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PSC HSST English NCA Model Questions and Answers

76
Words in English will have either primary or secondary stress on ..............
Answer
D. The first or the second syllable
77
Chomsky's concept about structural properties common to all languages is called ...............
Answer
C. Universal Grammar
78
Transformational Generative Grammar is so called because ..................
Answer
B. It accounts for the transformations of sentences and generates sentences from given patterns
79
The variety of language used in particular discourses or professions is called a ...............
Answer
A. Register
80
The rule which accounts for the presence and pronunciation of the past tense morpheme in English is called a ............. rule
Answer
D. morphophonemic
81
Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year
Answer
C. 1913
82
Who said "The best poet waits for words."
Answer
A. Nissim Ezekiel
83
"Blow!Blow!Blow! Blow up sea-wind along Paumanok's shore; I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me" Identify the poem
Answer
C. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
84
Name of the native chief in Emperor Jones is ...............
Answer
D. Lem
85
Who said this in The Glass Menagerie
"All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be."
Answer
A. Amanda
86
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes.One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune." The above quote is from ............
Answer
C. The Sound and the Fury
87
Pecola Breedlove is repeatedly called by nearly everyone in her life.
Answer
B. ugly
88
Who said "Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide" ?
Answer
B. Emerson
89
Who among the following is not a playwright?
Answer
D. Amit Chaudhuri
90
Judith Wright is from
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A. Australia
91
Hetronormativity asserts
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B. Sexual relationship between man and woman
92
Occident denotes
Answer
B. Countries of the West
93
............... is the cultural logic of late capitalism
Answer
A. Postmodernism
94
Who said, "If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed hetrosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that hetrosexuality issues form a disappointed homosexuality?"
Answer
C. Judith Butler
95
Who is the author of the essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Answer
D. Gayatri Spivak
96
Historiographic metafiction is a term coined by
Answer
A. Linda Hutcheon
97
The Location of Culture by Homi K. Baba deals with the theoretical development of
Answer
D. Hybridity
98
Humour that leads to horror is called
Answer
B. black humour
99
Desirable Daughters is a novel written by
Answer
C. Bharathi Mukerjee
100
Which postmodern writer used the theory of entropy in his novels?
Answer
B. Thomas Pynchon

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