PSC HSST English NCA Model Questions and Answers

26. Child Welfare Committees (CWC) are established under …………
(A) Juvenile Justice Act
(B) Child Welfare Act
(C) Factories Act
(D) Child Labour Prohibition Act
Answer: A

27. National Green Tribunal is established in the year ……..
(A) 2008
(B) 2009
(C) 2010
(D) 2011
Answer: C

28. Central Information Commission or State Information Commission may impose penalty on a Public Information Officer (PIO) who refused to act as per the requirement of Right to Information Act. What is the maximum penalty that can be imposed on such a PIO?
(A) Rs. 10,000/
(B) Rs. 15,000/-
(C) Rs. 20,000/-
(D) Rs. 25,000/-
Answer: D

29. Time Limit Prescribed Under Right to Service Act for issuance of Income Certificate from Village Office or Taluk Office is ……….
(A) Three days
(B) Six Days
(C) Seven Days
(D) 15 Days
Answer: B

30. …………. in every eligible household, shall be head of the household for the purpose of issue of ration cards Under the National Food Security Act, 2013.
(A) Eldest Male Member who is above 18 years of age.
(B) Eldest earning member of the household
(C) Eldest woman who is not less than 18 years of age
(D) Eldest male member of any age
Answer: C

31. The companion poem to Spenser’s “Prothalamion.”
(A) Amoretti
(B) Epithalamion
(C) Prosopopoia
(D) Babel
Answer: B

32. In which of these plays does death, decay and disease appear as the central motif?
(A) The Winter’s Tale
(B) The Tempest
(C) Julius Caesar
(D) Hamlet
Answer: D

33. Identify the figure of speech in the line “No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;”
(A) hyperbole
(B) metaphysical conceit
(C) personification
(D) synecdoche
Answer: A

34. Shakespeare’s sonnets were first published in the year …………..
(A) 1600
(B) 1606
(C) 1609
(D) 1619
Answer: C

35. Bosola is a character in the play ………….
(A) The Duchess of Malfi
(B) The Way of the World
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) The White Devil
Answer: A

36. The mythological character to whom Dr Faustus is compared to in the prologue to Marlowe’s play “Dr Faustus.”
(A) Daedalus
(B) Apollo
(C) Theseus
(D) Icarus
Answer: D

37. Who applied the epithet “Augustan” for the first time?
(A) John Dryden
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) Dr Samuel Johnson
(D) Ben Jonson
Answer: C

38. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is a collection of ……………. tales narrated by a group of pilgrims.
(A) 22
(B) 24
(C) 26
(D) 28
Answer: B

39. Who defined the novel as “a comic epic in prose”?
(A) Laurence Sterne
(B) Samuel Richardson
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Daniel Defoe
Answer: C

40. What happens to Adan and Eve immediately after they eat the forbidden fruit in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” Book IX?
(A) they feel guilty
(B) they are consumed by lust
(C) they are banished from the Garden of Eden by God
(D) they blame Satan for their fall
Answer: B

41. The Romantic poet noted for the use of a persistent and sustained symbolism in his poetry.
(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) Lord Byron
(C) William Blake
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: C

42. Which poem of Keats has the line, “For-ever wilt thou love, and she be fair”?
(A) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(B) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(C) A Party of Lovers
(D) Endymion
Answer: B

43. The leading figure among the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists.
(A) Elizabeth Barret Browning
(B) D. G. Rossetti
(C) G. M. Hopkins
(D) Matthew Arnold
Answer: B

44. The name of Algernon’s imaginary invalid friend in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
(A) Bunbury
(B) Jack Worthing
(C) Sir Thomas Cardew
(D) Dr Frederick
Answer: A

45. Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist” was published in the year ……………
(A) 1859
(B) 1850
(C) 1838
(D) 1860
Answer: C

46. J. S. Mill’s “The Subjugation of Women” was influenced by the …………. philosophy.
(A) Moral
(B) Naturalistic
(C) Idealistic
(D) Utilitarian
Answer: D

47. G. M. Hopkins’ “The Windhover” is a ……………
(A) Petrarchan sonnet
(B) Shakespearean sonnet
(C) Spenserian sonnet
(D) Horatian Ode
Answer: A

48. Charles Lamb published his letters and essays under the pseudonym Elia in ………….
(A) The Westminster Review
(B) Birmingham Journal
(C) The London Review
(D) The London Magazine
Answer: D

49. The literal meaning of the word “wuthering.”
(A) hilly place
(B) marshy place
(C) cold weather
(D) turbulent weather
Answer: D

50. Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” expresses …………….
(A) Victorian optimism
(B) spirit of anarchy
(C) pessimistic philosophy
(D) metaphysical outlook
Answer: A