KERALA SET ENGLISH JUL 2019 (Held on 29.09.2019)

(Paper Code: 19707A)

1. Which character in Chaucer’s General Prologue was stout and brawny, with a wart on his nose?

A) The Summoner B) The Monk

C) The Miller D) The Pardoner



2. Whose excellent sonnets were the first to be linked by subject matter and theme?

A) Sir Thomas Wyatt’s B) Sir Philip Sydney’s

C) Sir Edmund Spenser’s D) Sir Walter Raleigh’s



3. To whom is Spenser’s sonnet sequence Amoretti addressed?

A) To the Queen B) To his secret lady-love

C) To a working class friend D) To his own wife



4. In which play of Shakespeare does the following line occur: “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

A) Julius Caesar B) Henry V

C) Henry IV D) Richard II



5. What did the mystery plays deal with?

A) Biblical themes B) Moral themes

C) Medieval themes D) Philosophical themes



6. “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships....” is the celebrated line from:

A) Tamburlaine B) Dr. Faustus

C) Edward II D) The Spanish Tragedy



7. From whom did Bacon borrow the general conception of the essay?

A) Seneca B) Montaigne C) Erasmus D) More



8. Who coined the phrase “Marlowe’s mighty line”?

A) Dr. Samuel Johnson B) Sir Philip Sydney

C) Francis Beaumont D) Ben Jonson



9. Which of the following plays begin with the line: “If music be the food of love, play on?”

A) The Twelfth Night B) As you like it

C) Much ado about Nothing D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream.



10. Who wrote the poem ‘The Retreat’?

A) George Herbert B) Richard Carshaw

C) Henry Vaughan D) Andrew Marvell



11. Who said of Shakespeare:

“Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy’s child,

Warble his native wood-notes wild.

A) John Dryden B) John Milton

C) John Keats D) John Vanbrugh



12. Sir Thomas Browne wrote Religio Medici to defend doctors against the charge of

A) Witchcraft B) Magic C) Astrology D) Atheism



13. Milton’s Areopagitica is a great impassioned treatise on ------.

A) The evils of monarchy B) Educational reforms

C) Freedom of the press D) The defence of Oliver Cromwell



14. Whose Diary provides a fascinating glimpse of London from 1660 to 1669?

A) Daniel Defoe B) Richard Lovelace

C) Amelia Lanier D) Samuel Pepys



15. Which allegorical work traced the life and journey of Christian from the City of

Destruction to Salvation?

A) Grace Abounding B) Profitable Meditations

C) The Twin Rivals D) The Pilgrim’s Progress



16. Which mock-herioc epic was based on a family quarrel between the Petres and Fermors?

A) The Dunciad B) The Rape of the Lock

C) Elosia to Abelard D) Windsor Forest



17. In which village did Thomas Gray live with his mother and aunts?

A) Stoke Poges B) Kilkenny West

C) Hertfordshire D) Aldeburgh



18. Which work of Wordsworth told the story of the growth of his own mind?

A) The Excursion B) Laodamia

C) Peter Bell D) The Prelude



19. Which work of Byron made him an overnight sensation?

A) The Prisoner of Chillon B) Don Juan

C) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D) The Dream



20. Who described Byron’s mock-epic Don Juan as “something wholly new and relative to the age.”

A) Shelley B) Keats C) Coleridge D) Southey



21. Which play of Shelley predicts humanity’s eventual freedom from tyranny?

A) Hellas B) The Cenci

C) Prometheus Unbound D) Adonais



22. Which poem of Keats begins with the line: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

A) Endymion B) To a Grecian Urn

C) To a Nightingale D) The Eve of St Agnes



23. In which year did William Wordsworth become the poet laureate?

A) 1843 B) 1839 C) 1848 D) 1850



24. Through which work did Mary Wollstonecraft defend the French Revolution?

A) Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

B) A Vindication of the Rights of Man

C) A Vindication of the Rights of Women

D) Mary A Fiction



25. ‘The Lotos Eaters’ presented a perfect picture of a life of:

A) Dreamful ease B) Harmony

C) Splendour D) Fantasy



26. Which quality of Keats impressed Tennyson the most?

A) Romanticism B) Sensuousness

C) Medievalism D) Imagery



27. Which Victorian poet wrote ‘God’s in His Heaven and all’s right with the world’?

A) Arnold B) Tennyson C) Browning D) Ruskin



28. In poems such as Fra Lippo Lippi and Andrea Del Sarto, Browning reflects his love for------.

A) Greece B) Italy C) France D) Spain



29. By which name does Lamb refer to his sister in his essays?

A) Mary B) Alice C) Bridget D) Dorothy



30. Which English poet defined poetry as a criticism of life?

A) Shelley B) Arnold C) Tennyson D) Macaulay



31. Which novel by Dickens is written against the background of the French Revolution?

A) A Tale of Two Cities B) Hard Times

C) Nicholas Nickelby D) Bleack House



32. Which poet wrote this celebrated line: “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

A) Browning B) Tennyson C) Arnold D) Kipling



33. Which is the best known poem of Edgar Allen Poe?

A) Israfel B) The Raven C) The Bells D) Eldorado



34. Whom does Arnold’s elegy ‘Thyrsis’ commemorate?

A) Arthur Hugh Clough B) Arthur Hallam

C) Arthur Jeffreys D) Arthur King



35. A Novel without a Hero is the sub-title of ------.

A) Pamela B) Hard Times

C) Vanity Fair D) Moll Flanders



36. Which novelist expressed that “happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain?”

A) Thomas Hardy B) Charles Dickens

C) Thackeray D) George Eliot



37. The phrase, Waverly Novels is associated with -----.

A) Henry Fielding B) Walter Scott

C) Henry James D) Thomas Hardy



38. William Blake’s later poetry is difficult to understand because it is -----.

A) Metaphysical B) Mystical

C) Menacing D) Mental



39. The famous line “.... where ignorant armies clash by night” is taken from a poem by

A) Wilfred Owen B) Matthew Arnold

C) W.H. Auden D) Siegfried Sassoon



40. Which play of Oscar Wilde has the sub-title, A Trivial Comedy for Serious people?

A) Lady Windermere’s Fan

B) An Ideal Husband

C) The importance of Being Earnest

D) A Women of No Importance



41. Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are together known as

A) War Poets B) Patriotic poets

C) Radical poets D) Flower poets



42. Who described himself, “my face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain”?

A) Dylan Thomas B) Ezra Pound

C) W.H. Auden D) Thom Gunn



43. The phrase “Stream of Consciousness” was used by ----- in his Principles of Psychology (1890).

A) Sigmund Freud B) William James

C) C.G. Jung D) D.H. Lawrence



44. To a great extend whose autobiography is Autumn Journal?

A) Yann Martel B) Louis Macneice

C) Andrew Motion D) Seamus Heaney



45. Which play of Pinter was his first great success?

A) The Love B) The Caretaker

C) The Birthday Party D) The Home Coming



46. Who found biography a depressed industry and transformed it into a fine art?

A) Bertrand Russell B) Lytton Strachey

C) John Ruskin D) James Boswell



47. Whose play teaches no lesson, has no moral, calls for no reform but depicts truth for its own sake?

A) J.M. Synge B) John Galsworthy

C) G.B. Shaw D) Arnold Wesker



48. Which poet used all kinds of symbols like, Rose, Falcon, Horn, Tower, Wind, Lion etc?

A) Ezra Pound B) Arthur Symonds

C) W.B. Yeats D) Owen



49. Which black preacher, traveller and novelist wrote the story of a 17 year old Harlem boy, John Grimes?

A) Toni Morrison B) James Baldwin

C) Ralph Ellison D) Langston Hughes



50. What does the term episteme signify?

A) Knowledge B) Archive C) Theology D) History



51. In Arstotle’s Poetics we read that it is the imitation of an action that is complete and whole, and of a certain magnitude... having a beginning, middle and an end. What is it?

A) Poetry B) Force C) Epic D) Tragedy



52. Who among the following writers asserted Common Wealth Literature does not exist?

A) Amitav Gosh B) V.S. Naipaul

C) A.K. Ramanujan D) Salman Rushdie



53. “There is nothing outside the text,” is a statement by:

A) Roland Barthes B) Jacques Derrida

C) Stanely Fish D) John Crow Ransom



54. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term ------.

A) Aporia B) Difference C) Erasure D) Supplement



55. “Heteroglossia” refers to:

A) Multiple variations of languages and ideas of a text

B) Juxtapositon of multiple voices in text

C) The comments as the margins of a text

D) The commentary relating to a text



56. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year.

A) 1995 B) 1996

C) 1994 D) 1998



57. Which Indian novelist and short-story writer is often known as the mouthpiece of the underdog?

A) Mulk Raj Anand B) Bhabani Bhattacharya

C) Nirad C. Chaudhuri D) Anita Desai



58. Which Indian poet was inspired by Edmund Gosse to choose Indian themes and scenery?

A) Chaman Nahal B) Meira Chand

C) Jayanta Mahapatra D) Sarojini Naidu



59. The method of learning / teaching which is opposed to passively receiving information:

A) The Direct Method B) The Structural Method

C) Constructivist Method D) Bi-lingual Method



60. ------ is the name given to a variety of language distinguished according to its use.

A) Register B) Dialect C) Inflexion D) Word order



61. The Emperor Jones is a play which can be labelled as

A) Realistic B) Expressionstic

C) Symbolistic D) Cubistic



62. Laura in the Glass Menagerie is

A) A healthy young woman

B) A sick young woman

C) A crippled and hypersensitive young woman

D) A psychopath



63. Which of the following was replaced by Communicative Language Teaching?

A) Motivational Approach

B) Structural Approach

C) Natural Language Processing

D) Situational Approach



64. The direct French influence on the English language during the Middle English period was in the form of ----.

A) Loss of inflections B) Intake of French words into English

C) Addition of inflections D) Force of word combinations



65. Which of the following provided theoretical basis for Audio-Lingual Method of Language Teaching?

A) Transformative Generative Linguistics

B) Cognitive Psychology

C) Behaviourist Psychology and Bloomfieldian Structural Linguistics.

D) Systemic Functional Linguistic



66. Which book is often said to inaugurate the subject - cultural studies?

A) Stuart Hall - Introduction

B) Raymond Williams - The Politics of Modernism

C) E.P. Thompson - The poverty of Theory

D) Richard Hoggart - The Uses of Literacy



67. Which cultural theorist is of the opinion that cultural studies is a tendency across disciplines?

A) Toby Miller B) Paul du Guy

C) Janice Radway D) Stuart Hall



68. Whose study states that Romances satisfy women’s needs that are not met by Patriarchy, all the while paradoxically re-inforcing it.

A) Nancy Chordorow B) Janice Radway

C) Chandrima Chakraborty D) Marie Leger



69. Which of the following is not true in Dalit aesthetics as given by Sharan Kumar Limbale?

A) The agony, assertion, resistance and anger of the dalits should be expressed.

B) Dalits experience should take precedence over speculation

C) Sympathy for the dalits should be generated

D) Ungrammatical language and different expressions should be used.



70. Match the following:

List I List II

a) Claude Levi-Strauss 1) Of Grammatology

b) Jacques Derrida 2) The Archaeology of Knowledge

c) Northop Frye 3) Structural Anthropology

d) Michel Foucault 4) Anatomy of Criticism

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

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



71. Match the following:

List I List II

a) Buchi Emecheta 1. Burger’s Daughter

b) Ama Ata Aidoo 2. Joy of Motherhood

c) Nadine Gordimer 3. Devil on the Cross

d) Ngugi Wa Thiongo 4. Our Sister Killjoy

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

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



72. Derrida’s American disciples were

A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J Hillis Miller

B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan

C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman

D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guttari



73. ‘Aphoristic’ is a term associated with the Essays of:

A) Roger Ascham B) Roger Bacon

C) Francis Bacon D) Charles Lamb



74. “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love” is a line from

A) “Death, Be Not Proud” B) “The Canonization”

C) “To His Coy Mistress” D) “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”



75. This person is not a character in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy:

A) Susannah B) Doctor Slop C) Trim D) Verges



76. The doctrine of ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ was advocated by:

A) Walter Scott B) Walter Pater

C) Walter Raleigh D) Walter de la Mare



77. “Eminent Victorians” is a work by:

A) James Tait B) Bertrand Russell



C) John Maynard Keynes D) Lytton Strachey

78. The title ‘Arms and the Man” is borrowed from:

A) Homer B) Virgil C) Chaucer D) Shakespeare



79. ‘Sprung rhythm’ was an innovation from:

A) Gerard Hopkins B) Philip Sidney

C) Dylan Thomas D) R.S. Thomas



80. “I am the enemy you killed, my friend”. This is a line from:

A) Strange Meeting B) Insensibility

C) Trench Duty D) Dreamers



81. ‘Doublespeak’ and ‘thoughtcrime’ are concepts found in the work:

A) Brave New World B) Fahrenheit 451

C) Nineteen Eighty-Four D) Homage to Catalonia





82. In “A Doll’s House”, Nora’s husband is:

A) Torvald B) Nils C) Krogstad D) Rank



83. Kazuo Ishiguro writes novels in:

A) Spanish B) Japanese C) English D) Korean



84. “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument/while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” These lines are by:

A) Sri Aurobindo B) Rabindranath Tagore

C) Toru Dutt D) Sarojini Naidu



85. The first poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry was:

A) Nissim Ezekiel B) Dom Moraes

C) A.K. Ramanujam D) Jayanta Mahapatra



86. Girish Karnad wrote plays in:

A) English and Hindi B) English and Marathi

C) English and Malayalam D) English and Kannada



87. I.P.A. stands for:

A) International Phonetic Association

B) International Phonetic Alphabet

C) International Phonological Association

D) International Phonemic Alphabet



88. The term which refers to the influence of one sound segment upon the articulation of

another, so that the two sounds become more alike, or even identical is:

A) Anticipation B) Assimilation

C) Amelioration D) Aspiration



89. Languages formed by attempts at communication by two mutually unintelligible speech communities can be called:

A) Pidgin B) Register C) Cant D) Dialect



90. The notion of ‘World Englishes’ was propounded by:

A) George Bernard Shaw B) Braj B. Kachru

C) Noam Chomsky D) Dwight D. Eisenhower



91. The official languages of the country are listed in this ‘Schedule’ to the Constitution of India:

A) First B) Fourth C) Sixth D) Eighth



92. CALL refers to:

A) Computer Assisted Language Learning

B) Cyber Assisted Language Learning

C) Close Assisted Language Learning

D) Classroom Agnostic Language Learning



93. The purgation of pity and terror through art is known as:

A) Hamartia B) Catharsis C) Mimesis D) Anagnorisis



94. Antonio Gramsci’s ideas on ---------- can be found in the work---------.

A) Marxist theory, Prison Notebooks

B) Insanity, Madness and Civilization

C) Morality, Genealogy of Morals

D) Literary theory, “The Death of the Author”



95. The Raw and the Cooked is a work by:

A) Susan Sontag B) James Frazer

C) Franz Boas D) Claude Levi-Strauss



96. In the work--------, Elaine Showalter traces the history of women’s literature in Europe in

three phases, which are ------,------, and --------.

A) Feminist Manifesto, female, feminist, femme fatale

B) Gynocritique, feminine, feminist, femme de guerre

C) Feminist Poetics, feminine, feminist, female

D) Towards a Feminist Poetics, feminine, feminist, female



97. Eurocentric prejudices against Asian and Arab-Islamic people and culture are examined by ------, in ------.

A) Edward Said, Orientalism

B) Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

C) Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth

D) Frantz Fanon, Black SkinWhite Masks



98. Erich Fromm presents a re-interpretation of the story of:

A) Adam and Eve B) The Judgement of Paris

C) The Hare and the Tortoise D) Noah’s Ark



99. The vakroti siddhantha was postulated by:

A) Bharata B) Kuntaka

C) Anandavardana D) Abhinavagupta



100. Match the names of writers and the names of groups/movements associated with them:

Writers Groups/Movements

a. Cecil Day-Lewis 1. Imagist Poets

b. Hilda Doolittle 2. Symbolist Poets

c. Stephen Mallarme 3. Confessional Poets

d. Robert Lowell 4. Pylon Poets

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

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



101. ‘Neoclassic’ writers shared the values of:

A) Radical innovation B) Traditionalism

C) Individualism D) Rebellion



102. The Battle of the Books takes place in the:

A) King James Library B) St James’ Library

C) James Royal Library D) James Regent Library



103. The “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” was first published in:

A) 1798 B) 1800 C) 1801 D) 1802



104. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a work by:

A) Rousseau B) De Quincey C) Coleridge D) Pope



105. Rudyard Kipling was born in:

A) Birmingham B) Belfast C) Bordeaux D) Bombay



106. Maud Gonne married:

A) John MacBride B) Thomas MacDonagh

C) James Connolly D) Padraig Pearse



107. Identify the one who is not a “Movement” writer:

A) Philip Larkin B) Thom Gunn

C) Ted Hughes D) Robert Conquest



108. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” This is a quote from:

A) Rousseau B) Thoreau C) Emerson D) Dickinson



109. The poem at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the US was read by:

A) Arthur Miller B) Henry Miller

C) Robert Frost D) Robert Penn Warren



110. Hukum Chand, Iqbal Singh and Juggut Singh are characters in a work by:

A) Raja Rao B) Mulk Raj Anand

C) R.K. Narayan D) Khushwant Singh



111. Azaro, the spirit child, is a character created by:

A) Ben Okri B) Ngugi Wa Thiongo

C) John Pepper Clark D) Athol Fugard



112. “The Wretched of the Earth” is an influential work by:

A) Paulo Freire B) Ivan Illich

C) Frantz Fanon D) Franz Kafka



113. “Lajja” is a work by:

A) Yasmine Gooneratne B) Taslima Nasrin

C) Edwin Thumboo D) Romesh Gunesekera



114. The branch of linguistcs that is concerned with meaning is known as:

A) Semiotics B) Semiology C) Semantics D) Symbology



115. The distinction between ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’ is discussed in:

A) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

B) Biographia Literaria

C) De Profundis

D) Preface to the Fables



116. Match the sub-titles/alternate titles with the titles of the works:

List I List II

a. Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1. Mistakes of a Night

b. She Stoops to Conquer 2. Virtue Rewarded

c. Pamela 3. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

d. The Importance of Being Earnest 4 A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

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

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



117. Match the quotes with their authors:

Quotes Authors

a. I am not Hamlet, nor was meant to be. 1. Dylan Thomas

b. The horror! The Horror! 2. T.S. Eliot

c. A terrible beauty is born. 3. Joseph Conrad

d. Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night. 4. W.B.Yeats

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

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



118. The theory of the impersonality of the poet was put forward by:

A) Samuel T. Coleridge B) Samuel Johnson

C) T.S. Eliot D) W.S. Merwin



119. “Akkarmashi” is the autobiography of:

A) Baburao Bagul B) Shantabai Kale

C) Sharankumar Limbale D) Namdev Dhasal



120. The concept of aucitya was discussed by:

A) Vamana B) Mammata C) Kshemendra D) Dhandi

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STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - July - 2019
(Conducted on 29/09/2019)

ANSWER KEYS
Published on 01/10/2019

English[19707-A]

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	B	81	C	101	B
2	B	22	A	42	C	62	C	82	A	102	B
3	D	23	A	43	B	63	B	83	C	103	C
4	C	24	B	44	B	64	B	84	B	104	B
5	A	25	A	45	C	65	C	85	D	105	D
6	B	26	B	46	B	66	D	86	D	106	A
7	B	27	C	47	A	67	A	87	B	107	C
8	D	28	B	48	C	68	B	88	B	108	C
9	A	29	C	49	B	69	C	89	A	109	C
10	C	30	B	50	A	70	C	90	B	110	D
11	B	31	A	51	D	71	B	91	D	111	A
12	D	32	B	52	D	72	A	92	A	112	C
13	C	33	B	53	B	73	C	93	B	113	B
14	D	34	A	54	A	74	B	94	A	114	C
15	D	35	C	55	A	75	D	95	D	115	B
16	B	36	A	56	A	76	B	96	D	116	B
17	A	37	B	57	A	77	D	97	A	117	B
18	D	38	B	58	D	78	B	98	A	118	C
19	C	39	B	59	C	79	A	99	B	119	C
20	A	40	C	60	A	80	A	100	D	120	C