Kerala SET 2019 Feb Question Paper English

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19207 120 MINUTES
1. How many pilgrims, according to Chaucer, were part of the company that arrived at
the Tabard as he lay there?
A) 27 B) 28 C) 29 D) 30

2. Who was the first to print The Canterbury Tales?
A) John Gower B) John Lydgate
C) Robert Large D) William Caxton

3. Prothalamion can be considered ‘a ------song’:
A) nuptial B) nubile C) marischal D) martial

4. The main collaborator of John Webster, the Jacobean writer, was:
A) Thomas Dekker B) Thomas Middleton
C) John Fletcher D) John Ford

5. The theatre in which Shakespeare is said to have had a proprietary interest:
A) Red Lion B) Red Bull C) Theatre D) Globe

6. Shakespeare relied on the translation of Plutarch’s Lives by:
A) Sir Thomas Lucy B) Sir Thomas More
C) Sir Thomas North D) Sir Thomas Brown

7. The first published edition of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623 is called the
first:
A) Folio B) Quarto C) Octavo D) Demi-octavo

8. “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love” is the opening line of:
A) The Beatification B) The Canonization
C) The Betrothal D) The Resurrection

9. The ‘greater Man’ referred to at the beginning of Paradise Lost is:
A) Adam B) Eve C) Satan D) Christ

10. Mr Pinchwife is the jealous husband in:
A) Man of Mode B) The Old Batchelour
C) The Country Wife D) The Way of the World

11. The Tatler was launched in 1709 by:
A) Richard Steele B) Joseph Addison
C) James Boswell D) Samuel Pepys

12. Mac Flecknoe is a lampoon on:
A) Colley Cibber B) Thomas Shadwell
C) Ben Jonson D) Dr Johnson

13. Wordsworth has said that poetry is the ‘spontaneous overflow’ of powerful:
A) emotions B) things C) reflections D) recollections

14. Lines from the “Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence” are quoted as the epigraph to:
A) The Prelude B) Ode on Intimations of Immortality
C) Dejection: An Ode D) Areopagitica

15. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an autobiographical work by:
A) Voltaire B) Rousseau C) Montesquieu D) Byron

16. The Modern Prometheus is part of the title:
A) Frankenstein B) Mysteries of Udolpho
C) Melmoth the Wanderer D) Dracula

17. Northanger Abbey is a satire on the ---------novel:
A) dramatic B) baroque C) gothic D) grotesque

18. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays and On the English Comic Writers are works by:
A) Sir Walter Scott B) William Hazlitt
C) Leigh Hunt D) Robert Southey

19. The Victorian Compromise and its Enemies is the opening chapter of The Victorian
Age in Literature by:
A) G.K. Chesterton B) Thomas Carlyle
C) Arnold Toynbee D) H.G. Wells

20. The members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were primarily:
A) poets B) painters C) musicians D) critics

21. Apologia Pro Vita Sua is a defence of the life and opinions of:
A) Charles Kingsley B) Oscar Wilde
C) A.C. Swinburne D) J.H. Newman

22. The death of Little Nell in Dickens’ novel--------is unfailingly mentioned in any
discussion of ‘Victorian sentimentality’:
A) David Copperfield B) Nicholas Nickleby
C) A Christmas Carol D) The Old Curiosity Shop

23. “--------was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had
ended his sport with Tess.” Complete the quote, choosing from the words below:
A) ‘Justice’ B) ‘Enough’ C) ‘All’ D) ‘Nothing’

24. George Bernard Shaw was one of the founders of the:
A) British Museum B) National Gallery
C) Fabian Society D) Saturday Review

25. The poetry of G.M. Hopkins was collected and published after the poet’s death by his
friend:
A) Max Brod B) Robert Bridges
C) Cardinal Newman D) Coventry Patmore

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26. “If I should die, think only this of me;/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That
is forever England.” These are lines from the poem by:
A) Wilfred Owen B) Siegfried Sassoon
C) Rupert Brooke D) Rudyard Kipling

27. Who among of the ‘Pink poets’ was named Poet Laureate:
A) Stephen Spender B) W.H. Auden
C) Cecil Day Lewis D) Louis MacNeice

28. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” is a line from a poem by:
A) W.B. Yeats B) Jules Laforgue
C) Arthur Rimbaud D) Dylan Thomas

29. The ‘first masterpiece of Modernism in English’ was:
A) The Waste Land B) Ulysses
C) Finnegan’s Wake D) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

30. Henry II’s conflict with Thomas Becket is dramatized in the play:
A) Curtmantle B) The Dark is Light Enough
C) A Yard of Sun D) Duel of Angels

31. The expression ‘The horror! The horror!’ occurs in:
A) Heart of Darkness B) The Waste Land
C) Murder in the Cathedral D) Lord Jim

32. The mother of Paul Morel in Sons and Lovers is:
A) Miriam Leivers B) Gertrude Coppard
C) Clara Dawes D) Jessie Chambers

33. Venereal disease and moral contamination are the themes of Ibsen’s play:
A) A Doll’s House B) Ghosts
C) Peer Gynt D) An Enemy of the People

34. The playwright commonly associated with ‘kitchen sink’ drama:
A) John Osborne B) Jean Anouilh
C) Arnold Wesker D) Sean O’Casey

35. The writer of The Aran Islands (1907):
A) J.M. Synge B) J.M. Murry C) G.M. Hopkins D) E.M. Forster

36. Identify the Nobel prize-winning Irish writer who was decorated for his role in
the French Resistance in World War II:
A) George Bernard Shaw B) W.B.Yeats
C) Samuel Beckett D) Seamus Heaney

37. The novel by Iris Murdoch which won the Booker Prize in 1978:
A) Under the Net B) The Bell
C) The Red and the Green D) The Sea, the Sea

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38. The author of The Buddha of Suburbia:
A) Vikram Seth B) Vikram Chandra
C) Rohinton Mistry D) Hanif Kureishi

39. “I’m Nobody! Who are you?/Are you Nobody too?” These lines are from a
poem by :
A) Anne Bradstreet B) Sarah Platt
C) Sarah Fuller D) Emily Dickinson

40. For the Union Dead (1964) is a collection of poems by:
A) Robert Frost B) Robert Lowell
C) John Crowe Ransom D) Randall Jarrell

41. In the beginning of this classic American novel Isabel Archer, the heroine, sets out for
Europe to ‘affront her destiny”:
A) The Princess Casamassima B) Daisy Miller
C) The Portrait of a Lady D) What Maisie Knew

42. The first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature was:
A) Eugene O’Neill B) Tennessee Williams
C) Arthur Miller D) Sinclair Lewis

43. ‘I speak three languages, write in/Two, dream in one.” Identify the speaker:
A) Raja Rao B) R.K. Narayan
C) Kamala Das D) Meena Alexander

44. Bakha is the protagonist of the novel:
A) Untouchable B) Coolie
C) The Cat and Shakespeare D) Kanthapura

45. The Lion and the Jewel and The Trials of Brother Jero are plays by:
A) Wole Soyinka B) Ngugi Wa Thiongo
C) Chinua Achebe D) Christopher Okigbo

46. Michael Ondaatje won the Booker prize in 1992 for the work:
A) Coming Through Slaughter B) Running in the Family
C) The English Patient D) Anil’s Ghost

47. Woman to Man (1949) and The Other Half (1966) are collections of poetry by:
A) A.D. Hope B) Judith Wright
C) Les Murray D) Jill Jones

48. Mohun Biswas is the protagonist of the 1961 novel by the Nobel laureate:
A) V.S. Naipaul B) Romain Rolland
C) Francois Mauriac D) Hermann Hesse

49. The Stone Angel (1964) is a novel by:
A) E.J. Pratt B) Sinclair Ross
C) Tomson Highway D) Margaret Laurence

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50. ‘Pure vowels’ are:
A) monophthongs B) diphthongs
C) triphthongs D) glides

51. Suprasegmetal features of speech are also called ----------features:
A) melodic B) prosodic C) functional D) nonfunctional

52. English belongs to the -------branch of the Indo-European family of languages:
A) German B) North Germanic
C) East Germanic D) West Germanic

53. The analogical creation of a new word from an existing word wrongly assumed to be
its derivative is called:
A) Allegorism B) Anthroposemiosis
C) Back-formation D) misetymology

54. The theologian who promoted the first complete translation of the Bible into English was:
A) Bishop Aldhelm B) The Venerable Bede
C) Aelfric the Grammarian D) John Wycliffe

55. The word ‘kindergarten’ was borrowed into the English vocabulary from:
A) Greek B) Latin C) Scandinavian D) German

56. The ‘full stop’ in punctuation is referred to in American English as the :
A) terminal B) terminus C) period D) pediment

57. ‘EFL’ refers to:
A) English for Foreign Learners
B) English as a First Language
C) English as a Foreign Language
D) English for Life

58. In the direct method of language teaching, the teacher unfailingly uses the:
A) link language B) vernacular
C) mother tongue D) target language

59. The author of Second Language Pedagogy who advocated task-based strategies for
language learning is:
A) V.C. Devasundaram B) N.S. Prabhu
C) I.S. Nagaraja D) T.R. Keshava Rao

60. ‘First-language interference’ refers to the persistent influence of:
A) languages of the first world B) languages of indigenous peoples
C) obsolete languages D) the mother tongue of the learners

61. Jacques Derrida’s autobiographical work was published in 1991 under the title:
A) Circumfession B) Shibboleth
C) The Post Card D) Specters of Marx

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62. The concept of ‘hybridity’ in the context of colonialism was put forward by:
A) Edward Said B) Bill Ashcroft
C) Homi K. Bhaba D) Frantz Fanon

63. For Marx and Reading Capital are the early works of:
A) Michel Foucault B) Jacques Lacan
C) Roland Barthes D) Louis Althusser

64. Semiotics has been defined as “the life of signs within society” by:
A) Noam Chomsky B) Claude Levi Strauss
C) Ferdinand de Saussure D) Charles Sanders Peirce

65. Sigmund Freud introduced the concept of Oedipus complex in his work:
A) The Interpretation of Dreams
B) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
C) Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
D) The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis

66. Who reigned at the Mermaid Tavern as dictator over a younger literary generation?
A) John Donne B) William Shakespeare
C) Ben Jonson D) John Webster

67. Which is not an elegy?
A) Lycidas B) My Last Duchess
C) Adonais D) In Memoriam

68. Who wrote Antony and Cleopatra?
A) John Dryden B) Ben Jonson
C) William Shakespeare D) George Bernard Shaw

69. Whose lines are these?
“…though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run”

A) John Donne B) P.B.Shelley C) John Keats D) Andrew Marvell

70. Arrange these plays of Shakespeare chronologically:
I) Hamlet II) The Winter’s Tale
III) Macbeth IV) The Merchant of Venice

A) III, IV, II, I B) IV, I, III, II C) I,IV,II, III D) III, II, IV, I

71. Who mentioned Shakespeare as “ an upstart crow…in his own conceit the only
Shakescene in a country”
A) Thomas Nash B) Robert Greene
C) Christopher Marlowe D) Thomas Lodge

72. The usual protagonist in a Morality Play represents:
A) Vice B) Virtue C) Everyman D) Death

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73. ------is an excellent and amusing stage piece of George Bernard Shaw which
pokes fun at the romantic conception of the soldier.
A) The Devil’s Disciple B) Caesar and Cleopatra
C) Arms and the Man D) Man and Superman

74. The Irish poet who frequently used the symbols of the moon, the swan, and Byzantium
in his poems:
A) Sean O’ Casey B) W.B.Yeats
C) J.M.Synge D) Seamus Heaney

75. -------was the first English printer
A) Reginald Peacock B) William Caxton
C) William Langland D) John Gower

76. Identify the English Romantic poet: “ ….at the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a
surgeon….however, when his poetical bent was becoming apparent, surgery lost its
slight attraction, and the career of a poet became a bright possibility when he made
the acquaintance of Leigh Hunt (1816)”
A) Robert Southey B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
C) Lord Byron D) John Keats

77. An extra ordinary pamphlet entitled------caused Shelley to be expelled from Oxford:
A) The Spirit of Solitude B) Areopagitica
C) The Cenci D) The Necessity of Atheism

78. “And murmuring of innumerable bees” is a line taken from A.L. Tennyson’s poem-----
which is a classic example for------
A) Ulysses-Apostrophe B) The Lotos Eaters- Oxymoron
C) The Princess- Onomatopoeia D) The Lady of Shalott- Onomatopoeia

79. Identify the Victorian poet:
“The requirements of his office as Poet Laureate led him to the production of a number
of occasional poems which have caused him to be described, contemptuously, as the
newspaper of his age”
A) Robert Browning B) Mathew Arnold
C) A.L.Tennyson D) Edward Fitzgerald

80. Arrange these works of Bernard Shaw chronologically:
I) Caesar and Cleopatra II) Major Barbara
III) Pygmalion IV) Mrs.Warren’s Profession

A) IV,I,II,III B) I, III, IV, II C) III, IV, I, II D) II, III, IV, I

81. T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land is dedicated to:
A) Tiresias B) Ezra Pound
C) Edmund Spenser D) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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82. Identify the poem and the poet from these hints:
a) Made a tremendous impact on the post-War generation
b) Build round the symbols of drought and flood, representing death and rebirth
c) Through out appears the figure of Tiresias
d) Ends with a reference to Brihadarnyaka Upanishad

A) T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land B) Walt Whitman’s Passage to India
C) The Cantos of Ezra Pound D) Easter,1916 of W.B.Yeats

83. The Imagist Movement was influenced by:
A) Sanskrit Drama B) Existentialism
C) Japanese Haiku D) Slapstick Comedy

84. The poem of Tennyson whose title echoes a story from Homer’s Odyssey:
A) The Princess B) The Lotos Eaters
C) In Memoriam D) Maud and Other Poems

85. -------is an extremely powerful novel written by D.H.Lawrence which studies with
great insight the relationship between son and mother.
A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover B) Sons and Lovers
C) Women in Love D) The White Peacock

86. “I am monarch of all I survey” is a line taken from a poem that shares the theme with
one of these novels. Identify the novel.
A) Gulliver’s Travels B) Robinson Crusoe
C) Rasselas D) Clarissa

87. Eric Arthur Blair is a renowned English novelist, essayist and journalist whose works
are marked by a strong opposition to totalitarianism is better known by his pen name----.
A) H.G.Wells B) James Joyce
C) George Orwell D) Aldous Huxley

88. “If I should die, think only this of me”,a popular sonnet appeared in several
anthologies was written by the War Poet:
A) Robert Graves B) Rupert Brooke
C) Wilfred Owen D) Siegfried Sassoon

89. The partly autobiographical work of Maggie and Tom Tulliver written by George Eliot
which was considered by many as her best:
A) Adam Bede
B) Silas Marner: the Weaver of Raveloe
C) The Mill on the Floss
D) Romola

90. Who is not a member of the ‘Auden group’?
A) Stephen Spender B) C. Day Lewis
C) Edith Sitwell D) Louis MacNeice

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91. Who stated the following?
“I am the poet of the body
And I am the poet of the soul…”
A) Edgar Allan Poe B) P.B.Shelley
C) Walt Whitman D) Robert Browning

92. Murder in the Cathedral deals with the death of
A) Saint Paul B) Joan of Arc
C) Saint Aquinas D) Saint Thomas Becket

93. What is the Freudian term for ‘death instinct’?
A) Eros B) Libido C) Thanatos D) Sublimation

94. Identify the author of Black Skins, White Masks
A) Edward Said B) Frantz Fanon
C) AimeCesaire D) Bill Ashcroft

95. Hamlet and Oedipus (1948) was written by:
A) Carl Jung B) Marie Bonaparte
C) Ernest Jones D) Jacques Lacan

96. “Good fences make good neighbours” appears in:
A) Robert Frost’s Birches
B) Emily Dickinson’s The Chariot
C) Robert Frost’s Mending Wall
D) Sylvia Plath’s Daddy

97. The initial sound in the word ‘hat’ is an example of:
A) a Uvular sound B) a Palatal sound
C) a Velar sound D) a Glottal sound

98. Which are not the assumptions of Structuralism?
a) It seeks the process of meaning production
b) Author is more important than Text
c) Literature is an artefact of culture
d) There is inherent connection between the word and the meaning.

A) a&c B) b&d C) b&c D) a&d

99. Identify the figure of speech:
“Not poppy nor mandragora
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou ow’dst yesterday”

A) Meiosis B) Pathetic Fallacy
C) Hyperbole D) Oxymoron

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100. When part of one word is combined with part of another in order to form a new word
carrying with it the ideas behind both the original terms is known as ------
A) Acronyms B) Telescoping
C) Portmanteau words D) False Etymology

101. On which syllable does the primary stress fall on the word ‘Political’?
A) First B) Second C) Third D) Fourth

102. Match the following consonants with their manners of articulation:
a) /k/ 1) Lateral
b) /l/ 2) Approximants
c) /h/ 3) Plosives
d) /r/ in red 4) Fricatives

A) a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1 B) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
C) a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2 D) a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2

103. The ding-dong theory is usually associated with the eminent German scholar and
philologist----
A) Richard Paget B) Harold Bloom
C) Max Mullter D) Wilhelm Wundt

104. Match the following:
a) Lilliputians 1. The giants
b) Brobdingnagians 2. The moonstruck philosophers
c) Laputans 3. The race of horses
d) Houyhnhnms 4. The pigmies

A) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3 B) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2
C) a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2 D) a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3

105. Match the names of theorists with their works:
a) Elaine Showalter 1) Sexual Politics
b) Kate Millet 2) Sorties
c) Virginia Woolf 3) The New Feminist Criticism
d) Helene Cixous 4) Three Guineas

A) a-2, b-1,c-4, d-3 B) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2
C) a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4 D) a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

106. ‘Hamartia’ literally means:
A) Purgation B) Revenge
C) Error or Judgement D) Pity

107. Is there a Text in this Class is a popular work in Reader Response Criticism written by:
A) Hans Robert Jauss B) Stanley Fish
C) Wolfgang Iser D) Terry Eagleton

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108. ‘No attempt to liberate women will be successful without an attempt to free nature’ is
argument of the theory of:
A) Marxism B) New Historicism
C) Ecofeminism D) Ecriture Feminine

109. The popularity of the slogan “The personal is political” is credited with the American
feminist:
A) Simon de Beauvoir B) Carol Hanisch
C) Virginia Woolf D) Anne Sexton

110. Which points are not applicable to Surrealism?
a) Successor to Dadaism
b) Revolt against logical reason
c) Strictly followed syntactical rules
d) Followed chronological order

A) a&c B) c&d C) b& d D) b&c

111. One of the early concepts of Marxism is that the Base ( Economic Base)
influences/determines the ------
A) Manifest content B) Hegemony
C) History D) Superstructure

112. Surrealism was launched as a concerted artistic movement in France with the
publication of Andre Breton’s------
A) History of Surrealism B) Origins of Surrealism
C) Manifesto on Surrealism D) Literary Origins of Surrealiam

113. Identify the term that is not associated to New Criticism:
A) Ambiguity B) Paradox C) Close Reading D) Trace

114. Friendship’s Garland (1871) is sequel to:
A) Culture and Anarchy B) Essays in Criticism
C) The Function of Criticism D) The Study of Poetry

115. Coromandel Fishers and Palanquin Bearers are poems by:
A) Toru Dutt B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Amrita Pritam D) Mahadevi Varma

116. Match the list of characters and works:
a. Velutha 1) Madame Bovary
b. Emma 2) The Guide
c. Penelope 3) The Odyssey
d. Rosie 4) The God of Small Things

A) a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1 B) a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2
C) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2 D) a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4

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117. Match the quotes with their authors:
a. I caught this morning morning’s minion 1. W.B. Yeats
b. The fury and the mire of human veins. 2. T.S. Eliot
c. I will show you fear in a handful of dust. 3. Wilfred Owen
d. What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? 4. G.M. Hopkins

A) a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2 B) a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3
C) a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4 D) a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2

118. Gorboduc, which was later called-----is taken as the earliest of English tragedies.
A) The Four P’s B) Ferrex and Porrex
C) Porrex and Ferrex D) Johan Johan

119. Match the following works with the corresponding writers:
a) The Spanish Tragedy 1) Ben Jonson
b) Edward II 2) John Webster
c) Bartholomew Fair 3) Thomas Kyd
d) The White Devil 4) Christopher Marlowe

A) a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2 B) a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
C) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3 D) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

120. Hamm and Clov are characters created by:
A) Samuel Beckett B) Ted Hughes
C) Alan Sillitoe D) Anthony Burgess

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