KERALA SET ENGLISH JUL 2024 (HELD ON 27.07.2024)

(Paper Code: 24707A)

1. Which of the following theories assumes that children have no innate ability to learn the language and rely on operant conditioning to form and improve their understanding and use of it?

A) Cognitivism B) Constructivism

C) Behaviourism D) Critical Pedagogy



2. Who is the founder of Critical Pedagogy?

A) Paulo Freire B) B F Skinner

C) Ivan Pavlov D) Edward Tolman



3. In ------- method, students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating sentences between the target language and the native language.

A) Direct B) Grammar Translation

C) Audio-lingual D) Situational



4. Which of the following terms is used to refer to the idiosyncrasies of an individual speaker?

A) Diglossia B) Sociolect

C) Idiolect D) Dialect



5. A.S. Hornby, Harold Palmer and Michael West are associated with:

A) Second Language Teaching

B) The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching

C) Grammar Translation Method

D) Audio-Visual Method



6. Competence and Performance are associated with:

A) Noam Chomsky B) Leonard Bloomfield

C) Zellig Harris D) Cliff Goddard



7. The process of shifting from one language or dialect to another, depending on the social context or conversational setting is called:

A) Code Switching B) Bilingualism

C) Conversion D) Translation



8. The influence of language learners' first language on their production of the language they learn is called:

A) L1 interference B) Code Mixing

C) Code Exchange D) L2 interference



9. Evaluation of the efficacy of a program or course at its conclusion is called:

A) Formative Evaluation

B) Summative Evaluation

C) Continuous and comprehensive evaluation

D) External Evaluation



10. The exponent of T G Grammar is:

A) Noam Chomsky B) Leonard Bloomfield

C) Jost Trier D) Michael Halliday



11. Which of the following is not a feature of CALL?

A) Blended Learning

B) Hybrid Learning

C) Technology mediated learning

D) Instructor centred learning



12. In Community language learning (CLL) the teacher acts as a:

A) Lecturer and Adviser B) Silent listener

C) Client and Collaborator D) Counsellor and a Paraphraser



13. What is the name of the horseman mentioned in Sidney’s Apology for Poetry?

A) Edward Wotton B) Pietro Pugliano

C) Stephen Gosson D) Edmund Spenser



14. What according to Coleridge is the “living Power and prime Agent of all human

Perception”?

A) Fancy B) Secondary Imagination

C) Primary Imagination D) Poetry



15. According to T S Eliot, “Shakespeare acquired more essential history from

Plutarch than most men could from the whole”:

A) British Museum B) World history

C) Chronicles D) European history



16. According to I A Richards, synaesthesis means:

A) Aesthetic enjoyment of work of art

B) A harmony and equilibrium of our impulses

C) The writer’s imagination

D) An esemplastic power



17. Defamiliarization is associated with:

A) Roman Jakobson B) Viktor Shklovsky

C) Boris Thomashefsky D) Boris Eichenbaum



18. Identify the true statements:

1. According to Louis Althusser, ideology is a system of representations.

2. Overdetermination occurs when a single-observed effect is determined by multiple causes.

3. Althusser argued that the bourgeoisie maintain power by using only repressive state apparatus.

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

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



19. Which of the following books is not a part of Claude Levi-Struss’ tetralogy, Mythologiques?

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

C) From Honey to Ashes D) The Savage Mind



20. Psychoanalysis is:

A) A critical tool B) An analysis of the human mind

C) A form of therapy D) A science of the human mind



21. According to Habermas, ------ is "made up of private people gathered together as a public and articulating the needs of society with the state".

A) Habitus B) Communicative Action

C) Public Sphere D) Modernity



22. Roland Barthes’ “Death of the Author” begins with a reference to:

A) Balzac’s Sarrasine

B) Foucault’s What is an Author?

C) Mallarme’s Les Fleurs du mal

D) Flaubert’s Madame Bovary



23. Match the following:

List I List II

a. Germaine Greer 1. The Feminine Mystique

b. Betty Friedan 2. Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint

c. Kate Millet 3. The Female Eunuch

d. Helen Cixous 4. Sexual Politics

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

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



24. “Feminism and the Subversion of Identity” is the subtitle of:

A) Bodies that Matter B) Gender Trouble

C) Excitable Speech D) Undoing Gender



25. The editor of the book, Nation and Narration:

A) Edward Said B) Bill Ashcroft

C) Homi K Bhabha D) Partha Chatterjee



26. Which among the following is not a characteristic of Cultural Materialism?

A) Historical context B) Discourse Analysis

C) Political commitment D) Theoretical method



27. The autobiography of Sharan Kumar Limbale:

A) Pradnyasurya B) Akkarmashi

C) Bahujan D) Jhund



28. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) was closed in:

A) 1964 B) 1986 C) 2000 D) 2002



29. “Every human society has its own shape, its own purposes, its own meanings. Every human society expresses these in institutions and in arts and learning.” These lines occur in:

A) The Ideas of Culture B) Culture is Ordinary

C) Problems of Materialism D) Advertising: The Magic System



30. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology was first published in:

A) 1996 B) 1986

C) 1982 D) 1990



31. ----- is that proper placing of things in such a manner that is perfect to arouse Rasa

and to avoid certain things that are not suitable to provoke Rasa.

A) Anumana B) Riti

C) Sphota D) Aucitya



32. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in:

A) 1986 B) 1974

C) 1976 D) 1984



33. The Future Poetry was first published in the monthly review:

A) Arya B) Aranya C) Bharati D) Anandamela



34. “Home is where we gather grace”- is the concluding line of the poem:

A) Background, Casually B) The Patriot

C) Night of the Scorpion D) Enterprise



35. Which novel by Nayantara Sahgal won the Sahitya Akademy Award of 1986?

A) Storm in Chandigarh B) Rich Like Us

C) Mistaken Identity D) Prison and Chocolate Cake



36. Who is the narrator in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura?

A) Moorthy B) Achakka

C) Narasamma D) Venkamma



37. Which of the following books by Achebe owes its title to the closing lines of T. S. Eliot's poem, "Journey of the Magi"?

A) Things Fall Apart B) Arrow of God

C) Anthills of the Savannah D) No Longer at Ease



38. Identify the true statements:

1. Nagamandala is a play within a play.

2. Rani is the narrator in Nagamandala.

3. The subtitle of Nagamandala is “Play with a Cobra”.

4. Nagamandala follows the tradition of Yakshagana.

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

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



39. The debut novel of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o:

A) Weep Not, Child B) A Grain of Wheat

C) The River Between D) Decolonizing the Mind



40. Frantz Fanon was a ------ by profession.

A) Teacher B) Psychiatrist C) Attorney D) Librarian



41. Omeros is an epic poem written by:

A) Derek Walcott B) George Lamming

C) Edward Brathwaite D) Athol Fugard



42. Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters is a:

A) Novel B) Short Story Collection

C) Poetry Collection D) Play



43. Which of the following novels of Michael Ondaatje describes the brutality of The

Sri Lankan civil war?

A) The English Patient B) In the Skin of a Lion

C) Anil’s Ghost D) Coming Through Slaughter



44. A Midsummer Eve’s Dream is a work by:

A) William Shakespeare B) A D Hope

C) Judith Wright D) Les Murray



45. The nationality of the author, Sally Morgan:

A) Australian B) Canadian C) Sri Lankan D) Caribbean



46. Which of the following is the autobiography of Taslima Nasrin?

A) Lajja

B) Amar Meyebela

C) Taslima Nasreener Godyo Podyo

D) Shodh



47. Which of the following is the correct phonetic transcription of the word –‘archipelago’?

A) /ɑ ː kɪ peləɡ əʊ / B) /ækɪ pelɑ ː ɡ əʊ /

C) /əkɪ pelɑ ː ɡ ɔ ː / D) /ækɪ pelɑ ː ɡ oʊ /



48. In Proto Germanic, a sound shift took place in which, the Indo-European voiceless stops became voiceless fricatives, voiced stops became voiceless stops, and voiced aspirated stops become simple voiced stops. Which among the following formulations is associated with the above changes?

A) Verner’s Law B) Grimm’s Law

C) Grassmann’s Law D) Lehman’s Law



49. The contextual variants of the same morpheme are called:

A) Free morphemes B) Allomorphs

C) Lexical morphemes D) Allophones



50. Place names ending with -by, -toft, -thwaite and -thorpe are examples of ------influence on Old English.

A) French B) Latin C) Celtic D) Danish



51. The word, ‘mutton’ is derived from:

A) Latin B) French C) Norse D) Anglo-Saxon



52. ---------- is a process, whereby a vowel is elided and the consonants on either side of it are run together, with the result that a syllable is lost.

A) Syncopation B) Telescoping

C) Abbreviation D) Metanalysis



53. The idiom, “kill the fatted calf” is derived from:

A) Shakespeare B) The Bible C) The Iliad D) Paradise Lost



54. Identify the true statement/s:

1. Langue is executive side of language, but parole is the legislative side.

2. The relation between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

3. The paradigmatic relationship exists in a horizontal plane.

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



55. The words “quantum” and “vacuum” are derived from:

A) Latin B) Greek C) German D) French



56. The first novel of Sir Walter Scott:

A) Ivanhoe B) Waverley C) Kenilworth D) Rob Roy



57. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published in:

A) 1789 B) 1798 C) 1792 D) 1790



58. Thomas De Quincey’s “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” refers to ------of Macbeth.

A) Act II Scene 3 B) Act I Scene 1

C) Act IV Scene 2 D) Act III Scene 1



59. The Great Exhibition of 1851 was conducted in:

A) Hyde Park B) Westminster C) Dublin D) Bradford



60. Which of the following is a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson?

A) Paracelsus B) The Holy Grail

C) Pauline D) The Faithful Shepherdess



61. Who among the following does not belong to the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood?

A) J. E. Millais B) D. G. Rossetti

C) W. Holman Hunt D) William Prescott



62. The Renaissance is a classic book by :

A) Oscar Wilde B) T S Eliot

C) Water Pater D) Matthew Arnold



63. A novel of Thomas Carlyle which has a reference to the thoughts and life of a German philosopher, Teufelsdrockh:

A) Sartor Resartus B) Past and Present

C) The Life of John Sterling D) Frederick the Great



64. Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians is a collection of -----essays.

A) 5 B) 6 C) 4 D) 3



65. Ebenezer Scrooge, the synonym for a miser in English language appears in the novel:

A) Hard Times B) Great Expectation

C) David Copperfield D) A Christmas Carol



66. The imaginary country of Angria is associated with:

A) Charlotte Bronte B) Emily Bronte

C) George Eliot D) R L Stevenson



67. Match the following:

List I List II

a. Far from the Madding Crowd 1. Susan

b. The Return of the Native 2. Gabriel Oak

c. The Mayor of Casterbridge 3. Liza-Lu

d. Tess of the D’Urbervilles 4. ClymYeobright

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

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



68. The novel which ends with the line - “All art is quite useless”:

A) The Picture of Dorian Gray

B) Our Mutual Friend

C) Women in Love

D) A Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman



69. Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism was first published in:

A) Blackwood Magazine B) London Magazine

C) Cornhill Magazine D) Harper’s Magazine



70. Identify the poet who had functioned as the editor of the magazine, The Hydra:

A) Wilfred Owen B) Robert Graves

C) Edward Thomas D) W B Yeats



71. Which among the following is a series of dramatic monologues written by W H Auden?

A) Homage to Clio B) The Oxford Book of Light Verse

C) The Sea and the Mirror D) The Shield of Achilles



72. Yeats’ epitaph, “Cast a cold eye/On life, on death. /Horseman, pass by!” is taken from his poem:

A) The Lake Isle of Innisfree B) Under Ben Bulben

C) Leda and the Swan D) Byzantium



73. Which section of The Waste Land begins and ends with references to two Shakespeare plays – Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet respectively?

A) The Burial of the Dead B) A Game of Chess

C) Fire Sermon D) Death by Water



74. The play, Thor with Angels was composed by:

A) John Galsworthy B) Arnold Wesker

C) J M Synge D) Christiopher Fry



75. Who coined the term, “The Movement”?

A) Philip Larkin B) J D Scott

C) Donald Davie D) Thom Gunn



76. “Through the window I see no star/Something more near/Though deeper within darkness/ Is entering the loneliness” – Identify the poem.

A) Hawk Roosting B) Lupercal

C) Poem in October D) Thought Fox

77. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in:

A) 1995 B) 1990 C) 1985 D) 1998



78. Identify the work which is not written by G K Chesterton:

A) The Napolean of Notting Hill

B) The Man who was Thursday

C) The Road to Tryermaine

D) Heretics



79. “Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end” – Who said so?

A) Bertrand Russell B) Virginia Woolf

C) John Osborne D) Joseph Conrad



80. Arrange the following novels in the chronological order in which they were published :

1. The Rainbow 2. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

3. The White Peacock 4. Sons and Lovers.

A) 3,4,2,1

B) 1, 2,3, 4

C) 3, 4, 1, 2

D) 4, 1, 3, 2



81. James Joyce’s, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man concludes with line - “I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my -----”

A) Class B) Race C) Nation D) Creed



82. Which among the following statements are correct about George Orwell?

1. He was born in Bengal Presidency.

2. He fought for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

3. Burmese Days was his last novel.

4. His real name is Eric Arthur Blair.

5. His Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949.

A) 1, 3& 4 only B) 1, 4& 5only

C) 2, 3 &4 only D) 1, 3 &5 only



83. “As soon as I got to Borstal, they made me a long distance cross-country runner”-

Who is the author of the short story that begins with this statement?

A) Allen Sillitoe B) Muriel Spark

C) John Wain D) Iris Murdoch



84. Who among the following is not associated with the Abbey Theatre?

A) W B Yeats B) Lady Gregory

C) J M Synge D) John Osborne



85. Match the following:

List I List II

a. Arms and the Man 1. Belzanor

b. Pygmalion 2. Louka

c. Caesar and Cleopatra 3. Poulengey

d. Saint Joan 4. Freddy

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

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



86. Look Back in Anger was published in:

A) 1956 B) 1952

C) 1961 D) 1966



87. Anna Wulf is the central character of:

A) The Grass is Singing B) Children of Violence

C) The Good Terrorist D) The Golden Note Book



88. Arrange Beckett’s trilogy in the order of their publication:

A) The Unnamable; Molloy; Malone Dies

B) Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

C) Malone Dies; Molloy; The Unnamable

D) The Unnamable; Malone Dies; Molloy



89. Which of the following works of Kazuo Ishiguro won the Booker Prize of 1989?

A) A Pale View of Hills B) An Artist of the Floating World

C) The Remains of the Day D) The Unconsoled



90. Who is the narrator of the story in The Scarlet Letter?

A) A merchant B) A Customs Officer

C) A Doctor D) A Minister



91. Which of the following is considered as the first detective story in American literature?

A) The Silent Bullet B) The Murders in the Rue Morgue

C) The Big Sleep D) The Secret of the Old Clock



92. The real name of Mark Twain:

A) Samuel Daniel B) Samuel Langhorne Clemens

C) Eric Blair D) William Sydney Porter



93. “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” – Which of the following poems of Frost opens with this line?

A) Birches B) Home Burial

C) The Gift Outright D) The Death of the Hired Man



94. The Colour Purple is a/an ------- novel.

A) Epistolary B) Picaresque

C) Historical D) Espionage



95. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is dedicated to:

A) John Gower B) John of Gaunt

C) William Langland D) Blanche of Lancaster



96. A workday in Utopia is ---- hours.

A) 5 B) 10

C) 6 D) 8



97. Who is described as “Great England's glory, and the world's wide wonder” in “Prothalamion”?

A) The Earl of Essex B) King Charles I

C) The Earl of Lancaster D) The Earl of Northumbia



98. Who offers a definition of poetry as “an art of imitation that teaches its audience

through delight or pleasure”?

A) Sydney B) Aristotle

C) Longinus D) Dryden



99. The Queen of Gorbuduc:

A) Marcella B) Hermion

C) Clotyn D) Videna



100. To which Greek mythological character is Faustus compared in the prologue in Dr Faustus?

A) Hercules B) Persius C) Icarus D) Theseus



101. Which among the following is not an Elizabethan theatre?

A) The Rose B) The Swan C) The Globe D) The Royal Opera



102. “Thou wretched, rash intruding fool” – Whom does Hamlet address in this line?

A) Polonius B) Rosencrantz

C) Guildenstern D) Claudius



103. The line – “remembrance of things past” appears in Sonnet No:

A) 18 B) 30

C) 136 D) 129



104. The phrase “dazzling darkness” is an example of:

A) Metonymy B) Oxymoron C) Chiasmus D) Anaphora



105. The book which bears the subtitle, “From This World to That Which Is to Come”?

A) Gulliver’s Travels B) Divine Comedy

C) Pilgrim’s Progress D) Dr Faustus



106. The poem which ends with the lines – “At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue/ To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new”:

A) Lycidas B) Thyrsis

C) In Memoriam D) The Scholar Gypsy



107. The first scene of Congreve’s The Way of the World is set in:

A) A Chocolate – House B) A Railway Station

C) Lady Wishfort’s Home D) A tea house


108. The century called the Age of Enlightenment:

A) 17th B) 18th

C) 19th D) 20th



109. Mrs Malaprop is a character in Sheridan’s play:

A) The School for Scandal B) The Critic

C) The Rivals D) The Camp



110. The diarist, Samuel Pepys was a/an ------ by profession.

A) Librarian B) Admiral officer

C) Priest D) Doctor



111. Which place is called ‘Augusta’ in the poem, “Mac Flecknoe”?

A) London B) Rome C) Dublin D) Long Acre



112. Which among the following is not a work by Jonathan Swift?

A) The Importance of the Guardian Considered

B) The Public Spirit of the Whigs

C) Drapier's Letters

D) The Christian Hero



113. Match the following:

List I List II

a. Defoe 1. Sir Charles Grandison

b. Richardson 2. Amelia

c. Smollet 3. Roxana

d. Fielding 4. The Reprisal

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

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



114. The name of the incompetent physician in Tristram Shandy:

A) Toby B) Walter C) Trim D) Slop



115. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard consists of ------ stanzas.

A) 30 B) 29 C) 32 D) 35



116. To whom is Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry dedicated?

A) The Duchess of Northumberland

B) The Countess of Athlone

C) The Countess of Harold

D) The Duchess of Lancaster



117. Who, according to Wordsworth is an example of a poet who produces pleasurable

poems from the plainest common sense?

A) Samuel Johnson B) Alexander Pope

C) John Dryden D) S T Coleridge



118. The verse drama composed by Wordsworth:

A) Hellas B) Osorio C) Remorse D) The Borderers



119. The novel which has the sub title. “A Gothic Story”:

A) The Romance of the Forest B) The Mysteries of Udolpho

C) The Italian D) The Castle of Otranto



120. “Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget/What thou among the leaves hast never known”. These lines occur in the poem:

A) Ode to a Nightingale B) Ode to Psyche

C) Ode to Melancholy D) To a Skylark

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ANSWER KEY

STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - July - 2024
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Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key	Qn.No	Key
1	C	21	C	41	A	61	D	81	B	101	D
2	A	22	A	42	D	62	C	82	B	102	A
3	B	23	A	43	C	63	A	83	A	103	B
4	C	24	B	44	B	64	C	84	D	104	B
5	B	25	C	45	A	65	D	85	B	105	C
6	A	26	B	46	B	66	A	86	A	106	A
7	A	27	B	47	A	67	C	87	D	107	A
8	A	28	D	48	B	68	A	88	B	108	B
9	B	29	B	49	B	69	C	89	C	109	C
10	A	30	A	50	D	70	A	90	B	110	B
11	D	31	D	51	B	71	C	91	B	111	A
12	D	32	C	52	A	72	B	92	B	112	D
13	B	33	A	53	B	73	B	93	C	113	A
14	C	34	D	54	B	74	D	94	A	114	D
15	A	35	B	55	A	75	B	95	A	115	C
16	B	36	B	56	B	76	D	96	C	116	A
17	B	37	D	57	C	77	A	97	A	117	B
18	C	38	B	58	A	78	C	98	A	118	D
19	D	39	A	59	A	79	B	99	D	119	D
20	C	40	B	60	B	80	C	100	C	120	A