KERALA SET  DECEMBER 2013 (held on 02.02.2014)

(Paper Code: 14207)

1. Who was Ben Jonson referring to when he said “he writes no language“?

A) Lyly

B) Shakespeare

C) Chaucer

D) Spenser



2. Which work of Chaucer is an adaptation of Il Filostrato?

A) The Canterbury Tales

B) Troilus and Criseyde

C) The House of Fame

D) The Legend of Good Women



3. The White Devil is a play written by ------------

A) Thomas Kyd B) Middleton

C) Webster D) Tourneur



4. ---------- was written by Chaucer on the death of Blanche of Lancaster in 1368.

A) The House of Fame

B) The Parliament of Fowls

C) The Legend of Good Women

D) The Book of the Duchess



5. From where did the genre of the medieval comic tale called fabliau originate?

A) Spain B) England

C) France D) Ireland



6. The Miller’s Tale describes the cuckolding of an Oxford carpenter by a clerk named ----------

A) Alisoun B) Absolon

C) Nicholas D) Reeve



7. Identify the correct chronological sequence:

A) Spenser – Chaucer – Wordsworth – Thomas Kyd

B) Spenser – Wordsworth – Tennyson – Auden

C) Shakespeare – Spenser – Larkin - Mathew Arnold

D) Shelley – Spenser – Tennyson – Eliot



8. In The CanterburyTales------ is a version of The Wedding of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell

A) The Miller’s Tale B) The Wife of Bath’s Tale

C) The Clerk’s Tale D) The Knight’s Tale



9. Who said “Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes morebitter”?

A) Addison B) Lamb

C) Bacon D) Hobbes



10. ----------- appears as the knight of holiness in Book I of Spenser’s The Faerie Queen

A) Redcross B) Orgoglio

C) Una D) Archimago



11. Hobbe’s most famous work ------- was published in 1651

A) Leviathan B) In Retreat

C) Behemoth D) The Golden Legend



12. Bacon’s essays published in 1612 was subtitled ---------

A) Moral Meditations B) Counsels, Civil and Moral

C) Religious Essays D) Counsels, Civil Essays



13. Which is the historical text written by Thomas More?

A) The History of Henry II B) The History of Richard I

C) The History of Henry IV D) The History of Richard III



14. The poem beginning “Death, be not proud” was written by ----------

A) John Keats B) John Donne

C) Sylvia Plath D) Emily Dickinson



15. ---------- used the carpe diem mode in To His Coy Mistress

A) Keats B) Vaughan

C) Marvell D) Cowley



16. ---------- was the first to apply the term metaphysics to 17th century poetry.

A) Dryden B) Donne

C) Eliot D) Wordsworth



17. In which play does the character Gaveston appear?

A) Tempest B) The Midsummer Night’s Dream

C) Edward II D) Tamburlaine the Great



18. ------------ is considered the earliest archetypal morality play

A) Everyman B) The Second Shepherd’s Play

C) Discretion D) Good and Evil



19. Who was the precursor to Chaucer’s device used in The Canterbury Tales where characters narrate stories?

A) Francesco Petrarch B) Giovanni Boccaccio

C) Baldassare Castiglione D) Dante Alighieri



20. ----------- is the subtitle of Jonson’s play Epicoene.

A) Volpone B) Sejanus

C) The Silent Woman D) Bartholomew Fair



21. Which play of Shakespeare was inspired by the wreck of a ship on the Bermuda Island?

A) Cymbeline

B) The Two Gentlemen of Verona

C) Titus Andronicus

D) The Tempest



22. The Comedy of Errors was written by --------

A) Ben Jonson B) Shakespeare

C) Oscar Wilde D) Dryden



23. In which critical work did Wilson Knight focus on the imagery and patterning in

Shakespeare’s tragedies?

A) Shakespeare’s Imagery

B) What Happens in Hamlet

C) The Development of Shakespeare’s Imagery

D) The Wheel of Fire



24. ---------- was one of the most beloved clowns in the Elizabethan Theatre

A) Thomas Nash B) John Lyly

C) Charles Boyce D) William Kempe



25. ----------- is the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A) Theseus B) Oberon

C) Titania D) Demetrius



26. Emilia in Shakespeare’s Othello is killed by -----------

A) Rodrigo B) Othello

C) Cassio D) Iago



27. Who proclaims a military funeral for Hamlet at the end of the play?

A) Claudius B) Laertes

C) Fortinbras D) Polonius



28. In which play do you find this line “Nothing will come of nothing”?

A) King Lear B) The Taming of the Shrew

C) Macbeth D) Othello



29. Which critical work credits Shakespeare with the “largest and most comprehensive soul”?

A) BiographiaLiteraria

B) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

C) Characters of Shakespeare’s plays

D) The Family Shakespeare



30. In which play does the character Falstaff appear?

A) Hamlet B) The Merry Wives of Windsor

C) Love’s Labour’s Lost D) Romeo and Juliet



31. In which Shakespearean play do you find the line “A little more than kin, and

less than kind”?

A) Hamlet B) Othello

C) King Lear D) Macbeth



32. Who says “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve”?

A) Othello B) Emilia

C) Iago D) Cassio



33. ---------- is the twin brother of Viola in Twelfth Night

A) Antonio B) Sebastian

C) Orsino D) Malvolio



34. Who is the villain in Shakespeare’s poem The Rape of Lucrece?

A) Arthur Michell B) Wriothesley

C) Terence D) Tarquin



35. The theory of Catharsis is associated with ----------

A) Plato B) Dryden

C) Aristotle D) Hegel



36. In which of Shakespeare’s plays do you find this quotation “The nature of bad news infects the teller”?

A) Tempest B) Hamlet

C) Othello D) Antony and Cleopatra



37. The Anthology titled Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism was edited by -----------

A) Harold Bloom B) Dollimore and Sinfield

C) Parker and Hartman D) Russ McDonald



38. Whose words are these?

It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing

A) Macbeth B) Lady Macbeth

C) Weird Sister D) Macduff



39. By whom was the essay Hamlet and His Problems written?

A) Bradley B) Freud

C) Eliot D) Wilson Knights



40. In which play do you find these opening lines:

Two households, both alike in dignity

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene

A) The Midsummer Night’s Dream

B) Two Gentlemen of Verona

C) Measure for Measure

D) Romeo and Juliet



41. Who was the first to criticize Milton’s language as “harsh and barbarous”?

A) Jonson B) Johnson

C) Dryden D) Wordsworth



42. The Dunciad was written by ----------

A) Dryden B) Pope

C) Tennyson D) Swift



43. Which of the angels is not mentioned in Paradise Lost?

A) Valentine B) Michel

C) Raphael D) Gabriel



44. The prose romance Arcadia was described by --------- as “idle work” and “a trifle”

A) Shelley B) Milton

C) Dryden D) Coleridge



45. The character Sir Roger was a creation of -----------

A) Dryden B) Lamb

C) Addison D) Milton



46. In which theatre was Dryden’s The School for Scandal first performed?

A) The Globe B) Drury Lane Theatre

C) Claventon Playhouse D) Albert Theatre



47. Who wrote The Medal of John Bayes?

A) Dryden B) Pope

C) Shadwell D) Shaftesbury



48. The trivial event of the cutting of a lock of hair of----------- triggered the creation of The Rape of the Lock by Pope

A) Lady ArabellaFermonB) Lady Elizabeth Barret

C) Lady LucretiaRaworth D) Lady Boswell Kingsley



49. The Pickwick Papers was written by----------

A) Thackeray B) Dickens

C) Stevenson D) Hardy



50. Give the other term for “when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”

A) Objective correlative B) Dissociation of sensibility

C) Negative capability D) Stream of consciousness



51. The fight between the Ancients and the Moderns in Swift’s The Battle of the Books is to occupy the peak of - ---------

A) Pallas B) Cornhill

C) Arthur’s Count D) Parnassus



52. What is the subtitle of Wordsworth’s The Prelude?

A) Growth of a Poet’s Mind B) Philosophy of a Poem

C) Nature, Man and Society D) Poetic Imagination



53. The five-act tragedy The Cenci was written by ---------

A) Sheridan B) Shelley

C) Dryden D) Byron



54. Which work of Byron made him remark “woke one morning and found myself famous”?

A) Fugitive Pieces B) British Bards

C) The Vision of Judgement D) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage



55. The Heart of Midlothian is written by -----------

A) Joseph Conrad B) John Ruskin

C) Walter Scott D) Charles Dickens



56. Hopkins’ work ------------ .is dedicated to the memory of five Franciscan nuns

A) The Windhover B) God’s Grandeur

C) Pied Beauty D) The Wreck of Deutschland



57. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is picked up on the streets of Liverpool by

A) Mr. Earnshaw B) Mr.Hindley

C) Mr. Hareton D) Mr. Edgar



58. Hopkins termed his “oratorical” poetic diction as -----------

A) Terzarima B) Blank Verse

C) Octavarima D) Sprung rhythm



59. In which poem does the following line occur: “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought?”

A) Ode to the West Wind B) Ode on a Grecian Urn

C) Ode to Skylark D) Ode to Nightingale



60. Elizabeth Bennet is a character in ---------

A) Emma B) The Mill on the Floss

C) Pride and Prejudice D) Wuthering Heights



61. Who was the subject of Yeats’ early love poetry?

A) Maud Gonne B) Lady Gregory

C) Countess Kathleen D) Anne Haniman



62. Yeats, Synge and Lady Gregory were members of the Irish National Theatre team who opened the --------- in 1904

A) Drury Lane Theatre B) The Globe

C) Irish Theatre D) Abbey Theatre



63. ---------- is not a section in Eliot’s Four Quartets

A) Ash Wednesday B) East Coker

C) Little Gidding D) Burnt Norton



64. --------- wrote the biography of Philip Larkin

A) Stephen Spender B) Andrew Motion

C) Ezra Pound D) TSEliot



65. ----------- does not belong to the Movement Poets

A) Andrew Motion B) D.J. Enright

C) Elizabeth Jennings D) John Wain



66. Imagism was influenced by the aesthetic theories of ----------

A) Keats B) Coleridge

C) Hilda Doolittle D) TEHulme



67. ---------- .is not one of Seamus Heaney’s collections of poems

A) Cliffs of Fall B) Death of a Naturalist

C) Wintering Out D) Field Work



68. The poem Hawk Roosting was written by ------------

A) Philip Larkin B) Sylvia Plath

C) Seamus Heaney D) Ted Hughes



69. In which play does Edward Bond make Shakespeare as the central character?

A) The Woman B) Bingo

C) Lear D) Restoration



70. Who wrote the poem Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher?

A) Sarojini Naidu B) Kamala Das

C) Nissim Ezekiel D) Keki N. Daruwallah



71. Greene’s The Power and the Glory is set in the city of ----------

A) London B) Mexico

C) Dublin D) Rome



72. Which of the following was not written by James Joyce?

A) The Yellow Book B) Dubliner

C) Ulysses D) Finnegan’s Wake



73. The pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair is ----------

A) George Eliot B) George Orwell

C) John Osborne D) Oscar Wilde



74. Which is the place connected to the events in Forster’s A Passage to India?

A) Malgudi B) Hastinapur

C) Chandrapore D) Durgapur



75. Who is not a character in Golding’s Lord of the Flies?

A) Nick B) Piggy

C) Ralph D) Simon



76. Who wrote the controversial workWhy I am not a Christian?

A) Russell B) Huxley

C) Strachey D) Golding



77. Sean O’Casey uses --------- techniques in Juno and the Paycock

A) Impressionist B) Imagist

C) Modernist D) Expressionist



78. Which of the following is not written by VSNaipaul?

A) The Financial Expert B) The Mimic Men

C) The Mystic Masseur D) The Area of Darkness



79. Toni Morrison’s first novel was -----------

A) Sula B) Song of Solomon

C) The Bluest Eye D) Tar Baby



80. Which of the following is not written by Chinua Achebe?

A) A Dance of the Forests B) Things Fall Apart

C) The Flute and the Drum D) Arrow of Gold



81. ---------- coined the term “The Great Vowel Shift.”

A) Otto Jesperson B) Thomas Pyles

C) David Crystal D) Richard Watson



82. The ‘o’ in the word ‘out’ is ----------

A) a long vowel B) a short vowel

C) a diphthong D) silent



83. Which grammatical item is not used in the sentence: “I took my big black dog to the vet yesterday”?

A) Adverb B) Adjective

C) Preposition D) Conjunction



84. Identify the ‘ӕ’ sound in one of the following words:

A) Face B) Base

C) Hand D) Apple



85. They have a lot of ---------- with the new project

A) Chicken feel B) Teething troubles

C) Cutting side D) Playing edge



86. The sound ‘ᴐi’ is found in one of the following words:

A) Naughty B) Should

C) House D) Annoy



87. Inflectional morphemes can be ---------

A) Infixes only B) Prefixes and suffixes

C) Suffixes only D) Prefixes only



88. How many syllables does the word ‘examination’ contain?

A) 2 B) 3 C) 5 D) 4



89. The study of the structure of words is called --------

A) Syntax B) Semantics

C) Phonology D) Morphology



90. Which of the following is not an irregular verb?

A) sing B) laugh C) swim D) sit



91. AIR is a/an ---------- for All India Radio

A) Acronym B) Portmanteau

C) Neologism D) Clipping



92. Homonym means -----------

A) Same word, different meaning

B) Same word same meaning

C) Different word different meaning

D) Different word same meaning



93. Reaction is a word that contains ----------

A) Bound morpheme +free morpheme

B) Free + bound morpheme + free

C) Bound +free morpheme+bound

D) Free+bound morpheme+bound



94. In which language family is the origin of English Language?

A) Latin B) North American

C) French D) Indo-European



95. What is Old-English also known as?

A) King’s English B) Anglo-Saxon

C) Celtic D) Indo-European



96. TG Grammar is based on the findings of ------------

A) Bloomfield B) Sapir

C) Chomsky D) Nordquist



97. ‘A whale of a time’ means ----------

A) Have a great time and enjoy oneself

B) Have a bad time with misfortunes

C) Have a busy time and with responsibilities

D) Have a lot of time and waste it



98. The Manager is extremely efficient but the corruption of his employees is his

A) Champ at the bit B) Achilles heel

C) Tooth and nail D) Fairplay



99. What is the synonym for the word ‘warily’?

A) Recklessly B) Incautiously

C) Gingerly D) Heedlessly



100. Which is not the antonym of the word ‘fortitude’?

A) Faintheartedness B) Mettle

C) Fearfulness D) Cowardice



101. Who said that “language is primarily an auditory system of symbols?”

A) Franz Boas B) Edward Sapir

C) Noam Chomsky D) Ferdinand de Saussure



102. --------- is not connected with Postcolonialism

A) Ashcroft B) Tiffin

C) Leela Gandhi D) Leavis



103. Orientalism is associated with --------

A) Edward Said B) T S Eliot

C) Homi K. Bhabha D) Jacques Derrida



104. TheDeath of the Authoris an essay by ----------

A) Barthes B) Freud

C) Bloom D) Derrida



105. Harold Bloom put forth the theory ---------- .based on Oedipus Complex.

A) Diachronic Approach B) The Anxiety of Influence

C) Diegesis D) Hermeneutics



106. ----------- might be described as a moral or philosophical critic who argues that works must have “high seriousness”

A) Eliot B) Derrida

C) Arnold D) CSLewis



107. Structuralist literary theory is based on the linguistic theory of --------

A) Bloomfield B) Saussure

C) Lacan D) Chomsky



108. Who introduced the term “Objective Correlative” in formalist criticism?

A) T S Eliot B) Arnold

C) Virginia Woolf D) C S Lewis



109. Which critic would most likely be concerned with the structures and patterns modelled on the seasons and on mythic categories?

A) T S Eliot B) Matthew Arnold

C) Derrida D) Northorp Frye



110. ----------- is Virginia Woolf’s contribution to feminist criticism

A) The Voyage out B) A Room of One’s Own

C) Between the Acts D) The Common Reader



111. Formalist critics were against ----------

A) Pathetic Fallacy B) Poetic Fallacy

C) Personal Fallacy D) Intentional Fallacy



112. ----------- proposed all female characters in 3 stages: the feminine, female, feminist.

A) Mary Wollstonecraft B) Elaine Showalter

C) Virginia Woolf D) Simon de Beauvoir



113. ---------- viewed that the unconscious and perception of oneself are shaped in the “symbolic” order of language.

A) Freud B) Jung

C) Lacan D) Foucault



114. The method of English Language Teaching by using mother tongue or native language is called ------------

A) Suggestopedia

B) Silent way

C) Grammar Translation Method

D) Audio-Lingual method



115. Multiple Intelligence is associated with ----------

A) Gardner B) Chomsky

C) Skinner D) Bloomfield



116. Krashen is noted for his ----------- theory

A) Second Language Acquisition

B) Operant Conditioning

C) Classical Conditioning

D) First language learning



117. CLT focuses on the acquisition of ------------

A) Linguistic competence B) Communicative competence

C) Grammatical competence D) Reading Competence



118. Who of the following is not associated with the Gestalt group of Psychologists?

A) Werthimes B) Piaget

C) Koffka D) Kohler



119. Interlanguage was a concept introduced by ---------

A) Skinner B) Chomsky

C) Selinker D) Watson



120. What does EAP mean?

A) English and Proficiency B) English Acquisition Proficiency

C) English Adult Programme D) English for Academic Purposes

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Answer Key: Published on 05/02/2014

ENGLISH[14207]

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