PSC HSST English Junior Model Questions and Answers: Part 3

26. Who was the first Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission?
(A) Justice A. S. Anand.
(B) Justice Ranganath Misra.
(C) Justice Hidayatullah.
(D) Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer.
Answer: B

27. Which one of the following statutes provides for the establishment of a National Tribunal for the effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests resources?
(A) The National Green Tribunal Act,2010.
(B) The Environment Protection Act,1986.
(C) The National Environment Appellate Authority Act,1997.
(D) The National Environment Tribunal Act,1995.
Answer: A

28. If information sought under The Right to Information Act,2005 concerns the life or liberty of a person, it shall be supplied within …………………..
(A) 12 hours.
(B) 24 hours.
(C) 48 hours.
(D) none of the above.
Answer: C

29. Which one of the following is a National mission on financial inclusion for ensuring access to various financial services to all households in the country?
(A) PMJDY
(B) PMRY
(C) PMRDFS
(D) PMGSY
Answer: A

30. The Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 deals with ………………….
(A) Juveniles in conflict with law.
(B) Children in need of care.
(C) Children in need of protection.
(D) All of the above.
Answer: D

31. What is the relationship between the Squire and the Knight in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales?
(A) Two unrelated pilgrims
(B) A pilgrim and the innkeeper
(C) Father and son
(D) Son and father
Answer: D

32. Shakespeare’s Sonnet number 129 is addressed to
(A) Earl of Southampton
(B) Thomas Thorpe
(C) A Dark Lady
(D) Earl of Pembroke
Answer: C

33. What is the predominant feeling of Satan as reflected in (The Paradise Lost) the quoted lines?
“Determined to advance into our room
A creature formed of earth,…”
(A) Man has usurped his place
(B) He would compass the fall of man
(C) He is going to assert his supremacy
(D) He is to affirm his sovereignty
Answer: A

34. How many years Faustus has before the Devil comes to claim him his own?
(A) 25
(B) 23
(C) 26
(D) 24
Answer: D

35. Which one of the following is NOT a character in the ‘Tempest’?
(A) Miranda
(B) Coriolanus
(C) Ariel
(D) Alonso
Answer: B

36. To which Scene in ‘The Hamlet’ the line “To be or not to be, that is the question” belong?
(A) Act III Scene 1
(B) Act III Scene 2
(C) Act III Scene 3
(D) Act III Scene 4
Answer: A

37. “Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song” is extracted from:
(A) Epithalamion
(B) Mac Flecknoe
(C) Prothalamion
(D) ‘Atticus Passage’
Answer: C

38. Whom did the Dutchess of Malfi secretly marry?
(A) Bosola
(B) Antonio Bologna
(C) Roderigo
(D) Ferdinand
Answer: B

39. Which of the following characters is the villain in ‘Tom Jones’?
(A) Blifil
(B) Square
(C) Thwackaum
(D) Allworthy
Answer: A

40. “What is the truth? Said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer” (Of Truth)
The line is an example for:
(A) Grand style
(B) Blank verse
(C) Aphoristic style
(D) Biblical style
Answer: C

41. “Did he who made the Lamb make thee”? here “thee” refers to?
(A) Stars
(B) The Tiger
(C) Sky
(D) Forest
Answer: B

42. To whom “Dejection: An Ode” was originally addressed?
(A) Dorothy Wordsworth
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) David Hartley
(D) Sara Hutchinson
Answer: D

43. What does Wordsworth’s line “Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears” reflect?
(A) Loss of the sense of joy in nature
(B) Memories of the joyous things in nature
(C) Pessimism
(D) Dejection
Answer: B

44. Which of the following is NOT an essential theme of ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’?
(A) Materialism
(B) Timelessness
(C) Themes of art, death and life
(D) Permanence of art as opposed to transient life
Answer: A

45. Which of the following is the prominent idea in the “Dover Beach”?
(A) Love
(B) Beauty
(C) Loss of faith
(D) Romantic view of life
Answer: C

46. Which English society is portrayed in Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’?
(A) All the English society
(B) Middle class
(C) Commons
(D) The upper class
Answer: D

47. What was the initial/original title of the “Pride and Prejudice”?
(A) Sense and Sensibility
(B) First Impressions
(C) Mansfield Park
(D) Emma
Answer: B

48. What is the pen name of ‘Mary Ann Evans’?
(A) George Eliot
(B) T. S. Eliot
(C) Emily Bronte
(D) Charlotte Bronte
Answer: A

49. Why did Heath Cliff slip away? Because:
(A) Hindley bullied him
(B) He was a foundling
(C) Isabella refused to marry him
(D) Catherine refused to marry him
Answer: D

50. Who according to Charles Lamb (in the Dream Children) was the best dancer during her youth?
(A) Alice, the daughter
(B) Alice, the mother
(C) Mrs. Field
(D) Bridget
Answer: C