LECTURER IN ENGLISH SOLVED PAPER 2015

LECTURER IN ENGLISH

EXAM DATE:27-10-2015
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1.First Governor of Kerala State:

A.C.Raja Gopalachari

B.Dr.A.R.Menon

C.B.Ramakrishna Rao*

D.Venkata Rao

Ans:C

2.The Indian Constitution has borrowed the idea of preamble from:

A.Constituion of Canada

B.British Constitution

C.French Constitution

D.Constitution of USA*

Ans:D

3.The 1^st Bank In India

A.Bank of Hindustan*

B.State Bank of India

C.Allahabad Bank

D.Nedungadi Bank

Ans:A

4.The person who won ‘Dadasaheb Phalke’award of 2014:

A.Adoor Gopalakrishnan

B.Shashi Kapoor*

C.Sayyid Misra

D.Gireesh Karnad

Ans:B

5.Telangana State is came into being existed on:

A.January 2014

B.May 2014

C.March 2014

D.June 2014*

Ans:D

6.Who was the founder of ‘Islamia  Public House’?

A.Vakkom Abdul Khadir Maulavi*

B.Ali Musaliyar

C.Muhammed Abdur Rahiman

D.Nazeem Sayyid

Ans:A

7.The Nair Service Society was founded in the year:

A.1903

B.1911

C.1914*

D.1918

Ans:C

8.The Madrass Governor who issued orders permitting Channar women to wear Jacket and Pinafore?

A.Lord Wellesley

B.Lord Haris*

C.Lord Macaulay

D.Colonel Monroe

Ans:B

9.Who was the Editor of the Newspaper ‘Desabhimani’?

A.T.K.Madhavan*

B.C.Krishnan

C.A.K.Pillai

D.K.Kelappan

Ans:A

10.’Varthamana Pustakam’the first travelogue in Malayalam was written by:

A.Herman Gundart

B.Jovannes Gonsalvez

C.Paremekkal Thomal Kathanar*

D.Baily

Ans:C

11.What aspect of the research report should be most concerned,When it is not peer reviewed?

A.The length of the report

B.The implications of the research

C.The quality of the research*

D.The authors sincerity

Ans:C

12.Which of the following is not a form of qualitative research?

A.Ethnography

B.Ex-post facto research*

C.Case study

D.Phenomenological inquiry

Ans:B

13.Who popularized action research?

A.John Lock

B.Ken Springer

C.Stephen M Corey*

D.Louis Cohen

Ans:C

14.Longitudinal studies investigate:

A.Different subjects over time

B.Different subjects at the same time

C.Same subjects at different levels

D.Same subjects over time*

Ans:D

15.A suggested explanation for something ,which has not been  proved to be true is:

A.Assumption*

B.Hypothesis

C.Concept

D.Delimitation

Ans:A

16.Assessment used to monitor learning progress during instruction:

A.Formative Assessment*

B.Summative Assessment

C.Prognostic assessment

D.CCE

Ans:A

17.What is meant by Retroactive inhibition?

A.Failure to recall newly learned things by the influence of early learning

B.Failure to assimilate new learning

C.Failure to recall earlier learning due to the interference of new learning*

D.Failure to adjust with the new learning by the interference of environment

Ans:C

18.’Drive Reduction Theroy of Learning ‘is formulated by:

A.Thorndike

B.Pavlov

C.Skinner

D.Hull*

Ans:D

19.Reinforcement is a major principle in:

A.Humanism

B.Psycho-analysis

C.Constructivism

D.Behaviourism*

Ans:D

20.The personality of teachers influence the personality of students through a process of:

A.Observation

B.Imitation

C.Psycho-osmosis*

D.Comparison

Ans:C

21.The minimum number of members prescribed for a Legislative Assembly under Article 170(1)of the Constitution of India is---------

A.Forty

B.Fifty

C.Sixty*

D.Seventy five

Ans:C

22.Article 21-A was introduced into the Constitution of India through------------

A.The Constitution (eighty-fifth Amendment)Act 2001

B.The Constitution(eighty-sixth Amendment)Act 2002*

C.The Constitution(eighty-seventh Amendment)Act 2003

D.The Constitution (eighty-eighth Amendment)Act 2003

Ans:B

23.The Supreme Court has held that National Awards like’Bharat Ratna’,’Padma Bhushan’,etc.are not’Titles’within the meaning of Article 18 in -------------

A.Balaji Raghavan v Union of India AIR 1996 SC 770*

B.Jaipal v State of Haryana AIR 1988 SC 1504

C.John Vallamattom v Union of India AIR  2003 SC 2902

D.Dharam Dutt v Union of India AIR 2004 SC 1295

Ans:A

24.------------of the Constitution of India directs the State to strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may,a social order in which justice,social economic and political,shall inform all the institutions of the National life.

A.Article 45

B.Article 37

C.Article 40

D.Article 38(1)*

Ans:D

25.The Constitution of India imposes a duty upon citizens to safeguard public property and to abjure from violence through---------------

A.Article 51-A(c)

B.Article 51-A(f)

C.Article 51-A(i)*

D.Article 51-A(j)

Ans:C

26.The Chief information Commissioner under The right to Information Act 2005 shall hold office for a term of-----------from the date of entering office,subject to a maximum age of 65 years.

A.Five years*

B.Six years

C.Ten years

D.Four years

Ans:A

27.Under Section 12(1)(b)of the Sexual Harassment of Women at workplace (Prevention,Prohibition and Redressal)Act 2013,during the pendency of an enquiry ,the committee on written request of the aggrieved woman,may recommend to the employer to grant her leave up to a period of------------

A.Three months*

B.Six months

C.One year

D.Two years
Ans:A

28.As per Section 4(1)(b) of The National Green Tribunal act 2010,The Tribunal shall consist of a maximum of ----------full time judicial members.

A.Five

B.Ten

C.Fifteen

D.Twenty*

Ans:D

29.As per Section 58,offences under the Biological Diversity Act 2002 shall be----------

A.Bailable

B.Non-cognizable

C.Cognizable and non-baliable*

D.Compoundable

Ans:C

30.Under Section 7(1)of The Mahatma Gandhi NREG Act 2005,if an applicant for employment under the scheme is not provided such employment within------------of receipt of his application seeking employment,he shall be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance.

A.Ten days

B.Fifteen days*

C.Thirty days

D.Sixty days

Ans:B

31.The return of which season is described in the opening of’The Prologue’to the Canterbury Tales?

A.Autumn

B.Summer

C.Spring*

D.Winter

Ans:C

32.The pilgrims in ‘The Prologue’to the Canterbury Tales represent a cross section of----------English society

A.Twelfth Century

B.Thirteenth Century

C.Fourteenth Century*

D.Fifteenth Century

Ans:C

33.The two beautiful maidens in’Prothalamion’are the daughters of---------

A.The Earl of Lancaster

B.The Earl of Worcester*

C.The Earl of Leicester

A.Lord Burghley

Ans:B

34./To this I witness call the fools of Time/Which die for goodness who have lived for crime/These lines are from Shakespeare’s Sonnet--------------

A.Eighteen

B.Twenty Nine

C.Fifty Seven

D.One Hundred And Twenty Four*

Ans:D

35.The number of lines in Donne’s “A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning”is-------

A.Eighteen

B.Thirty Six*

C.Fourteen

D.Thirty Two

Ans:B

36.The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

The lowing  herd wind slowly o’er the lea

These lines are from a poem by:

A.Shakespeare

B.Thomas Gray*

C.John Dryden

D.Alexander Pope

Ans:B

37.According to Francis Bacon,the Chief use for ornament in studies is in-------

A.Privateness

B.Retiring

C.Discourse*

D.Judgement

Ans:C

38.The servant of Faustus who uses his master’s books to learn how to summon devils:

A.Wagner*

B.Robin

C.Rafe

D.Cornelius

Ans:A

39.The University where Hamlet studied:

A.Wittenberg*

B.Oxford

C.Cambridge

D.Constantinople

Ans:A

40.Crabtree is a character in:

A.The Tempest

B.The Rivals

C.The Way of the World

D.The School for Scandal*

Ans:D

41.”The Tiger”is-----------stanzas in length.

A.Four

B.Six*

C.Eight

D.Nine

Ans:B

42.”Ode on intimations of immortality”recollects----------

A.Old age

B.Childhood

C.Middle age

D.Early Childhood*

Ans:D

43.If Winter comes,can spring be far behind?Who wrote this line?

A.Wordsworth

B.Coleridge

C.Shelly*

D.Keats

Ans:C

44.Each Stanza of”Ode on a Grecian Urn”consists of------------lines.

A.Four

B.Six

C.Eight

D.Ten*

Ans:D

45.”Ulysses”is a poem written in--------

A.Free verse

B.Blank verse*

C.Rhymed verse

D.Trochee

Ans:B

46.The poem “My last duchess”is set during the late----------

A.French Renaissance

B.British Renaissance

C.Spanish Renaissance

D.Italian Renaissance*

Ans:D

47.Which sea is mentioned in connection with Sophocles in “Dover Beach”?

A.English Channel

B.Red Sea

C.Aegean Sea*

D.Strait of Dover

Ans:C

48.Essays of Elia collection of essays written by-------------

A.Dryden

B.Charles Lamb*

C.J.S.Mill

D.E.V.Lucas

Ans:B

49.How many daughters Mrs. And Mr.Bennet have in Pride and Prejudice?

A.Five*

B.Six

C.Three

D.Four

Ans:A

50.The alternate title of Oliver Twist is:

A. A Rake’s Progress

B.The Orphan’s Progress

C.A Kid’s Progress

D.The Parish Boy’s Progress*

Ans:D

51.What was the first title of W.B.yeats’s”The Second Coming”>

A.The Second Birth*

B.The Apocalypse Gyre

C.The Rebirth

D.The Widening

Ans:A

52.The title of the third section of Eliot’s The Waste Land is-------------

A.A Game of Chess

B.Death by water

C.The Burial of the Dead

D.The Fire Sermon*

Ans:D

53.The meaning of the word “Simples”in Church Going”:

A.Herbs*

B.Irish coins

C.Stones

D.Article

Ans:A

54.Which King opposed Thomas Becket?

A.Henry II*

B.Henry IV

C.Henry VI

D.Henry VIII

Ans:A

55.IN Pygmalion,Henry Higgins was professor of-----------------

A.Linguistics

B.Literature

C.Grammar

D.Phonetics*

Ans:D

56.Which is the subtitle of the English version of Waiting for Godot?

A.A comedy in two acts

B. A tragedy in two acts

C.A comedy

D.A tragicomedy in two acts*

Ans:D

57.Stanley Webber was a former-------in the Birthday Party.

A.Drum Player

B.Piano Player*

C.Organ player

D.Opera Singer

Ans:B

58.What is the name of Stephen Dedalu’s father?

A.Simon*

B.Charles

C.Cranly

D.Henry

Ans:A

59.When did Paul Morel become his mother’s favourite?

A.After his birth

B.After his affair with Clara

C.After the birth of Arthur

D.After the death of William*

Ans:D

60.The young painter who begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay :

A.Minta

B.Mrs.McNab

C.Lily*

D.Cam

Ans:C

61.”Theory of Rasa”is taken from-----------

A.Atharvaveda

B.Natyasastra*

C.Upanishad

D.Dhammapada

Ans:B

62.Aristotle’s Poetics is specifically concerned with-----------

A.Tragedy

B.Comedy

C.Drama*

D.Epic

Ans:C

63.”On the Sublime”was written by

A.Plato

B.Aristotle

C.Longinus*

D.Horace

Ans:C

64.According to Dr.Johnson,”Shakespeare is above all writers.at least above all modern writers,the poet of---------

A.Mankind

B.Divinity

C.Love

D.Nature*

Ans:D

65.”Willing suspension of disbelief”figures in------------

A.Preface to the Fables

B.Study of Poetry

C.Preface to the Lyrical ballads

D.Biographia Literaria*

Ans:D

66.Who authored Anatomy of Criticism?

A.Northrop Frye*

B.Matthew Arnold

C.T.S.Eliot

D.Cleanth Brooks

Ans:A

67.According to Viktor Shklovsky,the technique of art is to make objects:

A.Familiar

B.Unfamiliar*

C.Habitual

D.Aesthetic

Ans:B

68.In Classical thought the centre is within the structure and outside it because ,according to Derrida,the centre escapes

A.Episteme

B.Play

C.Rupture

D.Structurality*

Ans:D

69.In”What is an author?”,Foucault considers___________as characteristic of the mode of existence,circulation and functioning of certain discourses within a society and he analyses it elaborately

A.Author

B.Authorship

C.Author-function*

D.Ownership

Ans:C

70.Who can write Dalit literature,according to Sharankumar Limbale?

A.A Dalit*

B.Any writer

C.A Varna

D.An Avarna

Ans:A

71.In philology,Grimm’s law

Gives systematic statements on:

A.Sound change*

B.Vowels

C.Consonants

D.Allophones

Ans:A

72.Old English is also known as:

A.Celtic

B.Teutonic

C.Gaelic

D.Anglo-Saxon*

Ans:D

73.In which dialect was Beowulf written?

A.Wessex*

B.Sussex

C.Manx

D.Angles

Ans:A

74.The Norman Conquest of England took place in---------------Century

A.9^th

B.10^th

C.11^th *

D.12^th

Ans:C

75.Through the Great Vowel Shift,all Middle English----------changed their pronunciation.

A.Long vowels*

B.Short vowels

C.Semi vowels

D.Diphthongs

Ans:A

76.How many second person personal pronouns were in Early Modern English?

A.One

B.Two*

C.Three

D.Five

Ans:B

77.How many varieties of English are in use globally?

A.Two

B.Three

C.Four

D.Many*

Ans:D

78.Bloomfield is connected with ------------------

A.Semantics

B.Traditional Grammar

C.American Structuralism*

D.Prague School

Ans:C

79.TG Grammar is associated with:

A.Sapir

B.Chomsky*

C.Saussure

D.Firth

Ans:B

80.Creole is----------

A.A combination of many  languages

B.A language developed from Pidgin*

C.A variety of English

D.A combination of two languages

Ans:B

81.Gitanjali was originally written in----------

A.English

B.Sanskrit

C.Bengali*

D.Hindi

Ans:C

82.Sri Aurobindo’s full name is----------

A.Aurobindo Ghose*

B.Aurobindo Dhun

C.Aurobindo Krishna

D.Aravind Ghosh

Ans:A

83.In”Poet,Lover,Bird Watcher”,the best poets wait for---------

A.Experience

B.Images

C.Love

D.Words*

Ans:D

84.In”Road not Taken”,two roads diverged in a---------

A.Green forest

B.Yellow wood*

C.A green Meadow

D.A dark wood

Ans:B

85.Which ocean is mentioned in “Daddy”?

A.Indian

B.Pacific

C.Atlantic*

D.Arctic

Ans:C

86.Who wrote”Philosophy of Hinduism”?

A.Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

B.Dr.B.R.Ambedkar*

C.M.K.Gandhi

D.Sri.Aurobindo

Ans:B

87.Emerson,in”Self Reliane”calls upon the individual to rely on:

A.Intuition

B.Conscience*

C.Reason

D.Popular Opinion

Ans:B

88.The rebels believed that emperor Jones could be killed only by a:

A.Silver bullet*

B.Copper bullet

C.Poisoned arrow

D.White man

Ans:A

89.In Midnight’s Children,Saleem Sinai was held as a political prisoner during--------------

A.Independence struggle

B.Partition of India

C.15 August,1947

D.Emergency*

Ans:D

90.Manjula Padmanabhan’s The harvest is a play that can be termed as:

A.Expressionistic

B.Dadaist

C.Futuristic*

D.Surrealisitc

Ans:C

91.One of the following is considered a seminar text in post Colonial Studies:

A.The Laugh of the Medusa

B.The Anxiety of Influence*

C.The Wretched of the Earth

D.The Step Mother Tongue

Ans:B

92.In relation to imperialism,colonialism specifically concerns----------

A.Trade

B.Conquest

C.Exploitation

D.Settlement*

Ans:D

93.Raymond Williams is associated with:

A.Prague School

B.Birmingham Centre*

C.Frankfurt School

D.London School

Ans:B

94.Dick Hebdige terms the new forms of cultures produced by marginalized groups-----------------

A.Popular cultures

B.Sub cultures*

C.Minor cultures

D.Low cultures

Ans:B

95.According to Baudrillard,’hyperreal’is:

A.Really that is not true

B.Copies of the real without origin*

C.Signs that are abstract

D.the virtual world

Ans:B

96.Stephen Greenblatt is a-------------

A.New Historocist*

B.Post Feminist

C.Queer Theorist

D.Cultural Materialist

Ans:A

97.Epistemology of the Closet,a significant contribution to queer theory is authored by-------------

A.Kate Millett

B.Julia Kristeva

C.Juliet Mitchell*

D.Eve K Sefgwick

Ans:C

98.Cyber feminists consider cyber culture as-----------

A.Revolutionary*

B.Reactionary

C.Antifeminist

D.Imperial

Ans:A

99.The structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is written by:

A.Hegel

B.Lyotard

C.Habermas*

D.Jameson

Ans:C

100.Glotfelty defines ecocriticism as “the study of the relationship between literature and -------------“.

A.Nature

B.Flora  and fauna

C.Ecology

D.Physical environment*

Ans:D

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