PSC HSST English Junior Model Questions and Answers: Part 3

51. Who is Lil’s husband in the poem The Waste Land?
(A) Alfred
(B) Albert
(C) Araon
(D) Arnold
Answer: B

52. “It was my ………… year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron
Priested shore .”
Fill the blank.
(A) Twentieth
(B) Fortieth
(C) Fiftieth
(D) Thirtieth
Answer: D

53. Identify the writer of the following :
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Elaine Showalter
(D) Virginia Woolf
Answer: D

54. Who acts as chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
(A) Canterbury Women
(B) Cathedral Women
(C) The Archbishop
(D) The Knights
Answer: A

55. Pygmalion fell in love with …………..
(A) His disciple
(B) His slave
(C) A statue carved by him
(D) a Princess
Answer: C

56. The clothes that the priest brings to Maurya’s house are from the body of ………….
(A) Bartley
(B) Shawn
(C) Sheamus
(D) Michael
Answer: D

57. “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named ……………”
(A) baby kochamma
(B) baby tristy
(C) baby tuckoo
(D) baby daedalus
Answer: C

58. Who is the owner of the factory where Paul Morel works?
(A) Baxter Dawes
(B) John Field
(C) Jerry Purde
(D) Thomas Jordan
Answer: D

59. The twins in the Lord of the Flies are together known as
(A) Samneric
(B) Buffaloes
(C) Ralphjacy
(D) The flies
Answer: A

60. Which year did Doris Lessing win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(A) 2007
(B) 2006
(C) 1997
(D) 1996
Answer: A

61. The key textbook of the emotional theory of Rasa.
(A) Sangitadarpana
(B) Dharmasutra
(C) Padyachudamani
(D) Natyashastra
Answer: D

62. According to Aristotle, Hamartia is …………
(A) a moral failing of the protagonist
(B) a personal error in a protagonist’s personality that brings about his tragic downfall
(C) a sudden change in fortune
(D) an incident which leads to the protagonist’s death
Answer: B

63. “Lyrical Ballads” was published with a preface in the year …………..
(A) 1789
(B) 1850
(C) 1798
(D) 1800
Answer: D

64. In his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” Eliot describes the process of poetic creation in terms of an analogy of ………….
(A) a chain reaction
(B) divine inspiration
(C) a chemical reaction
(D) organic growth
Answer: C

65. “Archetype” means …………..
(A) an original idea or model on which something is patterned
(B) a myth
(C) an original story behind a myth
(D) the structure of a literary work
Answer: A

66. Jacques Derrida’s lecture “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” heralded the beginning of ……………
(A) Structuralism
(B) Cultural Materialism
(C) Post-structuralism
(D) Post-feminism
Answer: C

67. The second phase in the history of women’s literature as discussed by Elaine Showalter in her essay “Towards a Feminist Poetics.”
(A) The Feminist phase
(B) The Feminine phase
(C) The Female phase
(D) None of these
Answer: A

68. Michael Foucault’s essay discussing the notion of the ‘author’.
(A) The Death of the Author
(B) What Is an Author?
(C) On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity
(D) The Author in Court
Answer: B

69. Lacan’s concept of the “mirror stage” is related to ……………
(A) the stage in which the child symbolically connects ideas, emotions etc.
(B) the stage in which the child has no notion of the individual self
(C) the stage in which the child begins to speak
(D) a critical stage in the development of individuality during a child’s growth
Answer: D

70. The author of the book “Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature”.
(A) Sharankumar Limbala
(B) Omprakash Valmiki
(C) Bama
(D) Kancha Ilaiah
Answer: A

71. English language is derived from …………..
(A) West Germanic
(B) East Germanic
(C) North Germanic
(D) None of these
Answer: A

72. A systematic variation of vowels in the same root or in related roots or affixes in the Indo-European languages that is usually paralleled by differences in use or meaning.
(A) Anacoluthon
(B) Diacritic
(C) Ablaut
(D) Umlaut
Answer: C

73. The author of “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People”.
(A) Alfred
(B) Caedmon
(C) Boethius
(D) Bede
Answer: D

74. The Norman conquest of England began with the invasion of England by ……….. in 1066.
(A) King Canute
(B) King Haokon VI
(C) William the Conqueror
(D) Prince Carl
Answer: C

75. King James’ Authorized version of the Bible was published in the year ………….
(A) 1511
(B) 1611
(C) 1711
(D) 1811
Answer: B