON 21.01.2024)

(Paper Code: 24107A)

 

1. The only woman who finds mention in Lytton Strachey’s biography, Eminent Victorians:

A) Florence Nightingale B) George Eliot

C) Charlotte Bronte D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning



2. The process of natural assimilation involving intuition and subconscious learning is:

A) Learning B) Acquisition

C) Transfer of learning D) Accommodation



3. In Bloom’s Taxonomy, characterisation and responding come under:

A) Affective domain B) Cognitive domain

C) Psychomotor domain D) None of the above



4. Match the following:

List I List II

a. Tom Stoppard 1. Outsiders in Shakespeare

b. Howard Jacobson 2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

c. Akira Kurosawa 3. Shylock is My Name

d. Ania Loomba 4. Ran

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

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



5. “Marriage is but a ceremonial toy; If thou lovest me, think no more it”. These are the words by:

A) Faustus B) Mephistopheles

C) Penelope D) Cornelius



6. Vandana Shiva wrote the book, Ecofeminism in association with:

A) Mary Mellor B) Veronica Bennholdt

C) Maria Mies D) Ariel Salleh



7. The variation in the meaning of the word ‘lead’ (meaning ‘a metal’ and ‘to give guidance’) can be cited as an example for:

A) Homophony B) Homography

C) Antonymy D) Hyponymy



8. The totality of the speech habit of an individual is:

A) Idiolect B) Registers C) Dialect D) Sociolect



9. Which among the following is not a Dystopian novel?

A) Fahrenheit:451 B) Brave New World

C) 1984 D) Archaeologies of the Future



10. The preface to The Wretched of the Earth was written by:

A) Simone de Beauvoir B) Samuel Beckett

C) Harold Pinter D) Jean- Paul Sartre



11. Identify the correct statements regarding the words ‘Apple’ and ‘Apples’ below:

1. Apple is a disyllabic word

2. Apple is a monomorphemic word

3. Apples is a disyllabic word

4. Apples is a monomorphemic word

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

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



12. Which among the following phrases is a coinage of Shakespeare?

A) More sinned against than sinning

B) Cut to the quick

C) To prove a bitter morsel

D) Darkness visible



13. Match the British word in List I with its corresponding American word in List II

List I List II

a. Silencer 1. Mortician

b. Undertaker 2. Muffler

c. Guard 3. Gasoline

d. Petrol 4. Conductor

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

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



14. Which of the following statements regarding sonnets are true?

1. The sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter.

2. The sonnet form that originated in Italy was introduced into England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard

3. The Petrarchan sonnet rhymes ababcdcdefefgg

4. Edmund Spenser developed a varied form of sonnet in Amoretti

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

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



15. T.S. Eliot’s line “Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song” in The Wasteland is taken from:

A) The Faerie Queene B) The ShepheardsCalender

C) Epithalamion D) Prothalamion



16. Knowell is a character in Ben Jonson’s play:

A) Volpone B) Every Man in His Humour

C) A tale of a Tub D) The Alchemist



17. “O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” is a line from the soliloquy of:

A) Macbeth B) King Lear C) Hamlet D) Julius Caesar



18. Which of the following statements regarding Shakespeare’s First Folio are correct?

1. Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in 1623.

2. Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories &Tragedies, was the title of TheFirst Folio.

3. It was prepared by Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell.

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



19. The poet who did not belong to the Metaphysical school of poetry:

A) John Cleveland B) Richard Crashaw

C) Abraham Cowley D) Samuel Cobb



20. “And justifie the wayes of God to men” is a line from:

A) Paradise Lost Book I B) Paradise Lost Book IX

C) Paradise Lost Book X D) Paradise Lost Book XII



21. The Glorious Revolution of England took place in:

A) 1680 B) 1686 C) 1688 D) 1690



22. The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written by:

A) William Wycherley B) William Congreve

C) Oscar Wilde D) Oliver Cromwell



23. Which among the following is not a satire by Dryden?

A) Absalom and Achitophel B) Medal

C) Dunciad D) Mac Flecknoe



24. According to Steele, “In a word, all his conversation and knowledge has been in the female world.” This is about the character:

A) Rogerde Coverley B) Sir Andrew Freeport

C) Will Honeycomb D) Captain Sentry



25. Match the authors in List I with the works in List II

List I List II

a. Jonathan Swift 1. The Rights of Man

b. Dr. Samuel Johnson 2. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

c. Thomas Paine 3. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

d. John Locke 4. A Modest Proposal

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

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



26. Henry Fielding wrote Joseph Andrews as a parody of :

A) Richardson’s Pamela B) Smollet’s Roderick Random

C) Sterne’s Tristram Shandy D) Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe



27. An eye-witness account of the impact of Great Plague in London is seen in:

A) Samuel Pepys’Diary

B) Philip Stanhope’s Letters to His Son

C) Oliver Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World

D) William Cowper’s Letters



28. Which among the following statement/s regarding the influence of French Revolution in literature is/are true?

1. Shelley referred to French Revolution as “the master theme of the epoch in which we live.”

2. Wordsworth who visited France a year after the fall of the Bastille captured his sense of youthful excitement at the potential of the event in The Prelude.

3. Coleridge published Letters written in France after visiting Paris in 1790.

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



29. Which among the following is a sonnet by Wordsworth?

A) Lucy Gray B) The Prelude

C) London, 1802 D) The Solitary Reaper



30. “Water, water, everywhere,/ Nor any drop to drink” are lines from the poem:

A) Frost at Midnight B) Rime of the Ancient Mariner

C) A Day Dream D) Life



31. Match the poets in List I with their poems in List II

List I List II

a. Shelley 1. Isabella

b. Byron 2. The Lay of the Last Minstrel

c. Walter Scott 3. The The Vision of Judgement

d. Keats 4. Episychidion

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-4, b-3, c-2, d-1



32. The novels which carries the subtitle A Gothic Story:

A) The Castle of Otranto B) Melmoth the Wanderer

C) Frankenstein D) Rebecca



33. Which of these works by Jane Austen is an epistolary novella?

A) Emma B) Pride and Prejudice

C) Lady Susan D) The Watsons



34. The Children’s book co-authored by Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb is:

A) The Adventures of Ulysses

B) The Pawnbroker's Daughter

C) A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret

D) Tales From Shakespeare



35. Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) as a response to:

A) William Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

B) Erasmus Darwin’s Temple of Nature

C) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

D) Richard Price’s Discourse on the Love of Our Country



36. The Great Exhibition of London was held in:

A) 1850 B) 1851

C) 1852 D) 1853



37. Match the authors in List I with their works in List II

List I List II

a.Charles Dickens 1. Vanity Fair

b. William Thackeray 2. The Professor

c. Charlotte Bronte 3. Dombey and Son

d. George Eliot 4. Middle March

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

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



38. Which of the following statements regarding The Oxford Movement are true?

1. Cardinal Newman was the pioneer of the Oxford Movement.

2. Oxford Movement was also known as Tractarian Movement.

3. The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England that eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.

4. The movement favoured the materialism and utilitarianism of the Victorian age.

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

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



39. “A mans reach should exceed his grasp, Or What’s a heaven for?” are lines taken from the poem:

A) Rabbi Ben Ezra B) The Last Ride Together

C) Porphyria’s Lover D) Andrea del Sarto



40. The Queen Mother and Rosamond are verse dramas written by:

A) William Morris B) D. G. Rossetti

C) A. C. Swinburne D) Coventry Patmore



41. Novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that glamorised the lives of the criminals they portrayed are called:

A) Newgate novels B) Picaresque novels

C) Kunstlerroman D) Roman a Clef



42. Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character in Charles Dickens’ novel:

A) A Tale of Two Cities B) The Pickwick Papers

C) David Copperfield D) Oliver Twist



43. In which novel does Thomas Hardy describe Wessex as “a merely realistic dream country”?

A) Tess of the d’Urbervilles B) Jude the Obscure

C) The Woodlanders D) Far from the Madding Crowd



44. The sub-title of the play The Importance of Being Earnest:

A) A Serious Comedy for Trivial People

B) A Sentimental Comedy for Trivial People

C) A Sombre Comedy for Trivial People

D) A Suspense Comedy for Trivial People



45. Which among the following is a play by G B Shaw?

A) On the Rocks B) The Profligate

C) Justice D) Purple Dust



46. The first poem in which G M Hopkins used sprung rhythm:

A) Windhover B) The wreck of the Deutschland

C) Song of the Rain D) Easter Day



47. Which of the following statements regarding Received Pronunciation are true?

1. RP is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English.

2. It is the West Midland dialect spoken in London.

3. RP was also known as BBC English.

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



48. Match the authors in List I with their works in List II

List I List II

a. Ted Hughes 1. The Colossus

b. Thom Gunn 2. Wintering Out

c. Sylvia Plath 3. Meet My Folks

d. Seamus Heaney 4. My Sad Captains

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

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



49. The author who doesn’t belong to the Bloomsbury group:

A) Virginia Woolf B) Clive Bell

C) J M Keynes D) Jon Silkin



50. The Australian Nobel Prize winner whose unfinished work TheHanging Garden was published posthumously:

A) Patrick White B) J M Coetzee

C) Tim Winton D) Steve Toltz



51. The Club, The Department, Travelling North, The Perfectionist are plays of the Australian playwright:

A) Tommy Murphy B) David Williamson

C) Brendan Cowell D) Tom Wright



52. “If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man” is a quote from the essay:

A) Nature B) Civil Disobedience

C) Of Truth D) Self-Reliance



53. Lieutenant Frederic Henry, Miss Catherine Barkley, and Helen Ferguson are characters in the novel:

A) Wuthering Heights B) A Farewell to Arms

C) For whom the Bell Tolls D) The Sun Also Rises



54. Which among the following is a novel written by Sinclair Ross?

A) As For Me and My House

B) Who Has Seen the Wind

C) The Mountain and the Valley

D) The Double Hook



55. Judith Wright’s collection of poems published by the National Library of Australia in 2003:

A) Bora Ring B) City Sunrise

C) The Two Fires D) Birds



56. Drawing Down a Daughter, The Conception of Winter and The Prize of Pursuit are by:

A) Claire Harris B) Rohinton Mistry

C) Joy Kogawa D) Michael Ondaatje



57. Match the authors in List I with their corresponding works in List II

List I List II

a. Badal Sircar 1. The Fire and the Rain

b. Girish Karnad 2. Evam Indrajith

c. Asif Currimbhoy 3. Abu Hassan

d. Harindranath Chattopadhyay 4. Goa

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

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



58. The prose drama by J. P. Clark which documents Ngbilebiri history:

A) The Return Home B) Full Circle

C) The Boat D) The Raft



59. According to Aristotle, the purging of the emotions of pity and fear that are aroused in the viewer of a tragedy is:

A) Anagnorisis B) Hamartia

C) Catharsis D) Peripetia



60. Dissociation of Sensibility is a phrase used by T. S Eliot in his essay:

A) Tradition and Individual Talent

B) The Metaphysical Poets

C) A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry

D) The Function of Criticism



61. Who is called “The Morning Star of Reformation”?

A) John Calvin B) Thomas Cromwell

C) Martin Luther D) John Wycliffe



62. I. A. Richards divides the impulses of the human mind into:

A) Appetencies and Aversions

B) Good and Bad

C) Happy and Sad

D) Appetites and Antipathies



63. Northorp Frye aligns satire with the season:

A) Spring B) Summer C) Winter D) Autumn



64. Which of the following statements regarding structuralism is/are true?

1. The origins of structuralism are connected with the works of Ferdinand de Saussure on linguistics.

2. Saussure argued for a distinction between langue (an idealized abstraction of language) and parole (language as actually used in daily life).

3. Since different languages have different words to refer to the same objects or concepts, there is no intrinsic reason why a specific signifier is used to express a given concept or idea. It is thus "arbitrary."

A) 1 only B) 3 only

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



65. Which among the following is arranged in the correct chronological order of its publication?

A) Poetics, Orientalism, On the Sublime, An Apology for Poetry

B) On the Sublime, Poetics, Orientalism, An Apology for Poetry

C) An Apology for Poetry, Poetics, Orientalism, On the Sublime

D) Poetics, On the Sublime, An Apology for Poetry, Orientalism



66. The New Criticism movement derived its name from the book published with the same title in 1941 by:

A) John Crowe Ransom B) Cleanth Brooks

C) Allen Tate D) Robert Penn Warren



67. A book which is not authored by Rachel Carson:

A) Silent Spring B) The Sea Around us

C) The Edge of the Sea D) Literary Nevada



68. The term “gynocriticism” was coined by:

A) Adrienne Rich B) Virginia Woolf

C) Elaine showalter D) Sandra Gilbert



69. Who said that when writing begins, “the author enters into his own death”?

A) Derrida B) Roman Jakobson

C) Mikhail Bakthin D) Roland Barthes



70. According to Sigmund Freud, ---- can be considered as the conscience of the mind since it has the ability to distinguish between reality as well as what is right or wrong.

A) Id B) Ego C) Superego D) Eros



71. De La grammatologie was translated into English by:

A) Gayathri Chakravorty Spivak

B) Jacques Derrida

C) Terry Eagleton

D) Frederic Jameson



72. All texts are ‘translations of translation of translations’is a statement by----on translation.

A) Susan Bassnett B) Octavio Paz

C) Jakobson D) Peter France



73. Which of the following statements regarding Anandavardhana is/are true?

1. Anandavardhana said that dhvani is the ātman of poetry (kavya).

2. He classified the poems into three types : dhwani kavya, gunibhutavangiya kavya, chitra kavya

A) 1 only B) 2 only C) Both 1 & 2 D) Neither 1 nor 2



74. Which among the following is not a work of Bhavabuti:

A) Malatimadhava B) Uttararamacarita

C) Mahaviracharita D) Suvrittatilaka



75. The Singaporean poet who is regarded as one of the pioneers of English literature in Singapore is:

A) Romesh Gunasekhara B) Edwin Thumboo

C) Lakdasa Wikkramasinha D) Alamgir Hashmi



76. CALL in ESL is the abbreviation for:

A) Classroom And Language Learning

B) Computer Assisted Language Learning

C) Community Aided Language Learning

D) Cognitive Assessment Language Learning



77. Which of the following statements regarding Direct method of Language Teaching are true?

1. Direct Method arose as a response to the Grammar Translation Method.

2. In the direct method, the teacher must transfer meanings directly in the target language through demonstrations and visual aids.

3. Students will easily learn grammar and won’t have spelling errors.

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



78. The Caribbean poet who wrote the poem “South”:

A) Edouard Glissant B) Edward Brathwaite

C) Roland Robertson D) Derek Walcott



79. Identify the projector aid in teaching among the following:

A) Graphic aids B) Display boards

C) Audio aids D) Film strips



80. “Culture is ordinary, in every society and every mind” is a quote from:

A) Raymond Williams B) Terry Eagleton

C) Roman jakobson D) Roland Barthes



81. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 was awarded to the Norwegian author:

A) Jer Peterson B) Jo Nesbo

C) Jon Fosse D) Jostein Garder



82. The playwright who cannot be classified in the Kitchen Sink Drama group:

A) John Osborne B) Shelagh Delaney

C) Arnold Wesker D) Edward Albee



83. “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it” is a quote from:

A) Bertrand Russell B) Francis Bacon

C) Virginia Woolf D) George Orwell



84. The epithet used for Venkamma in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura:

A) Corner House B) Small Mountain

C) Waterfall D) Nose scratches



85. An example of an exercise of the Cognitive domain:

A) Typing an essay

B) Developing a photographic film

C) Describing a specific topic

D) Taking responsibility for maintenance



86. The most important advantage of giving home assignment:

A) It keeps the students busy in studies all the time

B) It develops the habit of self-study in students

C) It stops them from using mobile phones for sometime

D) It improves their handwriting



87. Before teaching the teacher has to:

1. Prepare the teaching lesson plan

2. Identify the objectives

3. Create a rapport with the students

4. Check the previous knowledge of the students

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

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



88. The author of the treatise Vākyapadīya:

A) Bhartuhari B) Panini

C) Kumarila Bhatta D) Jayant



89. If the voice moves from lower to higher pitch within a single syllable, it is an example of:

A) Accent B) Rising intonation

C) Falling Intonation D) Tonic syllable



90. “People are bloody ignorant apes”? is an utterance by the character----in Waiting for Godot.

A) Vladimir B) Estragon C) Pozzo D) Lucky



91. Match the authors in List I with their works in List II

List I List II

a. Philip Larkin 1. A Gun for Sale

b. Ted Hughes 2. Selling Manhattan

c. Carol Ann Duffy 3. The Less Deceived

d. Graham Greene 4. Birthday Letters

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

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



92. Identify the correct statement/s regarding Graphic novel:

1. Graphic novel is an offshoot of the adult comic culture, where the story is told mainly in pictures.

2. Serious literary themes and sophisticated art work are combined to form a narrative for mature readers.

A) 1 only B) 2 only C) Both 1 & 2 D) Neither 1 nor 2



93. William Blake expressed his strong views about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in his poem:

A) Jerusalem B) The Little Black Boy

C) The Sick Rose D) The Lamb



94. The Nobel laureate who is referred to as “the Mozart of Poetry”:

A) Wisława Szymborska B) Bob Dylan

C) Louise Gluck D) Mo Yan



95. “The Notice to the startled Grass/ That Darkness — is about to pass”. The figure of speech in the phrase ‘startled grass’ is:

A) Metaphor B) Alliteration

C) Personification D) Metonymy



96. Who said that poetry is “the best words in the best order”?

A) Wordsworth B) Coleridge

C) Keats D) Matthew Arnold



97. The language that does not belong to the Centum group of the Indo European family:

A) Italic B) Greek C) Celtic D) Czech



98. Second Language learners read texts for enjoyment and developing general reading in:

A) Intensive reading B) Extensive reading

C) Skimming D) Scanning



99. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is an anthology of literary ballads edited by:

A) Malory B) Walter Scott

C) Philip Sydney D) Thomas Percy



100. ………..plays used allegorical stories to teach a moral message, underpinned by Christian teachings.

A) Miracle B) Interludes C) Morality D) Corpus Christi



101. Who called Spenser “the poet’s poet”?

A) Wordsworth B) Coleridge

C) Dryden D) Charles Lamb



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

A) Jonathan Swift The Battle of Books, William Hazlitt Round Table, Thomas Carlyle Past and Present, E V Lucas Old Lamps for New

B) Jonathan Swift The Battle of Books, Thomas Carlyle Past and Present, William Hazlitt Round Table, E V Lucas Old Lamps for New

C) William Hazlitt Round Table, Jonathan Swift The Battle of Books, Thomas Carlyle Past and Present, E V Lucas Old Lamps for New

D) William Hazlitt Round Table, Jonathan Swift The Battle of Books, E V Lucas Old Lamps for New, Thomas Carlyle Past and Present



103. Which among the following is a gay fiction?

A) Nice Work B) The Swimming Pool Library

C) Lucky Jim D) Jill



104. The last line of the Spenserian stanza is called:

A) Couplet B) Conceit C) Alexandrine D) Punch line



105. In which of Hardy’s novels does the scene of a man selling his wife take place?

A) Far from the Madding Crowd

B) The Return of the Native

C) The Mayor of Casterbridge

D) The Woodlanders



106. The book which describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history:

A) The Voyage Out B) Orlando: A Biography

C) Mrs. Dalloway D) The Waves



107. Match the authors in List I with their works in List II

List I List II

a. Georgi Gospodinov 1. The White Tiger

b. Damun Galgut 2. The Promise

c. Anna Burns 3. Time Shelter

d. Aravind Adiga 4. Milkman

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

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



108. A volume of poetry written by Sarojini Naidu:

A) Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

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

C) Summer in Calcutta

D) The Other Voice: A Collection of Poems



109. The first Dalit autobiography to be published in Marathi:

A) Joothan B) Akkarmashi C) Baluta D) JinaAmucha



110. Savitribai Phule opened a school for girls in:

A) 1838 B) 1848 C) 1858 D) 1868



111. Identify the statement/s which is/are true regarding Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales:

1. Chaucer is indebted to Boccacio for the general idea of the Canterbury Tales.

2. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 tales in verse and prose, someincomplete, told as entertainment by a group of pilgrims riding from London to the shrine of Thomas à Beckett in Canterbury.

3. Harry Bailley is the owner of the Tabard Inn who volunteers to travel with the Pilgrims.

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



112. “And over the seawet church the size of a snail”. The rhetorical device used in the line is:

A) Simile B) Anaphora

C) Personification D) Alliteration



113. Author of the 1914 novel The war That Will End War claiming that World War I would be the war to end all wars.

A) H. G. Wells B) G. K. Chesterton

C) Arnold Bennett D) Arnold Conan Doyle



114. Identify the correct chronological sequence of poems published in Indian literature:

A) Meghaduta, Night of the Scorpion, Palanquin -Bearers, Malayalam Ghazal

B) Meghaduta, Palanquin -Bearers, Night of the Scorpion, Malayalam Ghazal

C) Palanquin -Bearers, Night of the Scorpion, Malayalam Ghazal, Meghaduta

D) Palanquin –Bearers, Night of the Scorpion, Meghaduta, Malayalam Ghazal



115. Which of the following statement/s regarding Indo European Family of Languages is/are not true?

1. Indo-European family is also known as Proto-Indo European.

2. Sanskrit in the East and Latin in the West are the earliest Independent Indo- European languages.

3. Indo European Family has 9 branches.

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



116. Which among the following is a portmanteau word?

A) Phone B) Spork C) Plane D) Fridge



117. Assertion: /s/ in sick is a fricative sound in English.

Reason: /s/ is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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 stated reason is correct



118. The tonic stress in the word ‘continuous’ falls on the ---- syllable:

A) First B) Second C) Third D) Fourth



119. Raphael Hytholoday in Utopia is:

A) A doctor B) A philosopher and traveller

C) A prince’s counsellor D) An architect



120. The playwright who was not one of the University Wits:

A) John Lyly B) Christopher Marlow

C) Thomas Gray D) Robert Greene

-----------------

ANSWER KEY

STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - January - 2024
(Conducted on 21/01/2024)

ANSWER KEYS
Published on 22/01/2024

English[24107-A]

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