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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
Answer: C
2. The Indian Constitution has borrowed the idea of preamble from :
(A) Constitution of Canada
(B) British Constitution
(C) French Constitution
(D) Constitution of USA
Answer: D
3. The 1st Bank in India :
(A) Bank of Hindustan
(B) State Bank of India
(C) Allahabad Bank
(D) Nedungadi Bank
Answer: A
4. The person who won ‘Dadasaheb Phalke’ award of 2014 :
(A) Adoor Gopalakrishnan
(B) Shashi Kapoor
(C) Sayyid Misra
(D) Gireesh Karnad
Answer: B
5. Telangana State is came into being existed on :
(A) January 2014
(B) May 2014
(C) March 2014
(D) June 2014
Answer: 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
Answer:-Question Cancelled
7. The Nair Service Society was founded in the year :
(A) 1903
(B) 1911
(C) 1914
(D) 1918
Answer: 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
Answer:-Question Cancelled
9. Who was the Editor of the Newspaper ‘Desabhimani’ ?
(A) T.K. Madhavan
(B) C. Krishnan
(C) A.K. Pillai
(D) K. Kelappan
Answer: A
10. ‘Varthamana Pustakam’ the first travelogue in Malayalam was written by :
(A) Herman Gundart
(B) Jovannes Gonsalvez
(C) Paremekkal Thoma Kathanar
(D) Baily
Answer: 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 What aspect of the research report should be most concerned, when it is not peer reviewed ?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
Answer: 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
Answer: B
13. Who popularized action research?
(A) John Lock
(B) Ken Springer
(C) Stephen M Corey
(D) Louis Cohen
Answer: 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
Answer: D
15. A suggested explanation for something, which has not been proved to be true is :
(A) Assumption
(B) Hypothesis
(C) Concept
(D) Delimitation
Answer:-Question Cancelled
16. Assessment used to monitor learning progress during instruction :
(A) Formative assessment
(B) Summative assessment
(C) Prognostic assessment
(D) CCE
Answer: A
17. What is meant by Retro-active 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
Answer: C
18. ‘Drive Reduction Theory of Learning’ is formulated by :
(A) Thorndike
(B) Pavlov
(C) Skinner
(D) Hull
Answer: D
19. Reinforcement is a major principle in :
(A) Humanism
(B) Psycho-analysis
(C) Constructivism
(D) Behaviourism
Answer: D
20. The personality of teachers influence the personality of students through a process of:
(A) Observation
(B) Imitation
(C) Psycho-osmosis
(D) Comparison
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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)
Answer: 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)
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: D
29. As per Section 58, offences under The Biological Diversity Act 2002 shall be ……………
(A) Bailable
(B) Non-cognizable
(C) Cognizable and non-bailable
(D) Compoundable
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
(D) Lord Burghley
Answer: 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
Answer: D
35. The number of lines in Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” is ……………
(A) Eighteen
(B) Thirty Six
(C) Fourteen
(D) Thirty Two
Answer: 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
Answer: B
37. According to Francis Bacon, the chief use for ornament in studies is in ……………
(A) privateness
(B) retiring
(C) discourse
(D) judgement
Answer: 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
Answer: A
39. The University where Hamlet studied :
(A) Wittenberg
(B) Oxford
(C) Cambridge
(D) Constantinople
Answer: A
40. Crabtree is a character in :
(A) The Tempest
(B) The Rivals
(C) The Way of the World
(D) The School for Scandal
Answer: D
41. “The Tiger” is ……………. stanzas in length.
(A) four
(B) six
(C) eight
(D) nine
Answer: B
42. “Ode on Intimations of Immortality” recollects ……………
(A) Old age
(B) Childhood
(C) Middle age
(D) Early Childhood
Answer: D
43. If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?
Who wrote this line ?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Shelly
(D) Keats
Answer: C
44. Each stanza of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” consists of ………….. lines.
(A) four
(B) six
(C) eight
(D) ten
Answer: D
45. “Ulysses” is a poem written in ……………
(A) Free verse
(B) Blank verse
(C) Rhymed verse
(D) Trochee
Answer: B
46. The poem “My Last Duchess” is set during the late …………….
(A) French Renaissance
(B) British Renaissance
(C) Spanish Renaissance
(D) Italian Renaissance
Answer: 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
Answer: C
48. Essays of Elia is collection of essays written by ………………..
(A) Dryden
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) J.S. Mill
(D) E.V. Lucas
Answer: B
49. How many daughters Mrs. and Mr. Bennet have in Pride and Prejudice?
(A) five
(B) six
(C) three
(D) four
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: D
53. The meaning of the word “simples” in “Church Going” :
(A) Herbs
(B) Irish coins
(C) Stones
(D) Articles
Answer: A
54. Which King opposed Thomas Becket ?
(A) Henry II
(B) Henry IV
(C) Henry VI
(D) Henry VIII
Answer: A
55. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins was professor of ………………
(A) Linguistics
(B) Literature
(C) Grammar
(D) Phonetics
Answer: 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
Answer: D
57. Stanley Webber was a former ……………. in The Birthday Party.
(A) Drum Player
(B) Piano Player
(C) Organ Player
(D) Opera Singer
Answer: B
58. What is the name of Stephen Dedalus’s father ?
(A) Simon
(B) Charles
(C) Cranly
(D) Henry
Answer: 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
Answer: D
60. The young painter who begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay :
(A) Minta
(B) Mrs. McNab
(C) Lily
(D) Cam
Answer: C
61. “Theory of Rasa” is taken from …………….
(A) Atharvaveda
(B) Natyasastra
(C) Upanishad
(D) Dhammapada
Answer: B
62. Aristotle’s Poetics is specifically concerned with …………….
(A) tragedy
(B) comedy
(C) drama
(D) epic
Answer: C
63. “On the Sublime” was written by :
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Longinus
(D) Horace
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: D
66. Who authored Anatomy of Criticism ?
(A) Northrop Frye
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) T.S. Eliot
(D) Cleanth Brooks
Answer: A
67. According to Viktor Shklovsky, the technique of art is to make objects :
(A) familiar
(B) unfamiliar
(C) habitual
(D) aesthetic
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: C
70. Who can write Dalit literature, according to Sharankumar Limbale ?
(A) a Dalit
(B) any writer
(C) a varna
(D) an avarna
Answer: A
71. In philology, Grimm’s law gives systematic statements on :
(A) Sound change
(B) Vowels
(C) Consonants
(D) Allophones
Answer: A
72. Old English is also known as :
(A) Celtic
(B) Teutonic
(C) Gaelic
(D) Anglo-Saxon
Answer: D
73. In which dialect was Beowulf written ?
(A) Wessex
(B) Sussex
(C) Manx
(D) Angles
Answer:-Question Cancelled
74. The Norman Conquest of England took place in ……………… Century.
(A) 9th
(B) 10th
(C) 11th
(D) 12th
Answer: C
75. Through the Great Vowel Shift, all Middle English …………….. changed their pronunciation.
(A) long vowels
(B) short vowels
(C) semi vowels
(D) diphthongs
Answer: A
76. How many second person personal pronouns were in Early Modern English ?
(A) one
(B) two
(C) three
(D) five
Answer: B
77. How many varieties of English are in use globally ?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Many
Answer: D
78. Bloomfield is connected with ……………..
(A) Semantics
(B) Traditional Grammar
(C) American Structuralism
(D) Prague School
Answer: C
79. TG Grammar is associated with :
(A) Sapir
(B) Chomsky
(C) Saussure
(D) Firth
Answer: 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
Answer: B
81. Gitanjali was originally written in
(A) English
(B) Sanskrit
(C) Bengali
(D) Hindi
Answer: C
82. Sri Aurobindo’s full name is …………….
(A) Aurobindo Ghose
(B) Aurobindo Dhun
(C) Aurobindo Krishna
(D) Aravind Ghosh
Answer: A
83. In “Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher”, the best poets wait for ……………..
(A) Experience
(B) Images
(C) Love
(D) Words
Answer: 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
Answer: B
85. Which ocean is mentioned in “Daddy” ?
(A) Indian
(B) Pacific
(C) Atlantic
(D) Arctic
Answer: C
86. Who wrote “Philosophy of Hinduism” ?
(A) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
(B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(C) M.K. Gandhi
(D) Sri Aurobindo
Answer: B
87. Emerson, in “Self Reliance” calls upon the individual to rely on :
(A) intuition
(B) conscience
(C) reason
(D) popular opinion
Answer: A
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
Answer: 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
Answer: D
90. Manjula Padmanabhan’s The Harvest is a play that can be termed as :
(A) Expressionistic
(B) Dadaist
(C) Futuristic
(D) Surrealistic
Answer: C
91. One of the following is considered a seminal 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
Answer: C
92. In relation to imperialism, colonialism specifically concerns …………….
(A) trade
(B) conquest
(C) exploitation
(D) settlement
Answer: D
93. Raymond Williams is associated with :
(A) Prague School
(B) Birmingham Centre
(C) Frankfurt School
(D) London School
Answer: 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
Answer: B
95. According to Baudrillard, ‘hyperreal’ is :
(A) Reality that is not true
(B) Copies of the real without origin
(C) Signs that are abstract
(D) The virtual world
Answer:-Question Cancelled
96. Stephen Greenblatt is a ………………..
(A) New Historicist
(B) Post Feminist
(C) Queer Theorist
(D) Cultural Materialist
Answer: 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 Sedgwick
Answer: D
98. Cyber feminists consider cyber culture as …………………
(A) revolutionary
(B) reactionary
(C) antifeminist
(D) imperial
Answer: A
99. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is written by :
(A) Hegel
(B) Lyotard
(C) Habermas
(D) Jameson
Answer: 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
Answer: D
